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Coleman Spilde

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Coleman Spilde is a senior culture writer and critic at Salon, covering film and its role in the broader human experience. Coleman’s work seeks to make sense of a chaotic world while highlighting the best and most important films of the present and past, the artists behind them and what we can learn from cinema — even when we think we’ve got it all figured out. He was previously a staff critic at The Daily Beast, and in addition to Salon, his work has appeared in Vulture, Slate, and his newsletter Top Shelf, Low Brow. He can be found sipping a black coffee at the movies.

Will Forte in "Coyote vs. Acme" (Ketchup Entertainment)

It’s critical that you see “Coyote vs. Acme”

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Dolly Parton performs Best Song nominee "Travelin' Thru" from "Transamerica" at the 78th Annual Academy Awards. (M. Caulfield / WireImage)

“Travelin’ Thru” is the Dolly Parton song that can’t be forgotten

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HBO Max (Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

HBO Max is sacrificing its credibility to vertical video

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Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson in "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma" (MUBI)

“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” withers in metaphor Hell

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Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson and Noah Toth in "It Ends" (Neon)

“It Ends” beat Hollywood at its own game to reach theaters

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Anne Hathaway in "The End of Oak Street" (Daniel McFadden/Warner Bros. Pictures)

“The End of Oak Street” does pastiche right

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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in "The X-Files" (Fox/Liaison/Getty Images)

“The X-Files” still make us want to believe

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Hayden Panettiere (L) Michelle Trachtenberg (R) in "Ice Princess" (Walt Disney / Courtesy Everett Collection)

“Ice Princess” quietly defined Hayden Panettiere’s whole career

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Sophie Thatcher in "Her Private Hell" (Neon)

“Her Private Hell” belongs to Sophie Thatcher

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Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner in "One Night Only" (Nicole Rivelli / Universal Pictures)

“One Night Only” and the summer of rom-com sex talk

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Antonio Banderas and Dominic Sessa in "Tony" (Seacia Pavao/A24)

Anthony Bourdain would have hated his own biopic

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Brad Pitt (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures)

Brad Pitt’s sobriety story deserves more scrutiny

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Ariana Grande greets fans (Kevin Mazur/Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Universal Pictures)

Ariana Grande fans need to see “Maddie’s Secret”

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Olivia Wilde in "I Want Your Sex" (Magnolia Pictures)

“I Want Your Sex” is deliberately unsexy

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Adrian McElwee in "Remake" (Music Box Films)

“Remake” will shift your perspective on grief

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Caught in a Netflix streaming hole (nanci santos/Getty Images)

Netflix is turning your brain to mush

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Inde Navarrette as Nikki and Michael Johnston as Bear in "Obsession" (Focus Features)

“Obsession” hasn’t earned classic status

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Matt Damon as Odysseus and Zendaya as Athena in "The Odyssey" (Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal)

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is pointless

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Sam Neill In "In the Mouth of Madness" (New Line Cinema/Getty Images)

Sam Neill, king of the creature feature

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Cemre Paksoy in "Night Nurse" (Lidia Nikonova/IFC)

“Night Nurse” sexualizes the scam call

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Letterboxd (Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

If Letterboxd sells out to Netflix, the people lose

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Miles Gutierrez-Riley as Otto, John Slattery as himself, Ben Wang as Caleb, Ken Marino as Vincent and Zoey Deutch as Gail Daughtry in "Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass" (Sony Pictures Classics)

“Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” is absurdism done right

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"Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story" (HBO)

The sex ed icon who won’t go quietly

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Bonnie Tyler (Jakubaszek/Redferns/Getty Images)

Bonnie Tyler’s anthems will live forever

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