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fromThe Nation
1 day agoNo Kings Day: "It's Gonna Be Fun"-Plus, "One Battle After Another"
Saturday is the second No Kings Day, planned as the largest single day of protest in American history with over 2,000 events nationwide.
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fromVulture
2 weeks agoThis Isn't Your Typical Regina Hall
Regina Hall's inherent Regina Hall-ness - her magnetic fusion of poise and charisma - never shows in One Battle After Another. Instead of that usual charm, Hall is sober-minded and serious. As Deandra, a guerilla involved with a revolutionary sect called the French 75, she's waging war against oppression, whether that's militarized police, migrant detention camps, Christmas-worshipping white nationalists, or fascism at large.
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fromSlate Magazine
2 weeks agoThe Year's Most Acclaimed Movie Is Based on a Famous Novel, but Only Traces of It Remain
If the experience of watching One Battle is so propulsive that you leave the theater feeling like you haven't taken a breath in hours, Vineland is far more digressive, switching genres by the page, with a plot that's more varied than the relatively simple man-tries-to-rescue-daughter story of One Battle. For one thing, Vineland has significant supernatural elements, including the existence of a class of person called a Thanatoid-souls caught between life and death.
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