Many of this year’s most notable shows swam in a sea of raw trauma and psychic violence. |
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Cord Jefferson’s film starring Jeffrey Wright skewers American publishing—and its main character. |
The events of 2023 showed that A.I. doesn’t need to be that good in order to do damage. |
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{{/if}} Benny Safdie, Nathan Fielder, and Emma Stone take social awkwardness to the most painful levels TV has ever seen. |
Yorgos Lanthimos’s film, starring Emma Stone, is his least brutal, least original work to date. |
Bradley Cooper’s biopic never really captures Leonard Bernstein’s passion for music. |
A far-from-exhaustive guide to the books that our writers and editors enjoyed in 2023 |
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Experience Ireland and Northern Ireland through a unique “dual narrative” perspective, with Catholic and Protestant tour guides sharing their communities’ histories and stories. You’ll enrich your understanding of the conflict’s personal nature, while gaining insight into how peace was built and the hard work so many are still doing to sustain it today. |
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