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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.

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Anne Hathaway in "Mother Mary" (Frederic Batier/A24)

The divine lessons of “Mother Mary”

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Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway attend "The Devil Wears Prada 2" premiere in South Korea (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” feels more like a product than a movie

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Lorne Michaels stars in director Morgan Neville's documentary "Lorne" (Focus Features)

How the “SNL” sausage gets made

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Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin in "Up In Smoke" (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

How Cheech & Chong lit up the film industry

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Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen in "The Christophers" (Claudette Barius/NEON)

Steven Soderbergh’s AI contradiction

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"The End of Oak Street" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

With “The End of Oak Street,” dinosaur fans may finally have their movie

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Robert Pattinson and Zendaya in "The Drama" (A24)

Movies should make us uncomfortable

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"Hag" (Tubi)

“Hag” is a Tubi movie to rule them all

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Robert Pattinson and Zendaya in "The Drama" (A24)

The audacious twist of “The Drama” holds a mirror up to America

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Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti and Alexandra Shipp in "Forbidden Fruits" (Sabrina Lantos/Shudder/Independent Film Company)

The distressing death of the mall movie

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Zazie Beetz in "They Will Kill You" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Horror’s favorite formula is wearing thin

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Sofia Coppola and Marc Jacobs (A24)

Sofia Coppola taps the whimsy of ’90s Marc Jacobs

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Sarah Michelle Gellar (Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Sarah Michelle Gellar has outgrown “Buffy”

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Rose Byrne in "Tow" (Roadside Attractions)

Rose Byrne’s strange post-Oscars move

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Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace in "Project Hail Mary" (Amazon MGM Studios/Jonathan Olley)

“Project Hail Mary” is movie medicine

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Maika Monroe as Kenna Rowan and Tyriq Withers as Ledger Ward in "Reminders of Him" (Michelle Faye / Universal Pictures)

“Reminders of Him” makes the case for melodrama

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Michael B. Jordan accepts the Actor in a Leading Role award for "Sinners" onstage during the 98th Oscars (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

The 2026 Oscars were (almost) optimistic

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Nina Kiri in "Undertone" (Dustin Rabin/A24)

“Undertone” embodies horror’s crucial less-is-more lesson

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Nan Goldin in "All the Beauty and The Beauty and the Bloodshed" (HBO)

The most powerful Oscar nominee you didn’t see

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Timothée Chalamet attends the 98th Oscar Nominees Luncheon (Monica Schipper/WireImage/Getty Images)

Why Oscars season in Trumpworld makes us so mad

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Jessie Buckley as The Bride in "The Bride" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

“Frankenstein” needed a woman’s touch

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Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in “All the President’s Men” (Warner Bros./Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

“All the President’s Men” was a warning

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Ghostface in "Scream 7" (Paramount Pictures)

Film is — and always will be — political

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Marisa Abela and Myha’la in "Industry" (Simon Ridgway/HBO)

In “Industry,” queerness is capital

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