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Thirty-four days before prison, Elizabeth Holmes lets a camera see everything.
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A design essay on Marie Antoinette: how Milena Canonero's Oscar-winning costumes tell the story Sofia Coppola's dialogue does not, from the border tent to the Petit Trianon.
Yes, it is a documentary. What in Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes film is real footage, what is reconstructed with Amanda Seyfried, and whether it is scripted or funny.
Fjord is inspired by the 2015 Bodnariu case in Norway, but Cristian Mungiu says it is not a reenactment. What is real, what he invented, and what the film leaves open.
Sunrise on the Reaping is set 24 years before The Hunger Games, at Haymitch's Games. The timeline, the characters you know, and whether to rewatch first.
Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder, and why closeness can feel like knowing a person.
Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner, and the children every argument is made for.
How Dune: Part Two ends, where Paul, Chani and Jessica stand, and the seventeen-year jump before Dune: Part Three opens December 18.
Dune: Part Three is partly shot on IMAX film, with 71 minutes made for the taller frame. What each screen shows and how to find real IMAX 70mm before December 18.
Marvel's fifteen-title Countdown to Avengers: Doomsday list, what it sets up, and why the film opens December 18 on every premium screen except IMAX.
Elizabeth Holmes lets a camera see everything, and the filmmaker starts to look like his subject. Alex Gigler on You Can See Everything.
Chris Hansen, To Catch a Predator, and a hunter who needs the monster he hunts. Alex Gigler on Primetime.
A small lie about snow chains, a world that never stops to think, and a film too fast to think inside. Alex Gigler on Resident Evil.
A design essay on Amy Holden Jones's 1982 slasher: the killer dressed as the Marlboro Man, the girls dressed as athletes, and a film that keeps scrambling who is supposed to be looking.
A mute actress, a nurse who cannot stop talking, and the self that forms between them. Alex Gigler reads Bergman's Persona.
Tarantino loves the past too much to mourn it, so he burns the future that replaced it. A psychoanalytic reading by Alex Gigler.
Sophie commits the betrayal of becoming real, and Frances has to survive separateness. Alex Gigler on the psychology of becoming a person.
The Wild Robot A robot sets out to raise a gosling. A fox, a flock, and a whole island get caught up in the work.
Moana Beyond the reef, a girl and a demigod discover how much becoming yourself has to do with other people.
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain In a grandmother’s gift and a young woman’s devotion, Amélie finds reasons to love a world she is just beginning to understand.
The Invite Olivia Wilde's funny, unnerving chamber piece turns one apartment into a study of desire, resentment, and what it takes to let another person surprise you again.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day review: Peter builds an inhibitor to suppress his own biology, and the film makes suppression the plot.
The show is watching the parents too. On play, visible repair, and the security that lets a child try again.
The Trojan Horse weaponized trust, and the damage runs through monsters, marriage, kingship, and memory. Scored after two theatrical viewings.
Screen time, friendship, and the difference between being reachable and being known.
Antoine Fuqua's Michael Jackson biopic is a repressed film about a repressed man: the music is extraordinary, and the truth was edited out.
Our inaugural TVI Kids Essential. One of the most psychologically precise films about grief and recovery ever made.
The musical that lies about God to tell the truth about people.
A children's series running a four-element developmental architecture across sixty-one episodes.
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