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How Materialists pays homage to - and inverts - The Apartment

Celine Song's new "romcom" shares a lot of DNA with Billy Wilder's classic dramedy.

It's been a second since I was on the dating scene, but my understanding is that you can find a Pedro Pascal or Dakota Johnson fairly easily. (Credit: A24)

The eternal, beautiful stasis of the twentysomething hangout sitcom

Plus: The Love Hypothesis, Never After Dark, and dunking on Peppermint Patty.

"Caution" written in spray paint around a broken section of concrete sidewalk

How to make a movie with John Wilson

Carolyn Wang — making their Episodes debut! — on what makes John Wilson's films humane in an age of artificiality.

A bunch of French people stand in a field and make faces that feel vaguely like your college theater department doing promo shots for the local newspaper.

Meet the next TV series we're recapping: A French Village

The series follows a small French town during and after the Nazi occupation of France.

Elizabeth (Keri Russell), a blue-eyed woman in a curly, brown-haired wig, places a hand against a train window, looking outside it in shock

What really came to an end in The Americans' finale

Was "START" where the so-called "golden age of TV" finally closed up shop?

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The eternal, beautiful stasis of the twentysomething hangout sitcom

How to make a movie with John Wilson

Meet the next TV series we're recapping: A French Village

What really came to an end in The Americans' finale