Movies about the making of 'Chinatown' and 'The Godfather'? Series adaptations of 'Scenes from a Marriage' and 'Rashomon'? What's going on here?

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In the age of pop culture idolatry, Fitzgerald’s “there are no second acts in American lives,” feels more and more mistaken than it already does. Even cancel culture never really cancels anyone permanently (see Mel Gibson), and there’s something in American culture where we’re always rooting and ready to embrace a comeback (within reason. Ben Affleck seems like a prime example and he’s about to be on his third act or second comeback depending on which way you want to look at it.

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