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Brandy Jensen

Arts And Culture

Martin Mull Was A Good Painter And A Great Documentary Subject

Imran Zaidi

Aaron Sorkin Wants To Pretend The Good Guys Won

Osita Nwanevu

‘Digger’ Is Smug, Cynical, And Perfectly Timed

Sohini Desai

‘Barbara Forever’ Won’t Let You Forget

Kelsey McKinney

nathan fielder and elizabeth holmes sit on either side of a couch, staring into each other's eyes

Good Art Is Worth Waiting For

Kathryn Xu

Director Matt Reeves speaks with the logo from his movie "The Batman" in the background during the “The State of the Industry” and Neon Studio presentation.

This Is So Stupid

It’s Normal To Have Watched ‘The Batman’ Roughly Eight Times

Rafaela Bassili

The Great Outdoors

Another Mountaineering Documentary That Asks: What Is Wrong With These People?

Books

Defector At The Movies

Music

Lauren Theisen

a small green bridge with a road for cars and a walking path

Book Excerpts That Don't Suck

A Search For Movie History In Upstate New York

Sophie Abromowitz

Accept The Expanding Ball Of Infected Corpses You Cannot Change

Sarah Hagi

Finally, A Shitty Movie Where Muslims Are The Bad Guys

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<p>Robert Rubsam writes fiction and nonfiction. His work has appeared in the NYT Magazine, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Baffler, and Liberties. He is a contributing writer for Commonweal Magazine.</p>
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Robert Rubsam

Two Indie Action Films, One Clear Winner


<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="http://Feldman.cool" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Brian Feldman</a> is a software engineer living in Brooklyn.</p>


Brian Feldman

New yorkers throw garbage at the green goblin from the Queensboro bridge

How An Unsubtle 9/11 Tribute Was Added To Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’