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Alissa Wilkinson

Alissa Wilkinson

Former Senior Correspondent + Critic

    Latest articles by Alissa Wilkinson

    Culture
    Charlie Kaufman’s new Netflix film is brilliant. Here’s a guide to a truly innovative filmmaker.Charlie Kaufman’s new Netflix film is brilliant. Here’s a guide to a truly innovative filmmaker.
    Culture

    Where to start with the writer and director’s bizarre, bittersweet movies, including his latest: I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

    By Alissa Wilkinson
    Culture
    “People want to believe”: How Love Fraud builds an absorbing docuseries around a romantic con man“People want to believe”: How Love Fraud builds an absorbing docuseries around a romantic con man
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    The Showtime series is both fascinating and genuinely empowering. Its directors hope it will have an impact.

    By Alissa Wilkinson
    Culture
    This is the most important movie weekend of the yearThis is the most important movie weekend of the year
    Culture

    How Tenet, Mulan, and I’m Thinking of Ending Things perform has broad implications for the future.

    By Alissa Wilkinson
    Culture
    The ancient palindrome that explains Christopher Nolan’s TenetThe ancient palindrome that explains Christopher Nolan’s Tenet
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    A puzzle dug up all over Europe holds the key to Tenet — and turns it into more than a movie.

    By Alissa Wilkinson
    Culture
    Tenet is here. It’s fine.Tenet is here. It’s fine.
    Culture

    Christopher Nolan’s spy thriller looks like it was very hard to make. But it falls a little flat.

    By Alissa Wilkinson
    Culture
    Mulan is coming to Disney+ for an extra $30Mulan is coming to Disney+ for an extra $30
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    Along with Tenet’s staggered release, it’s a sign of change.

    By Alissa Wilkinson
    Culture
    The power of the Black athleteThe power of the Black athlete
    Culture

    “If you know the system is vulnerable, then you can interrupt it,” says High Flying Bird screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney.

    By Alissa Wilkinson
    Culture
    The essential kindness of Bill and TedThe essential kindness of Bill and Ted
    Culture

    The great ones have returned to save the world.

    By Alissa Wilkinson
    Culture
    7 daring movie adaptations of literary classics7 daring movie adaptations of literary classics
    Culture

    And this weekend’s best new releases.

    By Constance Grady, Alissa Wilkinson and 1 more
    The summer without blockbusters
    Culture

    What Hollywood’s big-budget mythmaking spectacles did for America, and why it’s all changing.

    By Alissa Wilkinson