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Come to the Moulin Rouge! where artifice reveals authenticity
Baz Luhrmann’s mashup musical piles on the spectacle on its way to embracing true love.

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I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson makes us stay a little longer with sketch comedy gold
Season 3 may not be as consistent, but it still brings plenty of hilariously weird and uncomfortable situations.

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A decade on, The Purge series is more frightening than ever
The dystopian portrait of the United States now feels ironically naïve, a reality that makes it more deeply unnerving than when it first hit theatres.

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Succession ends as it should, with no one happy
One of the best series of the 20s closes on a realistically somber note, where even winning feels like losing.

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Kandahar takes a shot it doesn’t quite land
Gerard Butler’s CIA-agent-on-the-run thriller aims to be more than a power fantasy, but for all its virtues, it doesn’t stick that landing. There’s an expected..

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Traversing Baz Lurhmann’s sonic landscapes
Even when he’s not making musical movies, the Aussie auteur’s movies are always musical.
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