After much consideration, I did the thing (in alphabetical order):
Kevin Slane
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✍️ Boston.com and Boston Globe; ✊ Boston Newspaper Guild; 🍅-approved critic.
Happy 10th birthday to this great moment in college football history
What happened to The Numbers — a free, independently run website for current and historic box office data — is a microcosm for how AI is rapidly destroying the free internet. stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...
Don't say goodbye to the Tartan Army just yet, Boston. www.boston.com/sports/world...
Will Scotland play a third World Cup match at Boston Stadium? The odds are looking good.
Will Scotland play a third game at Boston Stadium if they finish third in Group C? Here's what the World Cup math says could happen.
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I thought the world cup was going to be a nightmare, but I forgot that we actually love when people like us
Great piece on @boston.com this morning by Iraqi soccer journalist Hassanin Mubarak: "No one walked a longer, tougher road to the 2026 World Cup than Iraq" www.boston.com/sports/world...
No one walked a longer, tougher road to the 2026 World Cup than Iraq
No one walked a longer, tougher road to the 2026 World Cup than Iraq. The Middle Eastern nation returns for the first time since 1986.
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I don't live in Wisconsin anymore, but I still managed to write a eulogy for Schlitz, the 177-year-old beer that was a load-bearing libation for me in college. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/21/l...
A eulogy for Schlitz, the cheap beer that made me a beer lover - The Boston Globe
The last batch of the 177-year-old beer will be brewed this weekend.
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Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos
This is the Alysa Liu performance everyone is talking about, and yes, you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
imagine watching this and not thinking that this is the whole goddamn reason to even *have* America
Brian Coulter@philabcoulter.bsky.social · 9mo agoBest TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/
allow me to take you on a journey where, once again, we learn we have no idea what’s in our food. at least we know corporations are pure of heart so I’m sure it’s fine🫶🏼🤡
TikTok video by kaelin
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What idiot named it THE BEATLES — A FOUR-FILM CINEMATIC EVENT instead of ONE BEATLE AFTER ANOTHER
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
LMAO MassLive wrote an article about Liam Gallagher of Oasis performing at an Irish bar in Boston, but it was actually just an Oasis cover band. web.archive.org/web/20251017...
I have gathered my thoughts and turned it into a fun blog about how IMDb is hell. I hope you like a long, under-explained list of movie ratings. aftermath.site/imdb-review-...
The Sweet Spot Of IMDb Is 6.3-7.6 - Aftermath
IMDb's scoring system is useless and conceptually poor, unless you account for that ahead of time and assume it's wrong.
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Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 12mo agoMy grand theory is that 6.5 is the ideal rating on IMDb for an interesting movie because it means it alienated idiots. If you’d like proof: Almost every Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie is rated between 6.3-6.9.
“One Battle After Another” is PTA's most purely entertaining film to date, an alchemic mix of political intrigue, thrilling action, and giddy comedy, all undergirded by some of the most technically spectacular filmmaking in recent memory. Review: www.boston.com/culture/movi...
Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:
Don't stop believing
Some news, as they say
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Sometimes I use Letterboxd for more than just a pithy one-liner or a way to link to my already-published reviews. This was one of those times. letterboxd.com/enricopalazz...
A ★★★★★ review of The Straight Story (1999)
Story time. Though I've lived most of my life in the Boston area, I was born in Wisconsin. My entire extended family is/was there, so for three weeks each summer (and to a lesser extent, for 4 years o...
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For the past 10 days, our readers have been voting in Massachusetts Movie Madness, our 32-film bracket to determine the best Bay State movie ever made. If you feel strongly about either Jaws or Good Will Hunting, there's still time to vote! www.boston.com/tag/best-bos...
Bracket: What is the best Boston movie?
What's the best movie ever filmed in Massachusetts? Help us decide by weighing in on the bracket below from June 9-19. 🎬
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“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” is a flawed, overstuffed, vainglorious monument to radical self-belief. But when Ethan Hunt looks you dead in the eye and says, “I’m the only one who can do this,” you believe him.
‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ is Tom Cruise at his best and his worst
"Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning" review: Tom Cruises saves this messy movie from being a total disaster.
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Seems like I'm in the minority among critics, but I didn't love Murderbot, despite the obvious personal resonance. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/15/a...
‘Murderbot’ would rather be watching TV - The Boston Globe
The new Apple TV+ series stars Alexander Skarsgård as a human/robot hybrid who struggles with human interaction.
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“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” is a flawed, overstuffed, vainglorious monument to radical self-belief. But when Ethan Hunt looks you dead in the eye and says, “I’m the only one who can do this,” you believe him.
‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ is Tom Cruise at his best and his worst
"Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning" review: Tom Cruises saves this messy movie from being a total disaster.
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