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Pretty girls and accessories to the crime
on “Drive My Car,” translations, and violence that transforms us + new short story publication
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
5 movies to break up to
happy valentine’s day <3 + updates from between two new years
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Did anyone actually watch ‘Materialists’?
On love, bullshit, checking boxes, and why you should watch “Materialists”
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Do you think Daedalus feared he might fall?
Thinking about “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” love, flying, the creative process, and fear at the brink
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
‘12 Angry Men’ and the fiction of debate and justice
Thoughts on jury duty, racist screeds, the marketplace of ideas, and debate me bros
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Ethan Hawke could fix me
On “First Reformed,” capitalism, despair, and being un/underemployed for one year
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Introducing ‘Conflict Kino,’ a film podcast about the imperial periphery
A new project + brief thoughts from inside the imperial core
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
EMMA. (2020) and what we really want from adaptations
I love this film. It is a terrible adaptation, but does that make it terrible film?
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Finding hope in ‘Salò’
A critical reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” and a secret second film
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Can romance survive who you are?
Thoughts on “Before Midnight,” gender performance, and hetero-pessimism
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
Anti-criticism and how to talk about art without talking about art
Why are we so bad at talking about movies like “The Brutalist” and “Anora”?
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
The pope is dying, and I can’t stop thinking about ‘Conclave’
What is the use of liberal art in an age of fascism?
 • Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
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