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One Battle After Another and the Comedy of Forgetting

Paul Thomas Anderson's Pynchon adaptation took six Academy Awards and $213.1 million, and the reason it works is a running joke about a man who cannot remember a phrase.

Lena Ashworth·17 Aug·6 min

Film

The Brutalist: In Defence of the 3.5-Hour Epic

A year after The Brutalist swept its technical categories and divided audiences, its length has stopped looking like a gamble and started looking like the point. An argument for the long film in a short-film decade.

Lena Ashworth·11 Mar·6 min