Latest articles by Jesse Hassenger
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Solo marks Star Wars' return to sleaze
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Is this really the end of the Avengers?
The Explainer On the infinite finale that is Avengers: Infinity War
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The tween mistakes of Rampage and Truth or Dare
The Explainer Rampage is a movie for 12-year-old boys seemingly made by 12-year-old boys. Truth or Dare is a movie for 12-year-old girls seemingly also made by 12-year-old boys.
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Pacific Rim: Uprising is proof that sequels are running amok
The Explainer How many people were really yearning for a followup to the middling original?
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How Melissa McCarthy became one of Hollywood's biggest stars
The Explainer It's time to give the comedian the credit she deserves
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The Oscars' weirdest phenomenon
The Explainer Why does the Academy Awards almost always insist on pairing Best Director with Best Picture?
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Why isn't Rachel McAdams a superstar?
The Explainer Hollywood is wasting her old-fashioned star power
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Why January is secretly the best month for movies about ghosts
The Explainer Yes, even better than October
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Is Phantom Thread funny?
The Explainer On the indiscernible humor of Paul Thomas Anderson
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The Last Jedi finally gives Star Wars fauna its due
The Explainer Porgs, and fathiers, and vulptices, oh my!
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Guillermo del Toro is not profound
The Explainer Everyone thinks his adult fantasies are deep. Everyone is wrong.
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What the hell is Mel Gibson doing in Daddy's Home 2?
The Explainer I watched this abusive bigot star in a Christmas comedy so you don't have to
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Thor: Ragnarok is not a normal Marvel movie
The Explainer This is an auteur's film
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Happy Death Day is yet another riff on Groundhog Day. How did this happen?
The Explainer On watching the same narrative over and over until Hollywood gets it right
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Ben Stiller's never-ending midlife crisis
The Explainer Brad's Status is the actor's fourth midlife crisis movie since 2010, but that doesn't mean he stopped growing professionally
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The juvenile perspective of It
The Explainer How the new film ditched the adults in Stephen King's novel — and the horror
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Logan Lucky reminds us why we love heist movies
The Explainer Steven Soderbergh knows how to make the off-kilter details of an elaborate robbery feel very satisfying
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Ingrid Goes West is the anti-internet movie we needed
The Explainer It's simply too empathetic and funny to be dismissed as technophobic
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How SNL-alum comedies went from blockbusters to indie darlings
The Explainer Forget Corky Romano. Brigsby Bear and Landline are more Sundance than mall multiplex.
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The delirious excess of Valerian
The Explainer Luc Besson's new space adventure is even trippier than The Fifth Element
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The domestication of War for the Planet of the Apes
The Explainer What was lost when the Planet of the Apes series got good
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Like most romantic comedies now, The Big Sick puts its female lead in a coma
The Explainer Kumail Nanjiani's new movie is in the Judd Apatow tradition
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Why Transformers 5 is worth cherishing
The Explainer It's not very good. But it is very rare.
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How Tom Cruise's career got mummified
The Explainer Why does the star of Jerry Maguire and Magnolia only appear in action movies now?
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