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Andy Crump

Contributing Writer

Boston-based culture writer Andy Crump has been writing about film and television online since 2009. You can follow him on Twitter and find his collected writing at his personal blog. He is composed of roughly 65 percent craft beer.

Daniel Radcliffe.

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Analysis

Is Daniel Radcliffe trying to make us hate him?

First Cow.

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Analysis

First Cow is a necessary portrait of platonic male affection

Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

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Feature

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is about truly being seen by another

The Good Place.

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Opinion

All good things must end, even The Good Place

Daniel Isnt Real.

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Analysis

The best horror film of 2019 is secretly about toxic masculinity

Mister America.

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Analysis

Mister America is a mockumentary that feels unsettlingly real

The Day Shall Come.

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Analysis

The Day Shall Come and the myth of the black nationalist terrorist

Loro.

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Feature

Paolo Sorrentino's Loro is the perfect film for our lying times

Brad Pitt.

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Analysis

What Ad Astra reveals about Brad Pitt's relationship with his dad

Hitler and Antonescu.

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Opinion

The cruelty of indifference

A scene from Nightmare Cinema.

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Analysis

Nightmare Cinema shows off the true range of the horror genre

Godzilla.

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Analysis

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is an unlikely climate change movie

Chris Pine.

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Analysis

Chris Pine and a banner year for male nudity

Dan Stevens.

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Analysis

How Dan Stevens got weird

Robert Redford.

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Analysis

Robert Redford's last role is a dazzling film with a simple message: Do what makes you happy

Michael Moore.

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Opinion

The empty rage of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9

A shot from Let the Corpses Tan.

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Analysis

Let the Corpses Tan is an exhausting movie. That's what makes it great.

Director Spike Lee talks to John David Washington, who stars as Detective Ron Stallworth BlacKkKlansman

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Analysis

Only Spike Lee could have made BlacKkKlansman

Robert Pattinson.

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Analysis

In Damsel, it's the men who are in distress

The cast of Oceans 8.

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Analysis

How Ocean's 8 succeeded where Ghostbusters went wrong

Michael B. Jordan.

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Analysis

The world-burning of Michael B. Jordan

Iron Man.

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Analysis

Why Iron Man was the most pivotal movie of the last decade

A scene from 'Isle of Dogs.'

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Analysis

How Wes Anderson sneaks stop-motion animation into every film he makes