Latest articles by Andy Crump
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Is Daniel Radcliffe trying to make us hate him?
The Explainer Why does he keep picking such awful characters?
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First Cow is a necessary portrait of platonic male affection
The Explainer This film offers a glimpse at what manhood looked like two centuries ago
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Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is about truly being seen by another
feature "Is that how you see me?"
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All good things must end, even The Good Place
opinion The show is stepping beyond the big green door to its final rest
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The best horror film of 2019 is secretly about toxic masculinity
The Explainer What Daniel Isn't Real gets right about the demons of manhood
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Mister America is a mockumentary that feels unsettlingly real
The Explainer Sometimes satire can hit too close to home
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The Day Shall Come and the myth of the black nationalist terrorist
The Explainer How Christopher Morris' new film hauntingly illustrates existential black American terror
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Paolo Sorrentino's Loro is the perfect film for our lying times
feature Fake news comes to the big screen
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What Ad Astra reveals about Brad Pitt's relationship with his dad
The Explainer There may be more to this film than meets the eye
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The cruelty of indifference
opinion What I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians says about our own apathy
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Nightmare Cinema shows off the true range of the horror genre
The Explainer Horror can be bleak and brutal, nihilistic to a fault, but it can be heart-wrenching, uproarious, unsettling, mournful, and just plain old weird
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters is an unlikely climate change movie
The Explainer How the iconic monster evolved from antagonist to eco-hero
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Chris Pine and a banner year for male nudity
The Explainer On the importance of a male movie star baring all
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How Dan Stevens got weird
The Explainer If Stevens' choice in roles since leaving Downton Abbey sends any message, it's that he'd like you to think of him as more than Prince Charming
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Robert Redford's last role is a dazzling film with a simple message: Do what makes you happy
The Explainer The Old Man & the Gun injects surprising heart into the standard cops-and-robbers flick
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The empty rage of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9
opinion The activist documentarian is all performative grandstanding
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Let the Corpses Tan is an exhausting movie. That's what makes it great.
The Explainer Directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani thumb their noses at the idea that once a moment passes, it's gone for good
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Only Spike Lee could have made BlacKkKlansman
The Explainer A film as brazenly, bluntly, unapologetically entertaining as BlacKkKlansman could only be made by a filmmaker as brazen, blunt, and unapologetic as Lee
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In Damsel, it's the men who are in distress
The Explainer With cutting dialogue and some bloody slapstick, the Zellner brothers put masculinity through the wringer
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How Ocean's 8 succeeded where Ghostbusters went wrong
The Explainer Ocean's 8 doesn't pretend to be original. That's a good thing.
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The world-burning of Michael B. Jordan
The Explainer In Fahrenheit 451 and beyond, the acclaimed young actor is ready to burn it all down
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Why Iron Man was the most pivotal movie of the last decade
The Explainer Too bad most people have forgotten why
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How Wes Anderson sneaks stop-motion animation into every film he makes
The Explainer Wes Anderson doesn't want to be a filmmaker. He wants to be an animator.
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