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Nathan Rabin is a freelance pop culture writer, the original head writer of The A.V Club and the author of four books, most recently You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me.

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Daily Shard from the Fractured Mirror: Kitty Green's Powerful Character Study The Assistant is a Masterpiece of Quiet Intensity

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Movies about the film industry don’t come quieter than Kitty Green’s powerful 2019 character study The Assistant. The writer-director almost completely eschews a score that might distract from the uncomfortable emotions at the film’s core. It similarly avoids the clichés of movies about the film industry in its pursuit of stark sociological truth. In a masterfully understated performance, Julia Garner stars as Jane, the title character.
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The Daily Shard from The Fractured Mirror is Ben Affleck’s Oscar-Winning Hit Argo, Which is About the Faking, Rather than the Making, Of a Movie

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Ben Affleck’s 2012 hit Argo feels unique among movies about the film industry in that it’s not about making a movie but rather faking one. The movie that gives Affleck’s film its name exists only as a title, Jack Kirby’s storyboards, and a script of questionable quality.
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Forget the Generic Title: The 1999 Stephen King-Penned Miniseries Storm of the Century is a Creepy, Claustrophobia Sleeper

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Stephen King is never afraid to repeat himself. That comes with being one of our most prolific writers, as well as one of our most popular and most important. I should know. I used a lot more prolific, but my brain hasn’t quite worked the same since my dad died and I got into a bad car accident last year. That’s not unlike how getting hit by a car and nearly dying affected Stephen King so deeply that the best his broken brain could come up with was Dreamcatcher.
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