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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.

Marlon Wayans as Shorty in "Scary Movie" (Paramount Pictures)

The cinema spoof will never die

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(Illustration by Salon / A24 / Bleeker Street Media / Warner Bros. Pictures / Music Box Films / Ad Vitam)

The best movies of the year (so far) are experiments in big-swing cinema

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"Cars on the Road" (Pixar/Disney)

How “Cars” ruined Pixar

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(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Jazz Life / KONG / Hybe / BigHit Entertainment / Rough Trade Records / Zinadelphia / The Orchard)

The best albums of the year (so far): Music to stop the doomscrolling

Hanh Nguyen, Natalie Moore, Troy Farah, Garrett Owen, Jason Kyle Howard, Francesca Giangiulio, Coleman Spilde, Joy Saha, Melanie McFarland
Inde Navarrette as Nikki and Michael Johnston as Bear in "Obsession" (Focus Features)

The misplaced obsession over “Obsession”

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Clark Shotwell and John Travolta in "Propeller One-Way Night Coach" (Apple TV)

John Travolta’s directorial debut is a rare piece of spellbinding autofiction

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Renate Reinsve in "Backrooms" (A24)

We’re trapped in “Backrooms” hell

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Jake Gyllenhaal (left) and Henry Cavill in "In the Grey." (42West)

Jake Gyllenhaal’s masculinity crisis

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Eylul Guven (left) and Iringó Réti in "Blue Heron" (Janus Films)

A pair of unlikely films remind us why painful memories matter

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Image from "I Love Boosters" (Courtesy of NEON)

Boots Riley’s zany love letter to theft

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Kara Young (left) and Mallori Johnson in "Is God Is." (Patti Perret/Amazon Content Services LLC)

“Is God Is” makes revenge a religion

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Julianne Moore as Havana Segrand in "Maps to the Stars" (Focus World)

What makes an actress “mother”?

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Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly and Stanley Tucci as Nigel Kipling in "The Devil Wears Prada 2" (Macall Polay/20th Century Studios)

The “Devil Wears Prada 2” wake-up call

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Sarah Paulson attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at Metropolitan Museum of Art (Taylor Hill/Getty Images))

The 11 wildest (or mildest) Met Gala looks from this year’s “costume art” extravaganza

Andi Zeisler, Coleman Spilde, Natalie Moore, Hanh Nguyen, Kelly McClure
"Animal Farm" (Angel Studios)

Something’s off about “Animal Farm”

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Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs, Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly and Stanley Tucci as Nigel Kipling in "The Devil Wears Prada 2" (Macall Polay/20th Century Studios)

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” weighs the cost of fighting for our passions

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Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas in "I Shot Andy Warhol" (IFC/Janus Films)

“I Shot Andy Warhol” channels our rage

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Robert Aramayo as John Davidson in "I Swear" (Graeme Hunter/Sony Pictures Classics)

“I Swear” tests our compassion

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Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in "Michael" (Glen Wilson/Lionsgate)

The inescapable unease of the Michael Jackson biopic

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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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