minisdune | <em>Dune</em>/Warner Bros. Pictures

Dune

Director Denis Villeneuve managed to turn a book about a feudal fight over a desert planet into a film enjoyable for both casual audiences and superfans alike.

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miniseternals | <em>The Eternals</em>/Marvel Studios

The Eternals

The film is suffused with the patronizing notion that good superheroes are benign despots who know what's best for the rest of us.

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slide 1 | Illustration: Lex Villena; JUSTIN SULLIVAN/UPI/Newscom, Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit

Goodbye, Cuomos!

Last year may have been the year of the Cuomosexual, but 2021 rightly disabused people of the notion that New York's governor had their best interests at heart.

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minisfoundation_appleTV | Apple TV+

Foundation

The TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic trilogy is still fundamentally about the ways in which politics and objective truth inevitably clash.

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