Latest articles by Lili Loofbourow
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Westworld is globalizing
The Explainer The show's boundaries are blurring: not just for the park, but for the bodies and personalities within them
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Thanos is America
opinion On the troubling American paternalism of Avengers: Infinity War
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The mysterious Christian symbolism of Westworld
The Explainer Who is Judas?
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The lessons of Bill Cosby's dizzying downfall
opinion Bill Cosby is finished. But real change has only just begun.
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Killing Eve's lethal femininity
The Explainer Let's talk about hair, clothes, and murder
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Westworld is playing a new game
The Explainer Look who's having fun now
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The 15 biggest questions going into Westworld's second season
The Explainer Why did Walter need more milk?
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Legion is finally starting to make sense
The Explainer The show's second season, while no less weird than the first, is done playing coy
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Silicon Valley is better without T.J. Miller
The Explainer The fifth season proves Miller was only holding the series' terrific ensemble back
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The brutal referendum of Paterno
The Explainer The real star of this HBO movie is our habit of not-knowing about rape
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How Chappaquiddick rewrites the Great Man Tragedy
The Explainer John Curran's new film is a revealing interrogation of Ted Kennedy
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The emptiness of Ready Player One
The Explainer Steven Spielberg's latest movie is clear about the various cinematic universes it references. But its moral universe? That's a different story.
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The Americans is still the best show on television
The Explainer The first episode in the show's final season delivers
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The new Roseanne is unexpectedly good
The Explainer How the reboot skillfully navigates its extremely difficult premise
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Lost on Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs
The Explainer The director's new movie is gorgeous to look at. Otherwise, it's a mess.
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The biggest liar of The Assassination of Gianni Versace
The Explainer Why, it's the show itself of course. And that's okay.
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A Wrinkle in Time isn't very good. That's okay.
opinion This movie is a beautiful mess. Please don't take any political or cultural lessons from that.
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Jessica Jones' second season might be even better than the first
The Explainer The show's revisionist theory of superheroism deepens
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Frances McDormand's cryptic Oscars speech could start a revolution in Hollywood
The Explainer With two powerful words, she told her fellow actors how to weaponize their own contracts to demand diversity and equality
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Will the #MeToo movement upend the Oscars' red carpet charade?
The Explainer What if this year, people talk about stuff that actually matters, instead of what people are wearing?
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Bewildered in Atlanta
The Explainer On the purposeful indifference of the second season of Donald Glover's acclaimed series
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Heather Graham's #MeToo comedy needs to be taken seriously
The Explainer It's an incisive, semi-autobiographical send-up of how women survive Hollywood
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Fifty Shades and the secret compromises of women
opinion There's a reason this retrograde fantasy is so popular
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Inside Black Panther's all-black universe
The Explainer This movie is a conversation between black people — and that's what makes it so good
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