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One Battle After Another is about this moment in history. And every other time too.

All of the things that make the film timely really mark its timelessness, writes Emily St. James.

Leonardo DiCaprio plays a former revolutionary who just wants to save his kid without changing out of his bathrobe in One Battle After Another. (Credit: Warner Bros.)

Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson star in Ponies. They're in a vintage car, and that's really all you can tell about it.

Peacock's Ponies and when streaming enters crunch time

Plus: Damien McCarthy's horror movies, Some Like It Hot, and true fashion.

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Angel Down, Whalefall, and the phantasmagoria of manhood

Why do people love Daniel Kraus' novels? Maybe it's because he's not afraid of a big metaphor.

The cover of Beth March Returns from the Dead, cropped to just the first three words and the face of a woman covered by flowers

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Plus: The e-book of Woodworking is on sale too? Remember Woodworking?

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Peacock's Ponies and when streaming enters crunch time

Submit your September mailbag questions!

Angel Down, Whalefall, and the phantasmagoria of manhood

Preorder Emily's next novel! Save big money! Now!