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Noel Murray
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Lives in Arkansas, writes about movies, TV, music, comics, and more. Bylines in The A.V. Club, The Week, The Verge, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone.
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If you liked the first season, the next six episodes of this beautifully silly HBO show offers more of the same……
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The movie features three strange and sometimes beautiful stories, all set in the same messed-up house.
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The ambitious feature comes from Oscar-nominated anime director Mamoru Hosoda
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The Paramount Network drama gets more weekly viewers than most network shows, but it doesn't generate many…
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The documentary illustrates, in close to real time, how people spin upsetting news into something that matches their…
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Maggie Gyllenhaal adapts Elena Ferrante’s novel into a taut psychological thriller
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This plodding story about a college players' boycott runs a trick play on the audience
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