This review originally ran during the Cannes Film Festival.Everybody Knows opens with a whirlwind introduction to a sprawling Spanish family, introducing sisters, in-laws, nieces and nephews so breathlessly you may feel the urge to make a diagram. At the wedding they’ve gathered for, videographers fly a drone camera high over
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Trans women have claimed The Matrix as an allegory for gender transition since at least 2012, when Lana Wachowski publicly came out as a trans woman while doing press for the film Cloud Atlas. (Her sister Lilly followed suit in 2016.) The symbolism is easy to find: Thomas Anderson’s double
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It all started the way most fashion trends do today: with a memo from Kanye West. Sometime in early 2017, the rapper turned designer sent his wife, Kim Kardashian, “a whole email [saying], like, ‘You cannot wear big glasses anymore. It’s all about tiny little sunglasses,’” she recalled on an
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An all-new Shaft reboot is upon us, complete with the addition of a new, third Shaft: John “J.J.” Shaft III is the MIT-educated cybersecurity expert played by Creed II’s Jessie Usher who reunites with his estranged father, Samuel L. Jackson’s John Shaft II. And in case that’s not enough Shaft
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Celebrities, they’re just like us. They grocery shop; they pick up their kids from school; they livetweet the State of the Union Address.The SOTU was broadcast last night, with the Democratic response given by Stacey Abrams. The first black woman to give the SOTU rebuttal, Abrams made waves last year
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Our favorite late-night segment, “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell,” returned to Late Night With Seth Meyers last night, and you should definitely treat yourself to a break today by checking it out. As usual, Meyers took the back seat while writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel delivered all the punch lines
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Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a portrait of a world that, while it hasn’t quite disappeared, has certainly faded somewhat. The movie’s vision of 1991 New York is familiar, thanks in part to Seinfeld reruns, but it’s also a reminder of how much the city has changed
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In a pivot to utter humility, beard-growth, and softness, actor, director, and Lady Bird stan Bradley Cooper sat down with Oprah on Tuesday afternoon for a SuperSoul Conversation. Among Cooper’s super soul-baring reveals: how he reacted to not scoring an Oscar nomination for directing A Star Is Born. “I was with
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