Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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The best Star Wars movie is The Ewok Adventure
opinion Forget The Last Jedi. Disdain The Empire Strikes Back. It's all about the Ewoks.
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The Disaster Artist is a hilarious tribute to a terrible movie
The Explainer This is James Franco at his best
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Matt Lauer and Garrison Keillor were fired before we knew why. Good.
opinion The "trial by media" has been essential in getting corporations to take sexual harassment as seriously as they claim to
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How The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel re-imagines the stand-up show
The Explainer Amy Sherman-Palladino's new show brilliantly trumps comedy's favorite clichés
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8 big questions we need to ask ourselves in the wake of America's sexual assault reckoning
The Explainer Is real change possible?
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Search Party takes delicious pleasure in millennial guilt
The Explainer What happens when a group of characters whose lifestyle is almost pathologically confessional have to cover something up?
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Justice League: So much potential, so little payoff
The Explainer Despite a stellar cast, this ungainly juggernaut misses the mark
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Back is Peep Show for the age of Brexit
feature British comedy duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb return in a new series that's both serious and unexpectedly funny
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The myth of the male bumbler
opinion How manipulative men use one of our culture's most muscular myths — that men are clueless — and weaponize it into an alibi
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How Kellyanne Conway became the greatest spin doctor in modern American history
opinion How does she do it? Let's examine faux frankness, ice queening, cool girling, impatience signaling, and more of Conway's go-to strategies.
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President Trump is not a hypocrite. He's something much worse.
opinion Trump cares more about his ego than the wellbeing of America. That is deeply troubling.
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Walking away from Louis C.K.
opinion As a huge fan of his work, I naively hoped the rumors weren't true. But it's time to stop pretending.
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Why Lady Dynamite only feels like a simulacrum of a Maria Bamford show
The Explainer If you're a fan of Maria Bamford, there's something just slightly off about her Netflix show. And the reason is clear: It's not really her show.
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How Murder on the Orient Express murders Agatha Christie
The Explainer At least it's pretty?
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Ignore the name. SMILF is a masterpiece.
The Explainer Frankie Shaw — who writes, directs, produces, stars in, and serves as showrunner — is a quadruple threat
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The sexual assault backlash is coming. Here's how to respond.
The Explainer The tide will soon turn against the victims, like it always does
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In defense of Suburbicon
The Explainer George Clooney's new movie is better than you've heard. Here's why.
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The smartest sex scene on television
The Explainer Outlander nailed the big reunion between Jaime and Claire
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The nourishing radicalism of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin
opinion If you're looking for something healthy in a media landscape that sometimes feels poisonous, watch them
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Weinstein and the women who 'benefited'
opinion Sexual assault is never a mutually beneficial business transaction
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Tom Hanks wrote a book. It is not great.
The Explainer In his new compilation of short stories, America's Everyman tries to cosplay as the normal guy he'll never be
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Marshall is not the film you think it is
The Explainer Despite all appearances to the contrary, it is not a biopic of Thurgood Marshall
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The self-aware legacy of Friends
feature How the end of Matt LeBlanc's Episodes closes the door on the Friends era of gossip, fame, and meta-spinoffs
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Meryl Streep 'truthers' are a distraction from America's Harvey Weinstein problem
opinion It's very possible some people didn't know about Harvey Weinstein's decades of harassment allegations. Here's why.
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