Movie Review

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B-
Let The Sunshine In pairs a great director with a great star, but words cloud their chemistry
C+
Alia Shawkat tries to fast-forward through courtship in the hipster sex comedy Duck Butter 
C+
Infinity War is just way too much movie for one Avengers movie

Comics

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B+
Italian comics master Manuele Fior plays with form and style in the enormously entertaining Blackbird Days
B+
Action Comics #1000 is a powerful tribute to Superman’s enduring legacy
A-
The 50-year-old cult classic TV show The Prisoner is revived in a wild and weird comic

Book Review

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D
The most shocking thing about James Comey’s book is how much it sucks
D
The Elizas is a belly flop of a thriller from the author of Pretty Little Liars
D
The Female Persuasion convinces no one of anything

Music

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A Perfect Circle, Sting & Shaggy, and more albums to know about this week
Manic Street Preachers, A Place To Bury Strangers, and more albums to know about this week
B
Cardi B fulfills the promise of “Bodak Yellow” on Invasion Of Privacy

Atlanta

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B
Season 2
Van has fake people showing fake love to her in a very Atlanta New Year's Eve
A
Season 2
With Darius behind the wheel, Atlanta becomes an American horror story

Game Review

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God Of War's rebirth makes time for introspection among unmatched spectacle
A Way Out’s prison-break story shanks itself before it can even make it out of the yard
The quietly brilliant Into The Breach mashes-up chess with robot-on-kaiju action

Game in Progress

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Far Cry 5
Far Cry 5’s nihilistic ending tries to take the rest of the game down with it
Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
Ni No Kuni 2’s final hours bring a conventional ending to an unconventional RPG
Far Cry 5
Far Cry 5's lackluster second act gets too high on its own supply

Uncategorized

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C
Paterno fumbles college football’s biggest scandal
Wye Oak, Eels, and more albums to know about this week
The Voidz, The Vaccines, and more albums to know about this week

Lore

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C+
Pre-air
Lore could stand to have some more folklore, frankly

Spielberg

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C+
Pre-Air
HBO’s Spielberg is a wide-ranging, but inessential portrait of one of America’s most popular artists   

DVD Review

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A
With Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick shot a brilliant satire like a straight thriller
B+
Fantastic Planet looks as strange today as it must have 40 years ago
B+
Jean Renoir’s path to greatness began with La Chienne

Comedy

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B+
Wyatt Cenac’s latest album finds the funny in world-weariness
B-
Taylor Negron isn’t exactly himself on this posthumous collection
B+
On Effable, Guy Branum imbues observational humor with personal pain

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