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The best stuff to watch with your friends on Netflix Party

The vast majority of humanity is in isolation for the next few weeks or months, maybe longer. Which means people are desperate for ways to connect with their loved ones from afar. With so many households undoubtedly binging similar things (ahem, The…

By Kara Weisenstein

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'Sound of Metal' is a heartwarming — and frustrating — take on deafness
By Sara Nović
Whenever I meet a hearing person, I immediately begin steeling myself for their inevitable release of what I like to call “the triad of microaggressions”: 1. Incredulity at deaf independence (“You can drive?”) 2. Comparison to animal (“Oh,…
The tearjerking Chadwick Boseman awards campaign has begun
By Shawn Cooke
As the Golden Globes and Oscars delayed their ceremonies with a widened eligibility window, the also-delayed secondary precursor awards are starting to dish out their trophies. Chadwick Boseman, who died last August from complications related to…
At least Netflix is giving us new movies every week in 2021
By Kara Weisenstein
The pandemic may have seismically disrupted moviegoing, but business is booming for the world’s largest streaming service. Netflix’s ability to keep releasing buzzy films and franchises has been mostly unhampered by the ongoing health crisis. Case…
2020 was a record-breaking year for women directors — but true equity is still a pipe dream
By Kara Weisenstein
So there’s good news and bad news, folks. The good news is that a record-breaking number of female directors helmed Hollywood blockbusters last year — 16 percent were directed by women, up from a dismal 4 percent two years prior. The bad news is…
This Swedish film festival wants you to binge 60 movies alone in a lighthouse
By Kara Weisenstein
Scandinavia’s biggest film festival usually draws more than 160,000 people to the Swedish city of Göteborg, on the nation’s western coast. But in light of the ongoing pandemic, which has obviously disrupted moviegoing and gatherings of all sizes,…
In 2020, TV and film still couldn’t get abortion right
By Gretchen Sisson and Stephanie Herold
According to decades of research, abortion is an incredibly common and safe medical procedure. But if you learned about abortion only from movies and TV, that’s not the story you’d see. For the last eight years, we’ve been studying onscreen…

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