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Jun 2024
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Paul Scheer Picks the Very Best of the V...

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
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The co-host of “How Did This Get Made?” enlightens David Remnick on the art of terrible film. Plus, the New Yorker film critic Justin Chang praises Coppola’s divisive “Megalopolis.” 
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