movies

Nickel Boys, No Other Land, and how to put a memory onscreen

How two very different movies capture the way we remember horrible things.

Nickel Boys' first-person conceit means there's only this one shot with both protagonists in it. (Credit: Amazon/MGM)

Jane Schoenbrun's new film is about a very common trans experience. And a very common human experience too.

It's Eschaton time!! (Oh, and also David Foster Wallace predicts Trump.)

"Hedwig wasn't a window into another world; it was a portal back to myself."

This week: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Spider-Man, and the Winnie-the-Pooh hot takes you've been waiting for.

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