american films
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20 Movies That will Remind You the Government Can’t Be Trusted
Governments lie. They cheat. They steal. Sometimes the blame comes from within: corrupt individuals who’d conned their ways into the halls of power with no moral compass beyond their own self-aggrandizement. Sometimes, the fault lies within ourselves: We’re drawn to populist politicians who tell us what we want to hear even when we very much…
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21 Dysfunctional Film Families to Make You Feel Better About Your Own
Holidays are coming around again, and this year, we have no excuses. For many, one of the (very) few upsides of the pandemic was that it provided a solid excuse to avoid toxic family holiday gatherings — and if a reluctance to spend time with your relatives is entirely alien to you, congratulations. If some…
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20 of the Best Long Movies That Are Actually Worth Their Runtime
1The tendency in movie runtimes seems to be trending toward length, and even if the data doesn’t really bear this out, recent, superlong installments in big box office franchises like Marvel and James Bond (the movies being watched the most, that is) at least mean the bloat feels real. For some reason these wildly popular series…
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27 Movies to Stream When You Need a Good Cry
The past year has inundated us with so many horrors — untold lives needlessly lost to a virus allowed to proliferate unchecked, so many others forever damaged by the ongoing pandemic of racism, not to mention the ever-present specters of economic uncertainty and looming climate disaster — I won’t fault you if you’ve become numb…