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    Alex Garland Honestly Doesn’t Know If Civil War Is Irresponsible“I do sometimes think there’s a part of me that is thoughtful and there’s a part of me that is delinquent.”
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Giancarlo Esposito Finds Elegance in Every Bad GuyThe Gentleman and Parish are giving one of Hollywood’s greatest journeymen his long-deferred shot at antihero stardom.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    A Royale LineageThe Carol Burnett Show inspired her career. Now Kristen Wiig is starring in a TV show with her hero.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    J.B. Smoove on Being Curb’s Biggest Fan Turned Star“My wife always told me, ‘You’re going to be on that show one day.’”
    By Jason Diamond
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    ‘We Suck. And We Know It. So We Keep Trying.’Best Actress Oscar Winner Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos explain what makes collaborations like Poor Things work so well.
    By Rachel Handler
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    The Action Sofia Boutella Wants to SeeThe busiest woman in genre film is asking writers and editors to treat her face-smashing characters as seriously as she does.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Vince Staples Is Just Happy to Be HereWhether it’s making music or his new Netflix series, the rapper only wants to connect people.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    Holt McCallany Saw His Own Father in The Iron ClawOn coming full circle from his Lights Out days, empathizing with Fritz Von Erich, and the scenes left on the cutting-room floor.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Gus Van Sant’s Maysles MasqueradeThe director imagined a reality where the brothers documented — then scrapped — footage of the Black and White Ball for Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Victoria Monét Was Built for ThisThe Grammy-winning songwriter has been on the cusp of stardom for years. Jaguar II should change that.
    By Evan Nicole Brown
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    Ex-Lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, ReunitedTwenty years after their breakup, the Taste of Things co-stars laugh, argue, and remember why they fell in love.
    By Rachel Handler
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    Reservation Dogs’ Gary Farmer Has Seen it All“As I look back on everything, it seems to me that having a career at all is pretty special in itself.”
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    The Armstrong AgendaGreen Day’s front man didn’t plan to make a Dookie and American Idiot trifecta. Then he started writing their new album.
    By Brady Gerber
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    Kali Uchis Had a VisionThe industry didn’t want the bilingual artist to sing in Spanish, but she did it anyway.
    By Tirhakah Love
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    ‘Get Ready to Never Stop Working’What Hallmark’s tenured holiday hunks learned from a combined quarter-century in the feelings game.
    By Devon Ivie
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    ‘We’re Feeling This Whole Destruction of Spirit’Amid the Israel-Hamas war, Ramy Youssef and Hiam Abbass reflect on centering Palestinian life in a landmark Ramy episode.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Finding Her HeartbeatSharon Stone walked through the valley of death and into an art-supply store.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    What Makes an Alexander Payne Movie?The Holdovers director isn’t sure, but he’ll admit Downsizing might have been a TV series.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Sam Esmail Didn’t Mean for Leave the World Behind to Be So TimelyThe director on the script’s eerie synchronicity with current events and his evolving sense of how much information to give the audience.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    ‘I Don’t Care What People Want Out of Me. I Care About Myself’Danny Brown on leaving Detroit, getting sober, and finding happiness.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    Brit Marling Knows WhodunitThe actress and writer of mystical sci-fi like The OA returns with something fleshier: a murder-mystery series.
    By Rachel Handler
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    ‘I Feel at Home in Filth’Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson’s Dicks: The Musical is a faggy mess. That’s the point.
    By Jason P. Frank
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    Sterlin Harjo Lays Reservation Dogs to Rest“We’ve watched this world grow from four kids to a whole community.”
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    ‘I Was Good by Myself. I’m Better With the Guys.’Raphael Saadiq wasn’t sure a Tony! Toni! Tone! reunion would ever happen. He’s thankful it finally did.
    By Brandon Caldwell
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    Conner O’Malley Opens His Digital WombThe unhinged king of super-online comedy is giving fans a new way to mainline his weird, manic creations.
    By Pablo Goldstein
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    ‘This Is Not a Blip’Dallas Goldtooth considers the post–Reservation Dogs future, for himself and for an industry that’s finally making space for Native creators.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    ‘The Thing Is, to Me, a Movie Is Alive’Carl Franklin on how noir and the blues shaped One False Move, and the story behind that final shot.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    The Same Old Rhiannon GiddensThe Pulitzer-winning folk singer’s turn toward pop isn’t a detour, it’s “part of the journey.”
    By Justin Curto
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    It’s All in Franz Rogowski’s GazeThe star of the summer’s most intimate, explicit movie, Passages, reveals what’s behind his now-famous stare.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Paul F. Tompkins Is Getting Back Into ItThe comedian and podcast legend is still in love with stand-up — and nervous it’ll break his heart.
    By Jesse David Fox
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    The Exorcist’s William Friedkin on the Terror of Filming an Actual ExorcismThe Devil and Father Amorth, in theaters this week, follows the titular Vatican exorcist as he performs his ninth exorcism on the same woman.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
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    Bethany Cosentino’s Hard ResetThe Best Coast singer didn’t abandon the band that made her an indie “It” girl. She had a solo awakening.
    By Leah Greenblatt
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    Ira Glass Just Wants to Make a Decent ShowThe pioneering radio host reflects on the legacy — and business — of This American Life 800 episodes in.
    By Nicholas Quah
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    From Blowing Up Toasters to a Seven-Figure A24 DealMeet Danny and Michael Philippou, a.k.a. RackaRacka, the excitable 30-year-old twin directors behind this summer’s biggest horror movie.
    By Chris Lee
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    Michaela Watkins’s Unrequited-Love Year at SNL“Our careers cannot define us in terms of winner or loser. That’s all bullshit. I didn’t understand that yet. I was a late bloomer.”
    By Andy Hoglund
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    What Jharrel Jerome Learned While Staring Down a 13-Foot Version of HimselfFacing off against a giant doll on the set of Boots Riley’s I’m a Virgo was absolutely mortifying, weird, and undeniably impressive.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    ‘My Films Had So Much Anger’John Woo reflects on a career driven by action, ambition, and artistry.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    The Hollywood Handbook Boys, Over 500 Episodes Deep“I still get a panic attack when somebody says, ‘What’s your show about?’”
    By Sean Malin
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    The Many Chicagos of South SideThe creators of the canceled sitcom always prioritized laughs but never forgot where their show was set.
    By Jesse David Fox
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    Killer Mike Said What He SaidIs the Southern rap legend a truth teller or a capitalist in activist’s clothes?
    By Craig Jenkins
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    ‘Poor, Odd Nate’Nick Mohammed ends three seasons of Ted Lasso with a friendly debate about his character.
    By Devon Ivie
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    ‘How Far Can We Push This Character?’Sarah Goldberg bids farewell to Barry and Sally Reed after four “elastic” seasons.
    By Devon Ivie
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    ‘I Told My Assistant, “They’re Gonna Fire Me”’Ewan Roy’s eulogy stole the show in Succession’s penultimate episode. James Cromwell thought it would end his career.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    ‘I Felt More Comfortable Raging in English’Mining grief, angels, and Einstein’s ghost with France’s elusive Christine and the Queens.
    By Rachel Handler
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    ‘I’m Managing Jeopardy! As Though It’s a Sport’The franchise’s newest executive producer relishes the “very healthy pushback” against him.
    By Devon Ivie
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    A Shonda StoryRhimes made Bridgerton a TV phenomenon but hadn’t written its world. Queen Charlotte is all hers.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
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    Alex Borstein Became The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Very Own Godfather“I had a hard time wrapping my head around a successful Susie and what that means.”
    By Devon Ivie
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    ‘I Don’t Believe Cinema Needs to Tell You a Story’Peter Greenaway on his long career spent treasuring artificiality, avoiding Hollywood, and playing games.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Walking on the MoonSuccession’s Jeremy Strong on Kendall’s elusive moment of triumph — and what it has cost him.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Carol Burnett Has a Story for EverythingAs NBC celebrates her 90th with a starry variety special, the comedy legend reflects on 65-plus years in showbiz: ‘I’m the luckiest broad around.’
    By Josef Adalian
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