Sam Adams

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Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East

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I wrote about Longlegs and the difference between fear and dread.

A Viral Horror Flick Had the Year’s Best Marketing. The Movie Itself Is Very Different.slate.com Longlegs isn’t designed to scare you. It’s designed to do something else.

I wrote about Longlegs and the difference between fear and dread.

A Viral Horror Flick Had the Year’s Best Marketing. The Movie Itself Is Very Different.slate.com Longlegs isn’t designed to scare you. It’s designed to do something else.

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this is by far the craziest longshot candidate replacement idea I’ve heard, but if the technology’s there I’ll hear them out

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Redbox’s last words.

as the war goes from cold to hot, the worst person on House of the Dragon has never even seen a battlefield.

This Week’s Worst Person in Westeros Isn’t Who Started the War. It’s Who Could’ve Stopped It.slate.com The Dance of the Dragons is fully underway.

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Oh they know what they’re doing here

what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

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I wrote about this season of The Bear, and how pissed off I'd be if my neighborhood sandwich joint suddenly switched to a $200 set menu.

This Season of The Bear Is About What’s Wrong With This Season of The Bearslate.com The Bear is about a restaurant that loses track of what made it popular. Sound familiar?

I wrote about this season of The Bear, and how pissed off I'd be if my neighborhood sandwich joint suddenly switched to a $200 set menu.

This Season of The Bear Is About What’s Wrong With This Season of The Bearslate.com The Bear is about a restaurant that loses track of what made it popular. Sound familiar?

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Every album from The Decemberists

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The goofy girl next door has used her goodwill and Oscar clout to take on increasingly abrasive and alienating roles, and to back some of the weirdest and most exciting filmmakers around. Welcome to Emma Stone’s Freak Era.

Emma Stone Has Changed Her Whole Style of Acting. It’s a Wonder to Behold.slate.com The Kinds of Kindness star isn’t just giving the best performances of her career. She’s doing something else entirely.

I wrote about the blessings of Emma Stone’s Freak Era.

Emma Stone Isn’t Just Giving the Best Performances of Her Career. She’s Doing Something Else Entirely.slate.com The Kinds of Kindness star has changed her whole style of acting. It’s a wonder to behold.

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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones. Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.

Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.www.washingtonpost.com Phone scams are still hugely popular — and they depend entirely on people curious enough to answer.

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As an ALMOST (just a few teeny tiny years short) contemporary of Fleetwood Mac, it would nevertheless be into my 30s before i began to appreciate them at all, and then into my 50s before i realized that i had missed out on something special while growing up. Good article here on Mac & Daisy Jones.

Stereophonic’s Tonys wins are more proof that the making of Rumours has become a bonafide legend.

Why an Almost 50-Year-Old Album Keeps Hooking New Generationsslate.com In part because of a song that’s not even on the album.

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Stereophonic’s Tonys wins are more proof that the making of Rumours has become a bonafide legend.

Why an Almost 50-Year-Old Album Keeps Hooking New Generationsslate.com In part because of a song that’s not even on the album.

Stereophonic’s Tonys wins are more proof that the making of Rumours has become a bonafide legend.

Why an Almost 50-Year-Old Album Keeps Hooking New Generationsslate.com In part because of a song that’s not even on the album.

this is a lot of tech-bro jargon to say “exposure”

Not sure “search” is quite the right name for what’s happening here nymag.com/intelligence...

third Saturday in a row I have placed an order at the bagel place right after another Sam. It’s our time.

inspired by the “live documentaries” of Sam Green, I dug into a new wave of movies that create urgency by offering something that won’t last forever.

If You Don’t See These Movies Now, You Never Willslate.com A growing wave of movies pushes back against the logic of infinite availability.

in its second season, House of the Dragon has found a way to feel more like its own show and less like Game of Thrones: the Early Years

House of the Dragon Is Finally Starting to Feel Like Its Own Showslate.com It’s the small things that make the second season.

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I wrote about how a classical quartet and an extinct songbird made moviegoing feel urgent again.

If You Don’t See These Movies Now, You Never Willslate.com A growing wave of movies pushes back against the logic of infinite availability.

I wrote about how a classical quartet and an extinct songbird made moviegoing feel urgent again.

If You Don’t See These Movies Now, You Never Willslate.com A growing wave of movies pushes back against the logic of infinite availability.

is there … a music festival I’d actually consider going to

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I wrote about Glen Powell, Hit Man, and why romcoms have a Fast and the Furious problem.

The Real Reason Netflix’s New Hit Is Going to Launch a Movie Starslate.com Hollywood has been trying to make Glen Powell a leading man. Hit Man finally figures out how to do it.

I wrote about Glen Powell, Hit Man, and why romcoms have a Fast and the Furious problem.

The Real Reason Netflix’s New Hit Is Going to Launch a Movie Starslate.com Hollywood has been trying to make Glen Powell a leading man. Hit Man finally figures out how to do it.

stray thoughts from the Buffy rewatch: Interesting how early writers get attached to characters/themes. David Greenwalt’s first episode is about Angel; Marti Noxon’s is heavy on Spike and BDSM Dru is just a vamped-up version of Sweeney Todd’s beggar woman

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The Acolyte overpromises and underdelivers, gesturing at exciting ideas, then abandoning them in favor of tepid brand management.

The New Star Wars Show Reveals the Problem With the Whole Star Wars Universeslate.com The Acolyte follows what’s become a familiar pattern.

The Acolyte overpromises and underdelivers, gesturing at exciting ideas, then abandoning them in favor of tepid brand management.

The New Star Wars Show Reveals the Problem With the Whole Star Wars Universeslate.com The Acolyte follows what’s become a familiar pattern.

I wrote about the #1 movie you've never heard of, and how Netflix is doing to movies what Spotify did to music

J. Lo’s Netflix Smash May Be the Future of Movies—but Not in the Way Netflix Thinksslate.com The streaming service’s latest No. 1 hit portends a future blighted by something far worse than bad wigs.

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The Jinx was a cultural phenomenon that solved a decades-old murder. Its six-episode sequel was largely a victory lap for the first part’s achievements: less a whodunit than a wedidit.

The Sequel to One of the Biggest True-Crime Series Ever Just Ended. The Finale Shows What It Could Have Been.slate.com A new villain and approach arrives too late.