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From the director of poor things and the favorite.

It all starts with something magnificent.

Comes the film critics are calling,

explosively entertaining.

Think of it like you abducted the governor, but worse.

How can you tell she's an alien?

Emma Stone and Jesse Plymouth are dynamite.

The signs are obvious.

Where is my hair?

It's a modern masterpiece, five stars.

I know who you are.

I know you too, Teddy.

Bagonia in Cinema's October 31st.

Book tickets.

This episode is brought to you by our friends Babel. Got any fun trips coming up? This is the summer.

You should be on the road. And one thing you probably haven't put in your packing list is learning the language.

But with Babel, you can start talking in just a few weeks. You can choose from a wide variety of languages. I see Italian, where I'll be

going for my summer holiday this year on the list. There's also Turkish, where I went last year,

where I really, really wish that I had better Turkish than I do. Indonesian would have been

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