Alissa Wilkinson
Reporter and film critic @voxdotcom | Associate professor (criticism, culture, and cinema studies) @thekingscollege | @NYFCC | “Joy is not made to be a crumb”
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1917 vividly recreates WWI’s trench warfare. Is that enough to win Best Picture?
Our roundtable discusses the Oscar chances for Sam Mendes’s "one shot" war movie.
5 winners and 4 losers of the 2020 Oscar nominations, from Joker to J. Lo
The big loser was diversity.
The Social Network knew we’d spend the next decade moving our offline lives online
Back in 2010, a website became a white-knuckle thriller and predicted a dismal online future.
Greta Gerwig’s Little Women adaptation is genuinely extraordinary
The new movie doesn’t "update" the novel. It does something much better.
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Alissa Wilkinson
It is with great pleasure that I can tell you that #LittleWomen is extraordinary, and will please any fan as well as any newcomer.
(Pssst, boys: just because it has the word “women” in the title doesn’t mean it’s not for you. Man up!)
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#LittleWomen (out Christmas Day!) is a masterclass in how to pay attention to a work, and to a world.
It is a perfect example of how a work of art can serve as a work of criticism — not to “criticize” the original, but to expand it and make it richer.
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The effanineffable, deep and inscrutable, singular Cats
This movie is indescribable. Let’s try.
Adam Sandler’s starring role in Uncut Gems almost didn’t happen
Directors Josh and Benny Safdie thought seeing the comedian on a screen at Cannes was as close as they’d get to him.
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If you are lucky enough to be in a family of adventurous cinephiles, UNCUT GEMS is your movie. (Also an excellent choice if you are looking for the season's most Jewish movie.)
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Bombshell turns the story of harassment at Fox News into a schlocky girl power anthem
The new film is a shockingly bad take on a very important issue.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is what happens when a franchise gives up
The new movie is a colossal failure of imagination.
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Alissa Wilkinson
Hard to express how disappointing Star Wars: #TheRiseofSkywalker was to me — as a movie, a sequel, and just a Star Wars story.
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Beyoncé’s Lemonade is one of the best movies of the 2010s
The superstar helmed one of the decade’s most radical films.
The 20 best documentaries of the 2010s
In a decade where reality and fiction blurred, these movies showed us who we really are.
The 21 best films of 2019
Rock stars, painters, poets, and con artists all lit up the silver screen this year.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is not a Mister Rogers biopic. It’s weirder, and better.
A perfectly cast Tom Hanks stars in what feels like a feature-length episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, but for grown-ups.
Queen & Slim retells the Bonnie and Clyde myth as a story about blackness in America
Americans love the legend of doomed young lovers on the run. In Queen & Slim, that love gets reexamined.
Event | Metrograph
Metrograph is a new Manhattan movie theater devoted to screening archive-quality 35mm prints and new films in state-of-the-art digital projection.
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Alissa Wilkinson
Delighted to be moderating a conversation following HIGH FLYING BIRD on Dec 7, 2pm, at @MetrographNYC, with the conversation trio of my dreams: star André Holland, director Steven Soderbergh, and writer Tarell Alvin McCraney. You want to be there.
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The year’s best documentary turns climate change into a sci-fi film
The Hottest August director Brett Story wanted to "look at climate change by looking away from it."
How Heroes of the Fourth Turning, about Catholic intellectuals, became one of fall’s buzziest plays
Playwright Will Arbery says he isn’t interested in "diagnosing" his characters.
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Alissa Wilkinson
Heroes of the Fourth Turning, about conservative Catholic intellectuals, is one of this fall’s buzziest plays. I talked to playwright @WillArbery about how it’s been received, and what that ending really means.
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Talked to @willarbery recently about his buzzy off-Broadway play HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING, about conservative Catholic intellectuals, which is closing this weekend. My editor's feedback was "he seems very thoughtful." Indeed, he is.
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The case for spoilers
Some people avoid them at all costs. I seek them out — and I’m not alone.
I Started Vomiting While I Was Pregnant. Two Years Later, I’m Still Sick.
I know that the intense nausea and vomiting that started during my pregnancy is linked to my anxiety. What I don't know is how to make it stop.
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Alissa Wilkinson
My beautiful, brave friend @lkoturner writes with the kind of lyrical vulnerability that I find very hard to summon, and this essay on what it is like to inhabit a rebelling body is exquisite.
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"Everybody Is Freaking Out": Freelance Writers Scramble to Make Sense of New California Law
A new bill that caps freelance submissions may make writing financially unsustainable for many workers even though the legislator behind the law insists that the goal is "to create new good jobs and a livable, sustainable wage job."
Did Joker deserve all the discourse?
Todd Phillips’s gritty supervillain origin story might be irresponsible. It also might just be boring.