It’s not every day you hear the phrase “that Claire Denis movie was pretty funny.” But her latest, Let the Sunshine In, could be described that way. The legendary French director’s 12th feature film is an adaptation of sorts of French theorist Roland Barthes’s 1977 collection A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments,
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Chance the Rapper is sorry. After wading into the Kanye West–Trump debate on Twitter with the controversial stance that West can support whomever he wants, even Donald Trump, the president then proceeded to make Chances’s tweets all about him. On Friday, Trump tweeted his thanks for what he perceived to
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When Bill Cosby was found guilty on all three counts of aggravated indecent sexual assault yesterday, a flood of questions followed, particularly, what happens next for the comedian? In many ways this case and the subsequent verdict is breaking new territory. Cosby is the first famous man accused of sexual
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Janelle Monáe wrote a new national anthem. Not a “sort of” national anthem, or a “kinda” national anthem — not just a song generally understood to be infused with empowerment and freedom, a song that could fit someone’s American ideal. The finale of Dirty Computer, Monáe’s third studio album, is
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Warning: This post contains one minor spoiler for Avengers: Infinity War.There are many actors who treasure their time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And then there’s Hugo Weaving, whose experience was more … fine. Though his stint as Red Skull, the villain of 2011’s Captain America, came with a multi-picture
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The writer-director Olivier Assayas found his voice in his fifth feature, a high-strung teenage love story called Cold Water that was released in 1994 in France but not, until now, in the United States. You’ll understand why midway through, when the film is suddenly flooded with the kind of classic
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“North of the Border” is something like a tiny road movie: Earn, Al, Darius, and Tracy take a cross-state trip to play a college show in the boonies. The result is as mortifying and surreal as you would expect — and it’s also the last thing Al needs after his
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NBC, which will air the 2018 Emmy Awards, is doubling down on its own talent (see, it’s a pun). Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update anchors and co-co-head writers Michael Che and Colin Jost will host this year’s TV awards show together, which will be executive-produced by SNL head honcho Lorne
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