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Corey Atad

Corey Atad is a writer for GQ.
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Even Tony Kushner Warned Steven Spielberg About Making Munich

Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get into an enormous amount of trouble” when Spielberg decided to do the movie.
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Best Original Song Is the Worst Oscar Category

It's become an award that exists solely to honor people's desire to win it. There's got to be a better way.
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See Park Chan-Wook’s Strikingly Beautiful Photos from the Film Festival Circuit

The No Other Choice director on bringing inanimate objects to life, the advice he got from Mary Ellen Mark, and what photography does for him that filmmaking can't.
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The Secret Agent Is More Than Just a Great Political Thriller

Narcos star Wagner Moura talks about his role in director Kleber Mendonça Filho's '70s-set Brazilian drama and how life under the Bolsonaro regime shaped their collaboration.
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Hamnet's Costume Designer Turned Paul Mescal into a Shakespeare You've Never Seen—By Ditching Everything but the Earring

Mescal explains how Malgosia Turzanska's costumes—featuring slashed leather and dark gray tones—helped him access William Shakespeare's "psychological landscape" in Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet.
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How VistaVision Became 2025's Hottest Film Format

Developed in the '50s to help movies compete with a new invention called television, the VistaVision film format is once again in vogue, thanks to films like The Brutalist and One Battle After Another. But what is VistaVision—and is it better, or just bigger?
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Watch These Eight Films to Prepare For One Battle After Another

Counting the hours until la revolucion kicks off? Just want to flex your cinematic knowledge in the popcorn line? Cue up this mini-film festival of movies that speak to (and in some cases, helped inspire) Paul Thomas Anderson's radical action thriller.
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Gus Van Sant's Dead Man's Wire Is a Perfect True-Crime Drama for Our Terrible Moment

Van Sant's first new film in seven years brings to life a '70s standoff with uncanny echoes of Luigi Mangione.
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Sentimental Value: A Superb Stellan Skarsgård Anchors Joachim Trier's Instant Oscar Favorite

Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an outstanding cast in Norway's Best International Feature Film submission, about a family reckoning with decades of estrangement.
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Charli XCX Shouts Out Some Elite Filmmakers At Coachella, Instantly Makes Movies Cool Again

The Brat creator and Letterboxd power user said goodbye to “Brat Summer” at the end of her Coachella set, and suggested that Cronenberg Summer, Celine Song Summer, or Ari Aster Summer may be upon us.
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The Studio Is Bringing Pratfall Comedy Back

The AppleTV+ series, with Seth Rogen as a flailing movie exec, is a knowing showbiz satire—but it never forgets that a guy tripping over furniture is usually pretty funny.
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How The Studio Pulled Off That Single-Shot Episode

Seth Rogen and guest star Sarah Polley tell us everything about the complicated process of shooting “The Oner," an episode about the complicated process of filming a long, unbroken take.
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You Should See No Other Land. Here's How to Do That

The Oscar-winning documentary about a Palestinian community in the West Bank still doesn't have an American distributor, but don't let that stop you.
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Oscars 2025: Let's Give Some Made-Up Oscars To Movies the Oscars Won't Give Oscars To

The Academy can only honor so many movies this Sunday, so we're taking matters into our own hands.
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How The Brutalist Director Brady Corbet Made a Modern-Day Epic for Just $10 Million

It's a sweeping, era-spanning cinematic landmark in the tradition of The Godfather and There Will Be Blood. It cost less to shoot than a midrange horror movie. Corbet and the film's production designer and cinematographer explain how they pulled it off.
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Juror #2 Screenwriter Jonathan A. Abrams on How His First Produced Screenplay Became a Clint Eastwood Movie

“Clint’s a master of economy,” Abrams says. “How can we say more with less, or show more with less, ideally?”
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Industry's Ken Leung Talks About Eric Tao's Big Move in Tonight's Penultimate Episode

The veteran actor also opines on Eric's future and reveals the advice he got from Dominic Chianese on the set of The Sopranos.
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Presumed Innocent's O-T Fagbenle Talks About Stealing Scenes Without Saying a Word

After years of nice-boyfriend/husband roles on everything from The Handmaid's Tale to Loot, the English actor reinvented himself as an unscrupulous district attorney on AppleTV+'s hit legal thriller.