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samadams.bsky.social
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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you know another 33-year-old man who shocked the establishment when he pulled off a miracle?

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

The path for Democrats is very clear: have good ideas, believe in them, state them clearly, stick to them, act decisively in support of these ideas, speak to the young half of the electorate, support other democrats who do these things. Follow Mamdani and Lander's example or fade into nothingness.

submitted 7 hours ago • 36 comments

these people are already terrified to set foot in midtown, what do they care

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.

submitted 7 hours ago • 32 comments

Important to reflect on how relentlessly Mandani's foes strove to pin "antisemitism" on him—and how miserably the tactic flopped, in New York City, the world capitol of the Jewish diaspora. There's a lesson here. A lot of us (and by "us" I mean Jews) have had it with this shit.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

urge to have opinion about local election… rising

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Hey New York

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Six months ago, we had Big Balls, hope, and cash

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

This is a dazzling piece by Amy Taubin on the eighth episode of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return.” It’s criticism at its absolute finest. @amyornot.bsky.social mubi.com/en/program-n...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

No charges for the driver, because it’s just understood that the streets are for two-ton people-squashing machines and anyone who gets in their way is taking their life in their hands.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

makes me a little leery of this story that the guy's name is "Mads Mikkelsen"

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

Zohran remains SILENT on “Trix are for kids”

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

I loved Eldorado Drive. Exquisite bad vibes, like if Jim Thompson wrote about Amway.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

He really thinks this is his Nobel

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I refuse to sully the perfection of my ballot by actually picking 10 movies and removing it from the realm of infinite possibility

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Cuomo ‘25: Sugar. In. Water.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

liberal Joe Rogan just dropped

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

BIG NEWS: This morning, @kphipps3000.bsky.social and I have moved The Reveal from Substack to Ghost. You can get the details in the link below. It was a scary decision for us, but we're excited about it and expect to keep this newsletter going long into the future. thereveal.film/the-reveal-h...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

I will always think of heat like this as Do the Right Thing weather

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

A reminder to check on your elderly neighbors today, but another, more important reminder that many of them will have rigged their homes with traps, waiting for a moment just like this to lure you in. Also, stay hydrated!

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

War … gee, I don’t know

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it

submitted 2 days ago • 423 comments

not to rain on anyone’s parade, but while it’s great to see an overwhelming percentage of Americans don’t think we should go to war with Iran, it’s important to add that a substantial percentage of them aren’t sure if dropping bombs on Iran qualifies as war.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

American Horror Story: America Measles is tearing through whole families (unvaccinated) in Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

this was a blast, with loads of people who’d never seen the film before. If time can redeem Death Becomes Her, What Lies Beneath deserves better than a 3.2 on Letterboxd. And my goodness, that Michelle Pfeiffer performance. God-tier.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

so it’s a war when Iran needs to end it but not when we’re bombing them?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments