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Review: ‘Mo’ season 2 is a comedic reprieve in Trump’s America

Mohammed Amer’s witty comedy series connects a Palestinian American story to a larger message about immigration and displacement.
Sawyer Gouw Ranzetta, Staff Writer February 14, 2025

Warning: This review contains spoilers. The second season of the Netflix series “Mo” is one of the most surprising shows on television. I can’t think of a single show...

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Review: ‘Love Hurts’ subverts conventional Hollywood action comedy with a disappointing hero

While Ke Huy Quan presents a fresh take on the classic action hero, it struggles to create an interesting world for its characters.
Tony Jaeyeong Jeong, Staff Writer February 13, 2025

Imagine an action-comedy film about a former-assassin-turned-realtor trying to escape his past. Sprinkle that logline with high-intensity fight sequences, a hint of B-movie quirkiness...

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2 best picture nominees used AI. How should we feel?

This awards season, fans are polarized on the ethics behind incorporating generative artificial intelligence into film.
Max Vetter, Staff Writer February 12, 2025

If you care about movies, you’ve probably seen recent backlash against the use of generative artificial intelligence in best picture front-runners “The Brutalist” and “Emilia...

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Review: The future of dating is bleak in ‘Companion’

“Fresh” meets “Ex Machina” in this robotic romantic-horror film.
Amelia Knust, Staff Writer February 7, 2025

Meet Josh (Jack Quaid). He's your adorkable boy-next-door type who knocks over the fruit stand at the grocery store and makes sure to let you know that his friends do like...

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Review: ‘Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story’ brings us the unseen stories of the showbiz icon

Bruce David Klein’s documentary feels like a night at the cabaret with an old chum.
Joe Paladino, Staff Writer February 6, 2025

Liza Minnelli. The iconic triple threat. EGOT winner. Daughter of the legendary Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli, icons that paved their daughter’s own way to superstardom....

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10 movies to look out for in 2025

From Disney remakes to war reenactments, these 10 films will keep you coming back to the theater all year long.
Annie Emans, Staff Writer February 4, 2025

As Oscars season is nearing, it’s time to wave goodbye to the failures and triumphs of 2024’s film and turn our attention to the year ahead. As NYU students, it's integral...

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The case for ‘The Brutalist’

This over three-hour period epic has a lot to say. Here’s why it should sweep this year’s Oscars.
Leo Field, Staff Writer February 4, 2025

When it premiered at the Venice Film Festival last September, “The Brutalist” was hailed as the next great American epic. Even before A24 acquired Brady Corbet’s sprawling...

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Remembering David Lynch: A legacy of dreams, oddities and love

A look back on a career full of surrealist imagination that changed cinema forever.
Maggie Turner, Deputy Under the Arch Editor January 31, 2025

“I always say, the film is the thing. The film is the thing. You work so hard to get this thing built, all the elements to feel correct, the whole to feel correct, in this beautiful...

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Review: ‘I’m Still Here’ is Brazil’s anti-authoritarian message to the world

Nominated for three Academy Awards, Walter Salles’ profound family drama is just as emotionally resonant as it is politically relevant.
Leo Field, Staff Writer January 29, 2025

In trying times, political films are nothing new. One of cinema’s most essential functions is to inform its audience — to share the intricacies of another culture, another...

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Review: Season 3 of ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ couldn’t have finished faster

Mindy Kaling’s Max comedy series is undeniably funny, but the newest installment just doesn’t fit into the rest of the show.
Dani Biondi, Film & TV Editor January 29, 2025

Warning: This review contains spoilers. You can’t — and shouldn’t — get advice about college through TV shows, but that didn’t stop my 17-year-old self from obsessively...

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Inside the Boxd: Winter break watches

Inside the Boxd is a column documenting WSN staffers’ recent film reviews on Letterboxd. Grab some popcorn and get that watchlist ready!

The light at the end of a grueling, dark fall semester is a winter break free from academic responsibilities — and there’s no better replacement for lecture halls than a good...

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Review: ‘A Complete Unknown’ canonizes Bob Dylan’s cultural legacy

Cemented as a star of his generation, Timothée Chalamet electrifies the masses in his musical transformation.
Maggie Turner, Deputy Under The Arch Editor January 24, 2025

Greenwich Village, 1961. Fade in on the bohemian straggler with a cigarette in one hand and a guitar case in the other. Although born Robert Zimmerman in humble Minnesota, the...