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Olivia Rutigliano

Olivia Rutigliano
Olivia Rutigliano is the Associate Editor of LitHub's CrimeReads vertical and the Senior Film Writer at LitHub. In addition to Lit Hub and CrimeReads, her work appears in Vanity Fair, Lapham's Quarterly, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, PBS Television, and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate and the Marion E. Ponsford fellow in the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature and entertainment.


Bodies Bodies Bodies is a Vicious Parody of Online Culture and a Tight Little Murder Mystery

Olivia Rutigliano on the New Film Based on a Story by Kristen Roupenian
August 5, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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Nope is a Masterclass on Our Relationship to Entertainment

Olivia Rutigliano on Jordan Peele’s Rich New Sci-fi Film
July 22, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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In Praise of the Simple Beauties of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Olivia Rutigliano on the New Movie About the Internet's Favorite Anthropomorphic Mollusk
July 1, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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Frances Ha is All Grown Up

Olivia Rutigliano on the Greta Gerwig Coming-of-Age Comedy Ten Years Later
May 27, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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Was You’ve Got Mail Trying to Warn Us About the Internet? (Or Telling Us to Give Up?)

Olivia Rutigliano on the Rise of Amazon.com, Corporate Homogenization, and the
90s Rom Com in the Middle of It All
May 20, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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After an uncertain week, The Believer is returning home to McSweeney’s!

May 16, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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What are these serial killer subplots doing in Nora Ephron movies?

May 13, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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Dispatches from this year’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.

April 25, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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On the High-Flying Self-Actualization of The Flight Attendant’s Second Season

Olivia Rutigliano on the Continuation of HBO Max's Espionage Comedy
April 15, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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🚨BREAKING🚨 Nicolas Cage’s favorite literary character is Dimitri Karamazov.

April 13, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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Turns out, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote an episode of Veronica Mars.

April 7, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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Charles Dickens was an amateur magician who often performed at his friends’ kids’ birthday parties.

April 5, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is a Technical Masterpiece, Despite its Sprawling Script

Olivia Rutigliano on the Adaptation of a Classic Mid-Century Musical
March 25, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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CODA is a Moving Representation of the Many Varieties of Expression

Olivia Rutigliano on the Best Picture Contender
March 24, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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With Belfast, Kenneth Branagh Hits Peak Irresistible

Olivia Rutigliano on Branagh’s Sentimental New Film
March 22, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Samuel L. Jackson Plays the Role of a Lifetime

Olivia Rutigliano on the New Adaptation of Walter Mosley’s Novel
March 11, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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The Batman is a Dark and Fascinating Riddle

Matt Reeves’s New Film is First and Foremost a Detective Story
March 11, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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On the Coen Brothers’ Bitter, Brokenhearted Noir,
Miller’s Crossing

Olivia Rutigliano Reflects on the Classic Gangster Film as It Heads to the Criterion Collection
February 9, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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On The Afterparty and the Rise of the “Millennial Whodunnit”

Olivia Rutigliano Takes Stock of the Star-Studded New Show
January 28, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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The Tragedy of Macbeth is a Breathtaking Exercise in Transformation

Olivia Rutigliano on Joel Coen’s New Shakespearean Adaptation
January 14, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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