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Mar 2022
47m 30s

The Power of the Dog

THE ATLANTIC
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The Jane Campion western drama The Power of the Dog is the most Oscar-nominated film this year. But does it—as Spencer Kornhaber has written—have a queer problem? Based on a 1967 novel, the movie’s found praise as an incisive study of masculinity. Does its dated source material also make it a collection of cliched gay narrative though? Spencer joins Shirley ... Show More
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