My most reactionary opinion of the year is that The French Dispatch is a delightful confection. If you accept that it's not a movie about the New York but rather about the idea of the New Yorker (or the mythos of The New Yorker) much of the animus against the movie becomes moot
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We were told that they hated us.

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They hate everyone
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it lasted well through the 80s. at least in academia
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post Vietnam malaise and then Iraq War 2
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wonder if immigration from East Asia and Latin America have sparked more interest in those regions of the world. There's also more of an interest in "low culture," while French culture is coded as highbrow in the U.S.
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the CIA was rightly afraid of the creeping influence of Althusser
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Derrida?
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Or Clouseau
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The end of France as a partner in colonialism? (Genuinely not just trying to be cynical)
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