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‘Supergirl’ review: A surprisingly dark film
June 25, 2026It handles surprisingly mature subject matter wedged into a rather clichéd film that doesn’t maximize the storytelling potential.
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‘The Revolutionists’ theater review: An edgy guillotine-tinged satire
June 17, 2026A comedy about France’s Reign of Terror, with aristocrats and assorted enemies of the people quite literally laughing their heads off.
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Resistance, the unverifiable, and the horse in Ali Smith’s ‘Gliff’
June 16, 2026Smith argues that defiance is a persistent, improvised salving: tending wounds, remembering the erased, and walking north toward the unverifiable.
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The ‘cultural Marxism’ myth was always meant to prop up capitalism
June 12, 2026New book shows how the right-wing conspiracy around “cultural Marxism” is ultimately a reactionary effort to justify attacks against gender, race, and labor rights.
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‘Disco Elysium’: Darkly hilarious video game about failed revolutions and enduring hope
June 11, 2026Created by Estonian Robert Kurvitz, a self-described Marxist-Leninist, this fictional world is inspired by the capitalist realities imposed on post-socialist countries.
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