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All posts by Alissa Wilkinson
Adult Beginners: “The Blair Witch Project”
Alissa Wilkinson looks at the iconic 1999 horror film for the first time in the new Adult Beginners.
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Adult Beginners: “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial”
Alissa Wilkinson on one of Steven Spielberg's classics, from the POV of a first-timer, "E.T."
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Adult Beginners: “Breathless”
Alissa Wilkinson continues her Adult Beginners column with the French film "Breathless."
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Adult Beginners: “The Nightmare Before Christmas”
Adult Beginner Alissa Wilkinson takes on The Nightmare Before Christmas, the day after Christmas.
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Adult Beginners: “The Silence of the Lambs”
Every other week, Alissa Wilkinson looks back at an iconic piece of cinema in the Adult Beginners column. The twist? She's watching each of these films for the first time, approaching them with fresh eyes and mature context. This week, she's discussing The Sil...
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Adult Beginners: “Chinatown”
Every other week, Alissa Wilkinson looks back at an iconic piece of cinema in the Adult Beginners column. The twist? She's watching each of these films for the first time, approaching them with fresh eyes and mature context. This week, she's discussing Chinato...
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Adult Beginners: “Dr. Strangelove”
Every other week, Alissa Wilkinson looks back at an iconic piece of cinema in the Adult Beginners column. The twist? She's watching each of these films for the first time, approaching them with fresh eyes and mature context. This week, she's discussing Dr. Str...
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Adult Beginners: “Citizen Kane”
Even those casually interested in movies have bumped into Citizen Kane, probably on The Simpsons, or basically anywhere else in pop culture. Everyone knows Rosebud. I certainly knew Rosebud.
I also knew that the film had something to do with magnate William R...
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Introducing Adult Beginners
Here's the most embarrassing sentence I’ve ever had to write in my ten-year career as a film critic: until last week, I’d never seen Citizen Kane.
Determine for yourself how lame my excuse is: New Yorkers can almost always count on getting to see great new pr...
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“Z for Zachariah” And The Future of Humanity
Robert C. O’Brien’s 1974 novel Z for Zachariah tells a story of Paradise unregainable. In O’Brien’s novel, unlike Craig Zobel’s recent film adaptation, there is no Caleb character at all. Instead, Loomis is the man who killed his coworker. He has few good inte...
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