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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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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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Jon Cryer, Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy on set of "Pretty In Pink," 1986. (Paramount/Getty Images)

The women of “Pretty in Pink” deserved better

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Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

The “Wuthering Heights” double standard

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Samantha Mathis, Juliette Lewis and Robin Tunney in "By Design" (Music Box Films)

“By Design” targets modern apathy with a supernaturally stylish twist

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James Van Der Beek (Ray Tamarra/GC Images/Getty Images)

James Van Der Beek kept us guessing

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Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff and Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw in "Wuthering Heights" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is a reader’s dream

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Charli xcx and Kate Berlant in "The Moment" (A24)

“The Moment” is Charli xcx’s disturbing sellout fantasy

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Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson in “Fargo,” 1996 (Gramercy Pictures/Getty Images)

“Fargo” at 30: How “Minnesota nice” endures amid violence and unrest

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Eugene Levy as Mitch Cohen and Catherine O'Hara as Mickey Crabbe in "A Mighty Wind" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

“A Mighty Wind” is Catherine O’Hara’s emotional tightrope act

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