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Now showing — The Sellout · 5 works
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A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's *The Sellout* showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relatio...
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Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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A troubled Parisian boy's struggle against family and school. The iconic final freeze frame.
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The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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