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Friday, April 30, 2021

John Walker’s redemption reveals the cowardice of ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’

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There is a responsibility, when invoking the consequential issues that Walker represents — white privilege, police brutality, American war crimes — to interrogate those topics beyond lip service.
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Friday, April 9, 2021
Illustration of the characters Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson from "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" standing back to back

‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ lets former Marvel sidekicks shine

Where “WandaVision” took full advantage of its TV format, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” has a more uneasy relationship with the medium, reading mostly as an extended “Captain America” movie.
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Sunday, October 14, 2018

‘The Hate U Give’ presents its audience a problem, then a solution

Being a child is a privilege of sorts — typically, it allows nonchalance and requires very little worry. For Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg), however, her childhood circumstances insist that she know her rights, know her worth. Starr does not have the privilege of being a child.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

‘Runner Runner’ sprints recklessly in the wrong direction

Justin Timberlake must have a thing for Ivy League campuses. In 2010, he creeped on Stanford girls and buddied around with Harvard nerds as Sean Parker in “The Social Network.” Timberlake rendered Parker’s overconfidence and general scumminess seamlessly. And he stood out like a sore thumb in the company of
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