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Six Things You Are Not Allowed To Say To Me About ‘Godzilla Minus One’
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Drew Magary
December 10, 2023
Arts And Culture
Gary Oldman Is Gross And Loving It
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Soraya Roberts
December 8, 2023
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Arts And Culture
There’s So Little To Say About Taylor Swift Being Person Of The Year
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Kelsey McKinney
December 7, 2023
Arts And Culture
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who’s The Prettiest Spotify Wrapped Of Them All?
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Kelsey McKinney
November 30, 2023
TV
The ‘Squid Game’ Reality Show Is A Brutal Adaptation Of Its Source Material
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Luis Paez-Pumar
November 29, 2023
Arts And Culture
Striving And Streaming In The Desert: A Visit To TwitchCon Las Vegas
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Libby Watson
November 24, 2023
Arts And Culture
If BookTok Convinces Teens They’re Ready For Erotica, Is It My Job To Stop Them?
159
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Jackie Charniga
November 22, 2023
Arts And Culture
Art In The Middle Of Nowhere Is Still Somewhere
116
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Nicholas Russell
November 20, 2023
Defector At The Movies
Godzilla Must Be Larger
232
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Chris Thompson
November 16, 2023
Arts And Culture
Martin Scorsese’s Second Life As An Adman
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Adam Charles Hart
November 15, 2023
Arts And Culture
Local Man In His 30s Gets Really Into PinkPantheress
87
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Israel Daramola
November 15, 2023
Arts And Culture
Princess Diana Bought That Eagles Jacket Herself
126
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Dan McQuade
November 10, 2023
Arts And Culture
‘Stereophonic’ Is “The Fleetwood Mac Play” And So Much Better For It
36
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Lauren Theisen
November 8, 2023
Arts And Culture
How The Defector Staff Organizes Their Books
292
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Defector Staff
November 3, 2023
Arts And Culture
Dan And Dave Explore Another Mall
317
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Dan McQuade
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David Roth
November 1, 2023
Arts And Culture
‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Asks You To Sit With Its Contradictions
91
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Soraya Roberts
October 27, 2023
Arts And Culture
‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Is The Latest Entry In Martin Scorsese’s History Of Evil
89
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Israel Daramola
October 26, 2023
Arts And Culture
‘The Golden Bachelor’ Turns Grief Into Joy
142
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Alex Sujong Laughlin
October 25, 2023
Music
You Too Can Score Cheap On The Open Market For Dead People’s (Hammond) Organs
92
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Dave McKenna
October 22, 2023
Arts And Culture
Charles Bissell Has Finally Moved On From The Wrens
42
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Robert Rubsam
October 20, 2023
Defector At The Movies
The Survival Of Independent Cinema Begins With The Belief Of Those Who Make It
14
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Corey Atad
October 20, 2023
Into The Woods
In ‘Under The Skin’, The Woods Are The Final Isolation
59
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Luis Paez-Pumar
October 20, 2023
Defector Music Club
Defector Music Club Gets Lost In Sleater-Kinney’s ‘The Woods’
138
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Israel Daramola
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Giri Nathan
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Patrick Redford
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David Roth
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Lauren Theisen
October 19, 2023
Defector Reads A Book
Defector Reads A Book Is Getting Low-Key Parasocial With It
28
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Patrick Redford
October 19, 2023
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Aparna Nancherla Is My Favorite Impostor
29
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Soraya Roberts
October 18, 2023
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