Erin Schwartz
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TelevisionApril 20, 2023
What “The Last of Us” Could Never Do
The HBO series exposed all the limits of video game adaptations.
Erin Schwartz
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FilmFebruary 8, 2023
The Beautiful and Useless Return of “Avatar”
James Cameron has spent a fortune to bring audiences back to Pandora. Was it worth it?
Erin Schwartz
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FilmJune 30, 2022
The Brutal Verisimilitude of “The Northman”
Robert Eggers’s latest work, a Viking epic, pushes his obsessive and detail-oriented filmmaking to its limit.
Erin Schwartz
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TelevisionMarch 23, 2022
The Patience “Euphoria” Demands
While the HBO show is polarizing and easy to critique, it still manages to expand the genre of teen drama.
Erin Schwartz
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FilmFebruary 22, 2022
The Infinite Possibilities of “Macbeth”
Sparse and beautiful, Joel Coen’s Shakespeare adaptation focuses on why we continue to return to this story of power and downfall.
Erin Schwartz
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FilmNovember 27, 2021
Denis Villeneuve’s Humanistic “Dune”
His adaptation was the first to understand the scale—both intimate and epic—the sci-fi novel required to translate to film.
Erin Schwartz
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FilmNovember 18, 2021
Inside the Hell That Is “The Many Saints of Newark”
All of the things that worked in The Sopranos make its prequel a remarkable slog of a film.
Erin Schwartz
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TelevisionOctober 19, 2021
“Gossip Girl” and the Demented Culture of Fame
HBO’s reboot of the teen drama explores how the rich and famous make their lives consumable for the rest of us.
Erin Schwartz
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FilmAugust 5, 2021
“Zola” and the Limits of the Internet Movie
An adaptation of a viral Twitter thread only scratches the surface of how film storytelling might intersect with life online.
Erin Schwartz
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FilmJuly 14, 2021
The Collective Trauma in ‘Mare of Easttown’
Unlike a standard true crime show, the HBO series focuses less on the mystery at its center and more on the community that must bear its consequences.
Erin Schwartz