Critics at Large
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More on Nashville‘s Brilliant Prescience
If you enjoyed Amanda Shubert’s recent Rumpus interview with singer, songwriter, actress, and Nashville star Ronee Blakley, you should definitely take a look at this essay about the film’s new Criterion Collection release. Written by Shubert’s Critics at Large colleague Kevin…
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Why Baseball Movies Usually Strike Out
From Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat” to Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, there’s something about baseball stories that captures our imaginations. Have baseball movies done the same? Maybe, but with much less artistic integrity, argues Kevin Courrier in a…
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Sofia Coppola Makes Shallowness Deep
Can a character be well rendered not in spite of her vapidity but because of it? And if so, what does that say about how the culture in which people both fictional and real are steeping? Nick Coccoma of Critics…