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Ten Years of Emotion
The Carly Rae Jepsen album that changed everything (for me).
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Andrew Truong
Meals on Wheels
Reviews of “Boys Go to Jupiter” and “Souleymane’s Story,” plus the delivery app-to-AI slop pipeline.
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Andrew Truong
Genghis to City: Drop Dead + Tomato Szn Approaching
Brief reviews of "The Fall of Otrar" and "Night of the Juggler," plus some tomatoes I ate last week. At the Movies & In the Kitchen: August 5
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Andrew Truong
Rock & Ruin
A review of A24’s (literal) rock documentary “Architecton,” plus my August movie agenda.
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Andrew Truong
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July 2025

​​​​Tie Me Up! Don’t Tie Me Down!
“Oh, Hi!,” a relationship farce starring Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman, speaks to modern dating anxieties in a post-COVID context.
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Andrew Truong
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Nights of Being Wild
Set in 1990s Saigon, “Skin of Youth” connects a tumultuous queer romance to Vietnam’s transition towards economic liberalization.
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Andrew Truong
Three Days in Cannes
A film and travel dispatch from the Côte d'Azur. Or, what twelve movies in three days does to a cinephile.
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Byron Lo
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God to Give It Up
An essay on Hard to Be a God, a three-hour, black and white Russian film that sounds like a movie invented to mock cinephiles. Plus: the story of…
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Andrew Truong
Unsettled
With these sharply observed character-driven stories that touch on hot-button political issues, Mahdi Fleifel and Alexandra Simpson's debut narrative…
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Andrew Truong
My First Food Pop-Up is Next Week + Stuff I Did in June
Seasonal Asian veggies, missing the Song of the Summer, Ghost Quartet in Green-Wood Cemetery (Kernels, June 1 - 30, 2025)
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Andrew Truong
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Materialists Schemes and Phoenician Cuisines
Freeform thoughts on early summer movies, feat. Materialists, The Phoenician Scheme, Mission: Impossible, Elio, and Sorry, Baby.
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Andrew Truong

June 2025

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