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Isaac Butler

Reporter · US

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Latest publication
Sep 30, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Slate
Top 50K sites
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Jul 21, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Isaac Butler

    He Was an Object of Mockery. Now He’s Looking Like the Next Brad Pitt. I Think I Know What Changed. (opens the original)

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    Primetime, the new film from A24 and director Lance Oppenheim about the making of To Catch a Predator, is a fascinating mess, one in which the whole might be less than the sum of its parts, but the parts are so compelling that you don’t really mind. The fault lies with the film’s screenplay, which mashes together three stories with different protagonists, tones, and thematic concerns. One of these stories is about Andie Bender (Merritt Wever), Predator’s producer, and how, as a woman, she has to

  2. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Isaac Butler

    She Won an Oscar—and Received Years of Backlash. Now She’s Finally Stopped Trying to Play Herself. (opens the original)

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    One of the biggest compliments I can pay Anne Hathaway is that in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, she delivers lines like, “Those stories are true. Our civilization is collapsing,” with not only a straight face but utter commitment. As Penelope, Hathaway plays yet another of Nolan’s long-suffering female characters—at least this wife is alive—but manages to locate a full human being mostly absent in the script itself. That she does this while mostly trading dialogue with a totally lost and out-

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