How Should We Think About Michael Jackson?
The new biopic Michael presents a sanitized, crowd-pleasing portrait of Michael Jackson’s life, drawing criticism for ignoring the serious child sexual abuse allegations that defined the final decades of his legacy. Director Dan Reed, whose 2019 HBO documentary Leaving Neverland detai
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