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Rebel Without a Clue
Elizabeth Alsop picks up the trail of Kelly Reichardt’s alienated art thief in “The Mastermind.”
Screen Shots
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Written by the Los Angeles Review of Books’ own film and TV editors, Annie Berke, Elizabeth Alsop, and Michael Szalay, Screen Shots is a monthly column featuring reviews, essays, and discussion from the big to the little screen.
Written by the Los Angeles Review of Books’ own film and TV editors, Annie Berke, Elizabeth Alsop, and Michael Szalay, Screen Shots is a monthly column featuring reviews, essays, and discussion from the big to the little screen.
Televising Decline
Elizabeth Alsop reviews “The Studio,” “The Franchise,” and other recent industry satires.
Material, Girls
Annie Berke watches Celine Song’s new film “Materialists” and the Netflix show “With Love, Meghan.”
It’s Time for My Voice to Be Deferred
In the latest installment of Screen Shots, Michael Szalay reviews Alfonso Cuarón’s new Apple TV+ series “Disclaimer.”
Blessed Are the Forgetful
In the latest installment of Screen Shots, Annie Berke recalls Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” a love story about memory loss, for its 20th anniversary.
Danger Done Safely
Elizabeth Alsop investigates how the latest season of “Only Murders in the Building” reveals the pleasures and limits of coziness, in the latest installment of Screen Shots.
Too Little, Too Late for TV’s Woman Writer?
Annie Berke considers the figure of the woman writer in the popular TV series “Bridgerton” and “Hacks,” in the latest installment of Screen Shots.
When Not Every Second Counts
In the latest installment of Screen Shots, Michael Szalay reviews season three of FX’s “The Bear.”
Spooky Entanglements: “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Constellation,” and “The Signal”
Michael Szalay on twinned productions and other IP shenanigans in “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Constellation,” and “The Signal.”
The Past Is Never Dead: On TV’s Backstory Problem
In the latest Screen Shots column, Elizabeth Alsop explores the ubiquity—and limitations—of the “trauma backstory.”
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