Sam Adams writes for the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Onion A.V. Club, Time Out New York, Time Out Chicago, Cowbell and the Philadelphia City Paper. His writing has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, the Boston Globe, the Hollywood Reporter, Salon and Film Comment, as well as the National Society of Film Critics anthology The B List. He thinks Yo La Tengo is the greatest band in the world, but if you don’t, that’s cool.
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