Gary Susman
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Gary Susman

Gary Susman has been covering movies and TV for more than 25 years and has been a Moviefone columnist since 2009. He is a former senior writer at Entertainment Weekly, where he helped launch the award-winning PopWatch blog. He has written about entertainment for such outlets as Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, People, CNN, MSNBC, Life, The Village Voice, The Guardian, The Chicago Sun-Times, and The Boston Phoenix. He has been a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics since 1993. He is one of the authors of the 2011 book "LIFE 75 Years: The Very Best of LIFE."

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Oscars 2017 Nominations: The 11 Biggest Snubs and Surprises

Oscars 2017 Nominations: The 11 Biggest Snubs and Surprises

The 2017 Oscar nominations yielded a fairly predictable group of trophy candidates, with "La La Land," "Moonlight," and...

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5 Reasons Why 'Split' Crushed Vin Diesel's 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage'

5 Reasons Why 'Split' Crushed Vin Diesel's 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage'

Do today's moviegoers even remember what the movie landscape was like 15 years ago? That's how long it's been since Vin...

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The Oscars' Latest Change Is Really Making Hollywood Upset

The Oscars' Latest Change Is Really Making Hollywood Upset

Forget #OscarsSoWhite. There's a new marginalized group of industry professionals complaining that the Academy is shutti...

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19 Things You Never Knew About 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

19 Things You Never Knew About 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'

"Oo-ee-oo-ee-oo, wah-WAH-wah..." Half a century later, Ennio Morricone's theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" rem...

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5 Reasons Why 'Hidden Figures' Crushed 'Patriots Day' at the Box Office

5 Reasons Why 'Hidden Figures' Crushed 'Patriots Day' at the Box Office

This was supposed to be a coronation weekend for "Patriots Day." The thriller about the capture of the terrorists behind...

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Get Ready for the Most Important Oscar Race Ever

Get Ready for the Most Important Oscar Race Ever

If you thought the annual movie awards race exists in a Hollywood bubble, unconnected to the real world, Sunday night's...

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Golden Globes 2017: The 11 Best (and Worst) Moments

Golden Globes 2017: The 11 Best (and Worst) Moments

There was a lot of dramatic plunging going on at Sunday's 74th Golden Globes, and we don't just mean the necklines of se...

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Here's How 'Hidden Figures' Crushed Expectations at the Box Office

Here's How 'Hidden Figures' Crushed Expectations at the Box Office

There's a fascinating series of articles in this weekend's Los Angeles Times, inspired by the media's spectacular failur...

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Golden Globes 2017: Who Will (and Should) Win This Year

Golden Globes 2017: Who Will (and Should) Win This Year

It can be tough predicting the whims of the 90 or so journalists in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who pick the...

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The 8 Biggest Box Office Winners (and Losers) of 2016

The 8 Biggest Box Office Winners (and Losers) of 2016

Sure, 2016's domestic box office did hit a record $11.3 billion, up a modest 1.7 percent from 2015's record take. But th...

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16 Things You Never Knew About 'Dirty Harry'

16 Things You Never Knew About 'Dirty Harry'

Do you feel lucky? Well, do you, punk? If you do, then it's time to celebrate the 45th anniversary of "Dirty Harry," rel...

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15 Things You Never Knew About Steve Martin's 'Father of the Bride'

15 Things You Never Knew About Steve Martin's 'Father of the Bride'

What's not to like about "Father of the Bride," which celebrates its 25th anniversary this week (it was released on Dece...

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'Rogue One' Opened Huge, but Could It Have Opened Bigger?

'Rogue One' Opened Huge, but Could It Have Opened Bigger?

It's not like anyone at Disney is complaining (publicly, at least) about the estimated $155.0 million that "Rogue One: A...

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17 Things You Never Knew About 'A Clockwork Orange'

17 Things You Never Knew About 'A Clockwork Orange'

"A Clockwork Orange" was Stanley Kubrick's most controversial movie, and that's saying something for a career that inclu...

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2017 Golden Globe Nominations: The 5 Biggest Snubs and Surprises

2017 Golden Globe Nominations: The 5 Biggest Snubs and Surprises

That sound you heard after Don Cheadle, Laura Dern, and Anna Kendrick read out the names of this year's Golden Globes no...

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21 Things You Never Knew About 'Jerry Maguire'

21 Things You Never Knew About 'Jerry Maguire'

"Jerry Maguire" had us at hello. Released 20 years ago this week (on December 13, 1996), Cameron Crowe's sports-themed r...

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6 Reasons Why 'Office Christmas Party' Lost the Top Spot to 'Moana'

6 Reasons Why 'Office Christmas Party' Lost the Top Spot to 'Moana'

This weekend, there was actually some suspense in the race to the top of the box office chart. Some pundits expected "Of...

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16 Things You Didn't Know About 'Hook'

16 Things You Didn't Know About 'Hook'

A lot of Lost Boys and Girls have grown up and had kids of their own since the release of "Hook" 25 years ago this week,...

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Here's Why 'Moana' Will Rule the Box Office... Until 'Rogue One'

Here's Why 'Moana' Will Rule the Box Office... Until 'Rogue One'

Maybe you prefer your Thanksgiving dinner carved from the turkey breast or thigh. But at the movie theater in the weeken...

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13 Things You Didn't Know About 'Ocean's 11'

13 Things You Didn't Know About 'Ocean's 11'

Back in 1960, when Peter Lawford pitched him the Vegas heist script for the original "Ocean's 11," Frank Sinatra reporte...

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Here's How 'Moana' Crushed the Competition at the Box Office

Here's How 'Moana' Crushed the Competition at the Box Office

Disney's "Moana" had plenty to be thankful for over the holiday weekend, but for all the other new releases that went up...

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