Latest articles by Noel Murray
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Reality TV is getting nice
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Hereditary is the best scary movie of the year
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Why is TV so obsessed with crimes from the '90s?
The Explainer On the uneasy nostalgia of Waco, American Crime Story, Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., and more
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Why Grown-ish has been 2018's best new sitcom
The Explainer Rather than putting young people under a microscope, it's letting the kids do the looking
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It's a beautiful day to talk about Mister Rogers
The Explainer Why everyone is so enamored again with Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
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Why this year's Best Picture race is a total crapshoot
The Explainer Who will win the Oscars' biggest prize this year? No one has any idea.
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The complicated history of the black superhero
The Explainer It's been a long journey to get to this particular moment in popular culture
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What the best movies of Sundance 2018 had in common
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How the biggest movies of Sundance 2018 went small
The Explainer On the microscopic introspection of America's premier film festival
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Are Molly's Game and The Post too obviously about 2017?
The Explainer How Hollywood filters history through the values of the present
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Tonya Harding's belated moment to shine
The Explainer The agony and the ecstasy of the offbeat biopic I, Tonya
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Why The Middle is TV's most underrated comedy
The Explainer For 200 episodes, the series has been consistently sharp, often laugh-out-loud funny — with something true to express about modern life. So why is it rarely counted among this TV era's elite?
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The real Justice League is on The CW
The Explainer How the "Arrowverse" breathed new life into the superhero ensemble
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Why Lady Bird is an instant-classic high school movie
The Explainer Greta Gerwig's new film is going to be the next indie hit
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Three Billboards and The Meyerowitz Stories prove that great casting makes great movies
The Explainer They're not just stocked with familiar faces. They're stocked with the right familiar faces.
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How horror TV embraced our demons
The Explainer In the new horror series on television, the real monsters are us
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The complicated poverty of The Florida Project
The Explainer This is The Little Rascals amidst ruinous poverty. And it works.
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The Toronto film festival concludes with raw truths and unexpected beauties
The Explainer From I, Tonya to The Death of Stalin, here are the most noteworthy films of the latter half of the festival
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How the Toronto International Film Festival got deadly serious
The Explainer Forget Angelenos dancing on cars. This year's festival is all about humanity on the brink.
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The Defenders blessedly abandons the super-hero backstory
The Explainer This is the best of Netflix's Marvel shows so far, and the way it just dives right into its story is how all genre TV should be
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My teen son has autism. Here's what Netflix's new dramedy Atypical gets wrong.
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Is Game of Thrones our last shared TV experience?
The Explainer Why did a fantasy show conquer television — and will it ever be repeated?
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Why streaming needs subscription bundles
The Explainer Watching your favorite shows online is getting very, very expensive — but there’s a solution, courtesy of the cable giants of yore
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10 King Arthur retellings that are even weirder than King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
The Explainer Steampunk, shmeampunk. How about King Arthur in space?
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