Emma Myers

Emma Myers is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She has an MA in Film Studies from Columbia University and is a regular contributor to Film Comment and Indiewire.

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MUST-SEE

‘Toni Erdmann’: Year’s Best Foreign Film

Writer-director Maren Ade’s latest is a riotous comedy—with real emotional stakes behind every joke.

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GLASS CEILING

Mad Men’s High-Heeled Rebel Army

The perseverant women of the Mad Men universe—its secretaries—provide one of the show’s more pointed critiques of chauvinism. Let’s raise a glass to the unheralded ladies.

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Little Girl Blue

The Secret Life of Nina Simone

Before her roaring performance at the 1976 Montreaux Jazz Festival, Nina Simone was a star dimensioned by near bankruptcy and self-imposed exile. A new documentary asks What Happened, Miss Simone?

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Literary

The Nicest Jerk You’ll Ever Meet

In Listen Up Philip, Jason Schwartzman plays a self-involved, unfiltered, and cantankerous artist who makes audiences go, ‘Wow, that guy is awful, but I see why girls like him.’

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Funny Face

‘Visitors’ Is Staring At You

Twelve years after finishing the groundbreaking Koyaanisqatsi trilogy, Godfrey Reggio’s new documentary looks at what the human face—and the act of looking at human faces—tells us about ourselves.

Emma Myers