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The Sunday supplement #137

☞ Happy Sunday. So, if you’re watching something at the moment, post The Pitt, post White Lotus, maybe it’s the new season of Hacks (it’s good), maybe it’s the trailer for the new Mission Impossible (I can’t wait)—

But if you’d like to step out of the zeitgeist for a moment, I asked my friend Ashwin to suggest some films, and he chose three movies for five categories: assassinations, movies about movies, tearjerkers, hardboiled heroes, and meet-cutes.