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Coleman Spilde

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Coleman Spilde is a senior staff culture writer and critic at Salon, specializing in film, television and music. 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 at the movies.

Julia Garner in "Weapons" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

“Weapons” succumbs to its worst instinct

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Charlie Zakkour and Riley Burruss on "Next Gen NYC" (Jocelyn Prescod/Bravo)

Gen Z finally has a great reality show

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Eddie Yu as Detective Park, Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. and Paul Walter Hauser as Ed Hocken Jr. in "The Naked Gun" (Paramount Pictures)

“The Naked Gun” punches up the franchise’s funniest joke

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Alison Brie and Dave Franco in "Together" (Germain McMicking/Neon)

The horror of being “Together” forever

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Eva Victor in "Sorry, Baby" (A24)

“Sorry, Baby” is why we go to the movies

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Marcello Hernandez, Adam Sandler and Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio in "Happy Gilmore 2" (Scott Yamano/Netflix)

With “Happy Gilmore 2,” Adam Sandler’s comedy shows its age

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Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer in "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" (20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios)

We’ve reached peak Marvel mess

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Logan Lerman and Molly Gordon in "Oh, Hi!" (Sony Pictures Classics)

“Oh, Hi!” turns the archaic “crazy woman” trope on its head

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Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in "Eddington" (Courtesy of A24)

Ari Aster wants us to relive COVID dread — but we never left

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Cynthia Nixon in "And Just Like That" (Craig Blankenhorn/Max)

The weirder “And Just Like That” gets, the better it is

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David Corenswet as Superman in "Superman" (Jessica Miglio/Warner Bros. Pictures)

“Superman” is super woke — on purpose

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Christopher Reeve as Superman, 1978 (Keystone/Getty Images)

Christopher Reeve’s Superman can never be defeated

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Damson Idris as Joshua Pearce and Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes in "F1" (Warner Bros. Pictures / Apple Original Films)

“F1: The Movie” is everything wrong with Hollywood

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Jonathan Bailey as Dr. Henry Loomis and Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett in "Jurassic World Rebirth" (Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment)

Jonathan Bailey is the “Jurassic World Rebirth” apex

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Ocean Ramsey in "Shark Whisperer" (Netflix)

The “Shark Whisperer” doc is cold-blooded

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Allison Williams at the "M3GAN 2.0" New York Premiere on June 24, 2025 in New York, New York. (Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images)

Everyone in America is a Marnie now

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Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes in "F1" (Scott Garfield/Warner Bros. Pictures /Apple Original Films)

Brad Pitt’s hollow race to redemption

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Natasha Lyonne (Araya Doheny/Getty Images)

Natasha Lyonne’s big AI problem

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A collection of some of our staff picks. (Photo illustration by Salon / Courtesy of Netflix, Apple TV+, Darren Vargas, Penguin Random House)

The best of 2025 . . . so far

Kelly McClure, Natalie Moore, Coleman Spilde, Melanie McFarland, Hanh Nguyen, Erin Keane, Andi Zeisler, Amanda Marcotte, Bennett Taren, Alex Galbraith, Ashlie D. Stevens
Mariska Hargitay as seen in "My Mom Jayne" (Courtesy of HBO)

Mariska Hargitay unravels the truth of her famous mother’s legacy

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Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist and Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar in "Brokeback Mountain" (Kimberly French/Focus Features)

“Brokeback Mountain” broke hearts on the big screen, and it’s back to do it again

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Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his son Spike (Alfie Williams) in "28 Years Later" (Miya Mizuno/Sony Pictures)

We all have a rage virus now

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Dakota Johnson in "Materialists" (Atsushi Nishijima)

Dakota Johnson isn’t a bad actor, she just knows how to play the game

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Tom Hiddleston as Charles "Chuck" Krantz in "The Life of Chuck" (Courtesy of Neon)

“The Life of Chuck” forces twee positivity in a time when we need it the least

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