Daddy Issues
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Empire State of Mind
If the anthem were transubstantiated into a hat, it would be New York or Nowhere.
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Diamond Jubilee
Their proof that good work still finds people, even off streaming entirely.
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Free Guy
Dredged up while casting Taika Waititi in the inevitable Alex Karp biopic.
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Fruitvale Station
The homework movie you make yourself watch at altitude, and bawl anyway.
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Death Wish
Held up as the seventies vigilante picture made well enough to trouble you.
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Dirty Harry
Eastwood's version of the same bargain: your blood runs hot, then you feel bad.
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Triumph of the Will
The comparison reached for once the new vigilante film's politics are on the table.
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Veep
Armie Hammer's apology tour described as something lifted straight from the show.
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Death of a Salesman
Seen on Broadway the night before, and not a dry eye in the theater.
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Jane Eyre
Among the classics assigned at fifteen, when SparkNotes and cigarettes came first. Brian Park
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Pride and Prejudice
Wasted on a teenager who had other things on his mind. Brian Park
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The Invite
Two couples, one apartment, and a movie they think chickens out at the crucial moment.
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The People Upstairs
The Spanish original quietly sitting underneath Olivia Wilde's remake.
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Vanilla Sky
A sexually formative memory for someone who has still never watched it.
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Kramer vs. Kramer
The mid budget adult drama they miss, the kind you argue about afterward.
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Named, names slightly scrambled, as grown up cinema about grown up trouble.
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The White Lotus
Credited with carving out room for adult shows that generate discourse.
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Primal Fear
Sending Brian back to Edward Norton's altar boy breakout, opposite Richard Gere.
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The Great Gatsby
Paired with Miller as high school reading that quietly says the dream is rotten.