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A Complete Unknown Misses the Elusive Genius of Bob Dylan

The biopic starring Timothée Chalamet is a star-is-born fable viewed with 20/20 hindsight and through rose-tinted glasses.

By Adam Nayman

 

TNR Live: Can Tourism Foster Tolerance?

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Taika Waititi’s Open-Hearted Television Empire

From What We Do in the Shadows to Interior Chinatown, Waititi has a gift for making defiantly original, rambling, rollicking, freewheeling shows.

By Phillip Maciak

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The Brutalist Pairs Modern Architecture and Postwar Trauma

The symbolism in Brady Corbet’s movie is heavier-handed than a fistful of concrete and steel.

By Andrew Marzoni

 

Joan Didion, Eve Babitz, and the Biographer Who Missed the Point

Lili Anolik’s new book sets the two writers up as rivals. But they were never in competition.

By Laura Kipnis

 

TV’s Year of Big Disappointments

Some of this year’s TV felt distinctly deflated. But the very best shows took on the subject of disappointment itself.

By Phillip Maciak

 

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Inside the Plan to Teach Robots the Laws of War

Artificial intelligence is coming to warfare. Can it learn ethics?

By Rebecca McCarthy

 

Pedro Almodóvar’s Self-Indulgent Portrait of a Woman’s Last Days

The Room Next Door is not quite willing to confront its subject in all its difficulty.

By Adam Nayman

 

After Terror Attacks, France’s Reckoning—and America’s Delayed Justice

Emmanuel Carrère chronicled the trial of the perpetrators of the November 2015 attacks on Paris. It makes a sharp contrast with the United States’ efforts at Guantanamo.

By Cora Currier

 

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