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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
On TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2138...
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Jane Schoenbrun’s Love Letter to Teen Horror
“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” is gently eerie and filled with longing.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Some news:
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Toronto! On March 31 I'll be hosting a chat at @torontolibrary with Daniel Kraus about his terrific new book PARTIALLY DEVOURED, about the history and legacy of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Sign up below. www.eventbrite.ca/e/daniel-kra...
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Daniel Kraus: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life
Join bestselling horror writer Daniel Kraus as he discusses the zombie classic Night of the Living Dead with film critic Adam Nayman.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Starting on March 24 I'm beginning a virtual lecture series with @torontolibrary on modern fairy tales on film. The first episode is about Phantom Thread, with guests Haley Mlotek and Manuela Lazic; information below. eventbrite.ca/e/modern-fai...
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Modern Fairy Tales on Film: Phantom Thread
Join host Adam Nayman as he discusses P.T. Anderson's masterpiece with critics Manuela Lazic and Haley Mlotek.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
On “Wuthering Heights,” for @the-ringer.bsky.social ” www.theringer.com/2026/02/17/m...
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Emerald Fennell’s Pursuit of Provocation
‘Wuthering Heights’ promised to revel in bad taste, but was ultimately afraid to get its hands dirty—a recurring theme in the British director’s filmography
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Talked to Matt Johnson about lenticular storytelling, being annoying, and studying Norman McClaren in film class mubi.com/en/notebook/...
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Notes from the Peanut Factory: Matt Johnson on “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie”
Toronto’s most dynamic alt-comedy duo leaps to the silver screen (and travels through time…and scales the CN Tower).
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overall deal inker @brendanowicz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
In @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social today with the third installment of The Biden Years On-Screen with pal and mentor @brofromanother.bsky.social. nobody better. thx Ellie Eberlee, AJ Urquidi and @paulxt.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/joe-...
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Sounds of Freedom: The Biden Years On-Screen, Part Three | Los Angeles Review of Books
The third installment of ‘The Biden Years On-Screen’ considers the cinematic fallout of cancel culture, the overruling of Roe v. Wade, and the 2022 midterm elections.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
On Jim Jarmusch’s lo fi enigma machine FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2051...
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The Subtle Mysteries of Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother
The movie, starring Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett, probes a web of quietly intriguing family relationships.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
on HAMNET, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Something Is Rotten in Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet”
The movie starring Paul Mescal makes the life of Shakespeare a melodrama.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
On SENTIMENTAL VALUE, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2025...
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“Sentimental Value” Is an Upper-Middle-Brow Crowd Pleaser
Joachim Trier’s skillful, literate movies tick a lot of boxes.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
On FRANKENSTEIN for @newrepublic newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Plays It Too Safe
The Netflix movie, starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, is lavish and meticulous—and strangely hollow.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
On Kathryn Bigelow's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/10/22/m...
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In ‘A House of Dynamite,’ the End of the World Is Ho Hum
Kathryn Bigelow’s latest feature, hitting Netflix this weekend, documents doomsday from the too-static confines of a situation room
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
On Luca Guadagnino's enervating AFTER THE HUNT, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2011...
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After the Hunt Would Like to Touch a Nerve
Director Luca Guadagnino has turned transgression into its own sort of comfort zone.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
On Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS ONLY AN ACCIDENT, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2011...
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Jafar Panahi’s Revenge Road Trip Masterpiece
“It Was Just An Accident” reckons with cruelty and repression.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is next Tuesday afternoon; excited to talk about this group of movies. Hope you'll consider joining the session. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/sunke...
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Sunken Places: Hypnosis in Horror Cinema (Online) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
Horror cinema's obsession with mind-controlling mesmerists illuminates something essential – and unsettling – about the very nature of film spectatorship.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
On Paul Thomas Anderson's phenomenal ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/09/24/m...
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‘One Battle After Another’ Is Paul Thomas Anderson at His Best
A director who never misses is back with his most urgent film to date, about the messed up world we’re passing on to our children
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A few years ago I did an online lecture for @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on SPOORLOOS and had a blast; in October, I'll be doing another one on motifs of hypnosis in horror cinema, including clips from THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, CANDYMAN, CURE and GET OUT. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/sunke...
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Sunken Places: Hypnosis in Horror Cinema (Online) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
Horror cinema's obsession with mind-controlling mesmerists illuminates something essential – and unsettling – about the very nature of film spectatorship.
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Sean Fennessey @seanfennessey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
EDDINGTON is the movie of the year. Maybe of the decade. Amanda, @brofromanother.bsky.social, and I dive into it on The Big Picture. Then Ari Aster joins me to talk about his new film. open.spotify.com/episode/3dSC...
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Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Is a Mirror. Like What You See?
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
On SUPERMAN, for @the-ringer.bsky.social
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
There’s no discharge in a war, and no iPhone charger, either. On Danny Boyles’s goofy and moving 28 YEARS LATER for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/06/20/m...
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‘28 Years Later’ Is Infectious
Two decades removed from the frenetic glory of the first films, anything was possible with a return to the franchise. Consider what we got a best-case scenario.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
On Celine Song's MATERIALISTS, for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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Materialists review: Match me if you can
Celine Song’s second feature starring Dakota Johnson as a matchmaker for rich New Yorkers aims for screwball velocity, but the dialogue keeps missing the mark.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
fantastic piece. Parts of Materialists bothered me in ways that reminded me of one of my least favourite movies ever (Up in the Air).
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
On THE REHEARSAL season 2, for @thewalrus.ca
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Tried to take Avery on a set of failed adventures today (TTC delays, fire station not open to visitors, lousy weather). Apologized to her as we limped home in the grey. “It’s ok, it was fun to be out, don’t worry.” Occasionally life is perfect.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
For @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy on THE STUDIO, which nibbles the hand that feeds
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
On THE WOMAN IN THE YARD, www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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The Woman in the Yard review: no garden variety horror
Director Jaume Collet-Serra brings an expressionist touch to a domestic horror about a grieving family featuring terrific lead performance from Danielle Deadwyler.
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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
From his Iceman in Top Gun to an uncanny Jim Morrison in The Doors, Van Kilmer was a gifted Method man known for his heart-on-sleeve weirdness and myriad eccentricities. By @brofromanother.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/features/val...
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Val Kilmer obituary: mercurial A-lister who toggled between total immersion and resistance
From his Iceman in Top Gun to an uncanny Jim Morrison in The Doors, Kilmer was a gifted Method man known for his heart-on-sleeve weirdness and myriad eccentricities.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Here is the first instalment of a new monthly essay series for @the-ringer.bsky.social , co-written by myself and @manilazic.bsky.social we’ve made a list of 10 films from the last 25 years that we wanted to go back and forth about; first up, THE LORD OF THE RINGS www.theringer.com/2025/03/28/m...
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21st-Century Cinema in Review: ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’
Kicking off a yearlong series about the movies that defined the last 25 years of filmmaking, two critics tackle the one blockbuster to rule them all
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Collaborating with @brendanowicz.bsky.social on a four part series on Biden era cinema for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social; part one is out today
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The Irishman and the Empty Man: The Biden Years On-Screen, Part One | Los Angeles Review of Books
In the first installment of a quarterly series, Brendan Boyle and Adam Nayman use two films as a lens on the Biden years.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I have a David Lynch story: www.theringer.com/2025/01/16/m...
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In Dreams, David Lynch Walked With Us
The iconic director who spanned generations, built worlds unto their own, and redefined multiple forms of media, passed away at the age of 78
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
On Michael Gracey’s kamikaze, schlock-expressionist pop musical BETTER MAN, which exists beyond good and evil, and which I quite enjoyed. For @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/01/07/m...
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Robbie Williams Has a Biopic. In It, He’s Played by a Monkey.
‘Better Man’ is as bonkers as it sounds—and there’s something respectable about that
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
For @the-ringer.bsky.social, a video essay on the year's best films, featuring HERE, TRAP, THE BEAST, JUROR NO. 2 and RED ROOMS www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGEL...
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The Top 10 Films of 2024, According to Adam Nayman | Video Essays | Ringer Movies
YouTube video by Ringer Movies
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Just read this terrific book cover to cover; a study worthy of its subject, which happens to be one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen. Lucid, meticulous, imaginative and controlled criticism, if you like CURE it’s a must read
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Chuck Palahniuk getting paid by the word
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
On Robert Eggers' drained, enervating NOSFERATU, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2024/12/23/m...
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‘Nosferatu’ Is Accomplished and Masterful (Derogatory)
Robert Eggers’s take on the centuries-old vampire tale shows, once again, his knack for meticulous filmmaking. The question is whether he’s found any heart in his own studied construction.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
On James Mangold’s burnished and earnest A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, which sends Bob Dylan freewheeling down the middle of the road, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1889...
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A Complete Unknown Misses the Elusive Genius of Bob Dylan
The biopic starring Timothée Chalamet is a star-is-born fable viewed with 20/20 hindsight and through rose-tinted glasses.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
On Brady Corbet's THE BRUTALIST, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2024/12/18/m...
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‘The Brutalist’ Is an Achievement—and It Knows It
No other American movie released this year can compete as an object of potential film-cultural worship (even if, at times, worship seems to be the goal)
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
On some images that stuck with me this year, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2024/12/17/m...
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The Best Shots of 2024
In a screenshot-happy world, these filmmakers and cinematographers behind ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ and beyond provided singular glimpses that speak to the whole of their works
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
@carriecoon.bsky.social often on big pic with sean; I’d like to ask the first couple of physical media a couple of questions for a project I’m working on, easily DM’d here (I think)
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“My dad got a package with a dog treat from a movie called Babygirl” - Lea to all the other parents outside school
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
On the best films of 2024, for @the-ringer.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2024/12/10/m...
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The Best Movies of 2024
In a year defined by anxiety, the movies that broke through were the ones that managed to capture such a grim outlook with bizarre, bitter humor
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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A review of The Witch (2015)
Before he was a dual-use punching bag/poster boy for people—like yourself, dear reader—with the exactly correct opinions about "elevated horror," (some of it is ok!) Robert Eggers was a smart young di...
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Tonight at 7 pm EST, @seanfennessey.bsky.social and I will be hosting a watch along of SEE NO EVIL on Galerie. Use the code SPEAKNOEVIL for a free first month, plus 50% off the next three months; the site hosts a lot of wonderful film writing and is worth trying out. www.galerie.com/discover
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Galerie
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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Woman in Chains (1968)
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas...
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“Sorry, Dad, the mob has spoken” - Avery
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overall deal inker @brendanowicz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
NEWS: Biden becomes first President to visit “The Veldt”.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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A review of The Last Showgirl (2024)
Let the record show that a delicate and strange Canadian feature called The People Garden, written and directed by Nadia Litz, already got around to excavating the fertile mystique of Pamela Anderson ...
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Eight years ago this evening, I ended up rushing to the hospital with my basketball stuff in a gym bag - and nothing else of any use at all - because Lea decided to be born six weeks early. Doesn't seem possible it's been that long.
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Here’s Here reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
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Author - About - Reverse Shot
Museum of the Moving Image presents Reverse Shot: a different angle on moving images—past, present, and future
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Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
For Recliner, some thoughts on Warren Zevon reclinermag.com/issue/4/paid...
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The Indifference of Heaven: Warren Zevon
Adam Nayman in RECLINER
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