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From Hustlers to Her Smell to Homecoming, 2019 was a great year for films about female ambition—not that you’d know…
Caroline Siede
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Contributor, The A.V. Club. Caroline Siede is a pop culture critic in Chicago, where the cold never bothers her anyway. Her interests include superhero movies, feminist theory, and Jane Austen novels.
Jan 28 2020
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The problem with This Is Us’ Big Three trilogies is that it’s really hard to find parallel stories that are equally…
Jan 27 2020
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This post discusses plot details from the latest episode of Doctor Who, “Fugitive Of The Judoon.”
Jan 27 2020
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Supergirl isn’t a show I watch for plot, which is good because “Back From The Future—Part One” doesn’t really have…
Jan 26 2020
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Premieres, finales, and specials. Those are the places where Doctor Who usually delivers massive reveals about its…
Jan 21 2020
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After last week’s terrifying cliffhanger, it’s a relief that “A Hell Of A Week: Part One” isn’t an hour-long home…
Jan 20 2020
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In the past, the Arrowverse’s big crossover events were self-contained enough that you could pretty much skip them…
Jan 19 2020
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“High-speed inventing is one of my specialisms.”
Jan 17 2020
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Since When Romance Met Comedy kicked off 2019 with an impassioned defense of Katherine Heigl and 27 Dresses, it…
Jan 14 2020
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“Light And Shadows” is an exceptionally well-acted hour of TV. That’s something of a given for This Is Us, but…
Jan 12 2020
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“Orphan 55” has all the components of a solid Doctor Who episode: An interesting sci-fi location, a quirky cast of…
Jan 5 2020
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Even more so than “Part One,” “Spyfall, Part Two” reflects the strengths and weaknesses of Chris Chibnall’s era of Do…
Jan 1 2020
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“Rule one of espionage: Trust no one.”
Dec 26 2019
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Spoiler Space
offers thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can’t disclose in our official reviews.…
Dec 20 2019
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Movies about movies usually draw back the veil on the filmmaking process, but in 2006, Nancy Meyers made a…
Dec 19 2019
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Three months into my freshman year of theater school, I found myself fake-laughing my way through a raucous parody…
Dec 9 2019
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“Holy crimson skies of death!” After a full year of anticipation, the Arrowverse’s attempt to do for small-screen…
Dec 6 2019
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Lucy Moderatz (Sandra Bullock) spends her days behind a glass window in a Chicago Transit Authority booth and her…
Dec 2 2019
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“The Wrath Of Rama Khan” feels like a solid midseason finale to a season we didn’t watch. Sure, the battle for…
Nov 22 2019
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If you’d told the average moviegoer back in 2010 that by the end of the decade people would be clamoring for the…