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  In Mary Queen of Scots, Great Women Face Hard Truths About Wielding Power

  December 13 at 4:36 p.m.

  The actresses share only one scene in the film, but Mary Queen of Scots sets them up in counterpoint, two divergent approaches to the question of how women who wield power can actually govern the men around them

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  Cities Roll, Fight and Eat Each Other in the Otherwise Meh Mortal Engines

  December 12 at 2:03 p.m.

  The film plays as if a three-hour epic has been sliced down to size in the editing, but only the scenes establishing character and context have been cut

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  Dee Simmons, aka Mama Dee, Is the Breakout Star of The Real Housewives of Dallas

  December 12 at 4 a.m.

  Dee Simmons doesn’t really give a rip. Or a dog's rip. Or a flip. Or a rat’s ass. Dee Simmons is the larger-than-life, all-knowing and all-giving woman of Dallas society, and she isn’t concerned about what anyone thinks of her. It’s a Friday afternoon when Simmons’ housekeeper opens the front...

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  Into the Spider-Verse Is the Best Superhero Movie Since The Dark Knight

  December 11 at 4 a.m.

  It sets a host of alternative Spider-folk running amok in the New York City of Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, the mixed-race Spider-Man (his father is black and his mother Latinx) invented for the comics in 2011 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli

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  Best Dallas Reality TV Moments of 2018

  December 10 at 4:02 a.m.

  Please don't click off this article because you think you are too good for reality TV. You turn nose up at the thought of Dallas women mouthing off at one another. And you think it's sad some desperate Dallas woman went on TV to get married. Please. You're not too...

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  Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma Is a Masterpiece of Memory

  December 7 at 4 a.m.

  The writer-director shot Roma in chronological order, without showing the cast the script, unveiling it to the actors the same way it is for the audience, piece by piece, a chance to marinate in each moment as it plays out