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n the "Black Mirror" episode "Bandersnatch," viewers determine the fate of video game programmer Stefan Butler (courtesy of Netflix).

‘Bandersnatch’ is a gimmick gone to waste

Noah Howard
  •  
Jan. 25, 2019
Courtesy of Matthew Murphy

Performed live, Tony Award-winning musical ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ is a complete artistic disappointment

Olivia Popp
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Jan. 25, 2019
Gregory La Cava confronts the grim Great Depression in "My Man Godfrey" (courtesy of Universal Pictures and The Criterion Collection).

‘My Man Godfrey’ supplies sidesplitting comedy and social commentary

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Jan. 22, 2019
Mary Poppins (El Beh) and Bert (Wiley Naman Strasser) during a Jolly Holiday with other park strollers (Rudy Guerrero and Sophia LaPaglia). (Courtesy of Jessica Palopoli)

SF Playhouse’s ‘Mary Poppins’ is ‘practically perfect’

Olivia Popp
  •  
Jan. 22, 2019
'Some Like It Hot' focuses on an all-girl band--except two members aren't girls at all (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

In ‘Some Like It Hot,’ Billy Wilder explores the attributes of artifice

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Jan. 18, 2019
The Ambersons spend much of their time sequestered in their magnificent mansion (courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and The Criterion Collection.)

Orson Welles documents a family’s dizzying decline in ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
  •  
Jan. 17, 2019
In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," J.K. Rowling calls attention to her characters' personal problems and not her sweeping story (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

Wizard puberty and other less important matters

Mark York
  •  
Jan. 16, 2019
Warren Beatty plays a hedonistic hairdresser in Hal Ashby's "Shampoo" (courtesy of Sony Pictures and The Criterion Collection).

Sex, society and ‘Shampoo’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Jan. 14, 2019
MINT Magazine's fall 2018 issue explores "the politics of inversion"(KELSEY WANG and JESSICA YEUNG/MINT Magazine).

MINT Magazine, fall 2018 — reviewed

Chasity Hale
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Jan. 11, 2019
Mimi Leder's new film shows how Ruth Bader Ginsberg surmounted sexism (courtesy of Focus Features).

‘On the Basis of Sex’ can’t win the case

Grace Zhou
  •  
Jan. 10, 2019
Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld) finds an unlikely friend in the autobot Bumblebee, a refugee to Earth whom Charlie discovers. “Bumblebee” is the most recent installment in the Transformers franchise. (Courtesy of Paramount Pictures)

‘Bumblebee’: A masterfully nostalgic love letter to the 80s

Olivia Popp
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Jan. 9, 2019
Hua Chenyu's cover of Cui Jian's "Fake Monk" is completely compelling (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Hua Chenyu’s peerless performances

Enshia Li
  •  
Jan. 7, 2019
Dale Bell and Harry Wiland make documentaries about pressing social issues (courtesy of Media Policy Center).

Documentaries for good: Dale Bell and Harry Wiland discuss the Media and Policy Center

Hayley Hodson
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Dec. 19, 2018
Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the Grinch as a cute creature (courtesy of Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures).

‘The Grinch’ for the modern moment

Hayley Hodson
  •  
Dec. 17, 2018
Virginia Woolf is the author of "Mrs. Dalloway," first published in 1925 (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

The bearable heaviness of being: reflections on ‘Mrs. Dalloway’

Carly Taylor
  •  
Dec. 10, 2018
Jefferson Mays stars in the Geffen Playhouse world premiere adaption of Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol,” directed by Michael Arden. (Courtesy of Chris Whitaker)

Geffen Playhouse’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ shines with a solo holiday performance

Olivia Popp
  •  
Dec. 7, 2018
Brian de Palma's "Sisters" centers around a mysterious murder (courtesy of Janus Films).

De Palma steals from the masters in ‘Sisters’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
  •  
Nov. 30, 2018
Meth addiction tears a family apart in "Beautiful Boy" (courtesy of Amazon Studios).

‘Beautiful Boy’: A tragic story of addiction

Emilia Diaz-Magaloni
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Nov. 30, 2018
Most people read the 1831 edition of "Frankenstein," but it is not Mary Shelley's original version (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

‘Frankenstein’ and its transformations

Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Nov. 29, 2018
Anatoly Solonitsyn plays a renowned Russian painter in Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev" (courtesy of Janus Films).

In ‘Andrei Rublev,’ Tarkovsky contemplates artistry and reality

Amir Abou-Jaoude
  •  
Nov. 28, 2018
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