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1. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · GEORGE PRENTICE

   SCREEN: How lunch with ‘Marty’ became the funniest documentary of the year (opens the original)

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   By now, you know that I take these essays on movies quite personally. From very early on, my relationship with film has evolved to be the great love affair of my life. That’s not to say that I occasionally look at my dispatches to you as consumer reporting. Full admission to an evening at the cinema has become a considerable expense of late. But more often than not, I’m looking for something that touches my heart. And when a movie finds an as-of-yet unoccupied corner of my soul, and nestles

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2. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · GEORGE PRENTICE

   SCREEN: Shouldn’t ‘Tony’ be a dish served colder? (opens the original)

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   The first time many of us heard of Anthony Bourdain was the summer of 1999 in the pages of The New Yorker. He had sent an unsolicited essay to the magazine, titled “Don’t Eat Before Reading This.” Within a year, he would use the essay as a foundation for what would be a runaway bestseller in 2000: “Kitchen Confidential.” The New York Times raved. “This is one bitter, nasty, searing, hard-to-swallow piece of work,” wrote the Times’ Thomas McNamee. “But if you can choke the thing

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3. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · GEORGE PRENTICE

   SCREEN: Bar none, ‘The Invite’ is the funniest movie in a very long while (opens the original)

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   The last thing you’ll hear in “The Invite” (and let’s be clear: you WILL hear it, because if you don’t see “The Invite,” I’ll never talk to you again) is the 1930s jazz standard, “I’m Confessin’ That I Love You.” I won’t tell you who’s playing the song. I won’t even tell you if more than one person is plunking out the tune on a piano. No, what matters here is the title of the song and the act of “confession.” You see, the film’s story that has played out in th

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4. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · GEORGE PRENTICE

   SCREEN: Bar none, ‘The Invite’ is the funniest movie in a very long while (opens the original)

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   The last thing you’ll hear in “The Invite” (and let’s be clear: you WILL hear it, because if you don’t see “The Invite,” I’ll never talk to you again) is the 1930s jazz standard, “I’m Confessin’ That I Love You.” I won’t tell you who’s playing the song. I won’t even tell you if more than one person is plunking out the tune on a piano. No, what matters here is the title of the song and the act of “confession.” You see, the film’s story that has played out in th

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