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An awkward dad unravels after he’s unfriended.The new comedy that gives Tim Robinson his first lead film role “feels exactly right for exactly right now,” said Amy Nicholson in the Los Angeles Times. Thanks to his sketch show, I Think You Should Leave, he has become “the poster boy for male social a...
Guy Ritchie is channeling his inner Spielberg. In this star-studded new feature, the British director trades ultraviolent gangster clashes for Indiana Jones–style adventure. John Krasinski and Natalie Portman co-star as siblings hunting down art masterpieces around the world to piece together clues ...
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by Amanda HessAmanda Hess is “exceptionally skilled at noticing things worth seeing,” said Meghan Cox Gurdon in The Wall Street Journal. In her new book, a hybrid of memoir and social critique, the New York Times critic at large recounts what it’s like to experience pregnancy and childbirth in our w...
The political scientist who coined the term ‘soft power’Joseph Nye believed that what helped the world helped America. A leading architect of U.S. foreign policy for six decades, he outlined this vision in one of the most enduring books in political science, 1990’s Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature...
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