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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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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Alissa Wilkinson
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.
How Minding the Gap went from skateboard documentary to a raw look at domestic abuse
Director Bing Liu talks about taking inspiration from skate videos, being his own subject, and making one of the year’s best films.
Mobsters, Teamsters, history, guilt, and salvation: Martin Scorsese’s terrific The Irishman
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci headline a long, winding movie that’s well worth the watch.
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Alissa Wilkinson
#TheIrishman is very much a Scorsese movie, from the mobsters to the long meditation on guilt and salvation. My review, from #NYFF.
(It’ll be in limited theaters and then on Netflix in November.)
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Pose’s Billy Porter makes LGBTQ history with his Emmy win
The multitalented actor is one step closer to an EGOT.
Ad Astra is about lonely Brad Pitt in space. It’s also about an absent God.
Slow, gorgeous, and unnerving, the movie gives a distinctly modern answer to man’s search for the divine.
Political commentary can be both caustic and incisive. Molly Ivins showed America how.
The new documentary Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins explores the famed columnist’s life and legacy.
Aquarela is the most metal documentary about water you will ever see
Director Victor Kossakovsky was genuinely worried about keeping his crew alive.
The Hunt’s cancellation and Hollywood’s history of self-censorship, explained
The movie industry has tried for a century to keep the government out of the box office.
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Alissa Wilkinson
I wrote about the cancellation of #TheHunt and Hollywood’s long, long history of self-censorship — in an attempt to keep the state out of its business.
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CNN’s Chris Cuomo said "Fredo" is like "the n-word" for Italians. It’s … not.
It’s a reference to The Godfather.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Tarantino’s fun, haunting homage to the summer of ’69
Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie lead this star-studded film about a fading era.
Netflix’s The Great Hack explores how Cambridge Analytica sold your data during the 2016 election
You’ll want to delete your Facebook account.