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Optimizing Ourselves to Death
On designer babies in the age of Prometheus
Aug 20 • 
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Marriage in Ten Movies
Portraits of sorrow and love
Jun 10 • 
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Something Real
On Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain
Mar 13 • 
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Straight to the Heart
When Disney met David Lynch
Jan 19 • 
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We Are the Beast
In Am I Racist? Matt Walsh learns more than he wanted to know
Sep 23, 2024 • 
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The Best Pictures of 2023
An Oscars roundup
Mar 10, 2024 • 
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The Hope of the World
On Meet John Doe and how the West lost its faith
Dec 25, 2023 • 
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All Our Guilty Stains
On Nolan's Oppenheimer
Aug 21, 2023 • 
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"Based On a True Story"
Truth and myth in Sound of Freedom
Jul 18, 2023 • 
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At the Movies: And the Band Played On (1993)
A disaster revisited
Jul 1, 2023 • 
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At the Movies: Victim (1961)
Revisiting a minor classic
Jun 7, 2023 • 
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Holy Week Viewing: A Calvary in Orissa
The passion of Graham Staines
Apr 6, 2023 • 
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