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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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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

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"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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"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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