By: Jonathan Lethem

It’s a sort of talisman or conch shell from which Ish derives his authority.

By: Dave Walker

“Only six of these cameras were ever made. Only five of them ever worked. We have four of those.”

By: Madeline Ashby

They’re bargained for and killed for and they’re worth sacrificing marriages for.

By: Dan Fox

The movie’s meaning is dreamily fungible.

By: June Thomas

A classic piece of working-class chic.

By: Vanessa Berry

The marlin seems less like a trophy and more like a familiar.

By: Kio Stark

“She’ll be like one of those robots in Disneyland.”

By: Carolina A. Miranda

He doesn’t so much play the accordion as let it play him.

By: Miranda Mellis

It is liminal, this limo. It is in limbo. Ambivalent, stuck in a rut.

By: Tom Roston

I didn’t understand my watch wasn’t so cool until I saw it on Hall’s wrist.

By: Kio Stark

It’s the only shot in the movie that’s purely about female pleasure.

By: Whitney Bowers

What happens when you’re sick of using all that duct tape?

By: Lynn Peril

Radio in hand, Mandrake heads for General Ripper’s office.

By: Christopher Orr

There’s nothing more foolish than a man chasing his hat.

By: Peggy Nelson

Is it copies all the way down?