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'Ordesa' Is A Difficult Read — But Stick With It

7:00am December 05, 2020

by Michael Schaub

Manuel Vilas' quiet, intensely sad new, about a middle-aged man trying to connect with his estranged family while thinking a lot of deep thoughts about death, requires patience, but it's worth it.

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'Your Honor' Captures A Horrifying Spiral Of Accidents — And Consequences

1:38pm December 04, 2020

by David Bianculli

Bryan Cranston is a judge whose life is torn apart when his teen son is involved in a car accident with a mobster's son. The legal twists and dramatic turns are nonstop in this Showtime miniseries.

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Check-In: Milestone Birthdays

12:18pm December 04, 2020

Jonathan Coulton talks about celebrating a milestone birthday during the pandemic.

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Bad To The Future II

12:18pm December 04, 2020

Comedians and actors Fortune Feimster and Jillian Bell guess what people in the past thought the future would be like.

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Musical Food Pyramid

12:18pm December 04, 2020

Jonathan Coulton plays songs by bands named after food rewritten to be about those foods. Fortune Feimster (Chick Fight) and Jillian Bell (Brittany Runs A Marathon) absolutely crush it.

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Yeahs In History

12:18pm December 04, 2020

In this audio quiz, Big Mouth's Ayo Edebiri and her fellow "Iconography" podcast host Olivia Craighead identify songs with the word "yeah" in them. Ohhhhh yeahhhhhhh.

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More, More, Moray

12:18pm December 04, 2020

What has more eyes, a starfish or a scallop? Big Mouth's Ayo Edebiri and her fellow "Iconography" podcast host Olivia Craighead compare animals and guess which has more of a thing.

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Rosie Perez: The Flight Attendant

12:18pm December 04, 2020

Rosie Perez talks about recording safety messages for the New York City subway, her new show The Flight Attendant, and plays a game where she finishes Muhammad Ali's sentences.

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Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davies and Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in David Fincher's impressive Mank.

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'Mank' Is A Lushly Rendered Cinematic Landscape

7:00am December 04, 2020

by Aisha Harris

David Fincher's dramatization of Citizen Kane's origin story is an impressive, if occasionally inert, biopic.

Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is a punk-metal drummer who loses his hearing in Sound of Metal.

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In 'Sound Of Metal,' Sudden Hearing Loss Sends A Drummer Reeling

5:08am December 04, 2020

by Glen Weldon

Riz Ahmed gives a quiet, intense and profoundly unsentimental performance as a rock drummer who suddenly loses his hearing and stubbornly refuses to accept it.