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“For all its extravagant run time (three hours and 26 minutes!), its big-swing history lessons, and its tale of an Old West giving way to the regimentation of a modern police force, Killers of the Flower Moon turns out to be that simplest and slipperiest of things: the story of a marriage. And a twisted, tragic one at that.” — Bilge Ebiri, “Killers of the Flower Moon Turns Out to Be the Simplest and Slipperiest of Things”

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  1. backstories
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  2. take two
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  3. smile!
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  4. awards season
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  5. bad view
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  6. a long talk
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  9. fall preview 2023
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  10. close read
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  11. performance review
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    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  12. movie review
    Killers of the Flower Moon Turns Out to Be the Simplest, Slipperiest of ThingsIt’s not Martin Scorsese’s western, and it’s not another gangster epic. It’s his marriage story.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  13. like father like daughter
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  14. golden globes 2024
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  16. trailer mix
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  17. oscar futures
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  18. oscar futures
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  19. awards szn
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  20. best of 2023
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  22. oscar futures
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  23. awards szn
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  27. representation
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  29. classic marty
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  30. representation conversation
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  31. movies fantasy league
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  32. if this was a movie
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  33. oscar futures
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  36. on the record
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  42. capital-c casting
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