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Alissa Wilkinson @ Vox · 05/10/2023 13:05 EDT

Hollywood is in its business-guy era

Ben Affleck as Nike founder Phil Knight in Air. | Prime VideoScammers are over. It’s time to make some deals. Only Hollywood could make me cheer for a sneaker. Or a pocket-size email terminal. Or the legal rights to a video game landing in the hands of a slightly hapless, doggedly determined, bespectacled and genial guy. I rarely think about these things and barely care, but the job of a movie is to make me care, and for whatever reason, this spring they’re trying remarkably hard.
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