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“Michael,” Harry Potter and the death of the problematic fave

"Michael" and the Potterverse are booming. Apparently, we're done feeling bad about what that means

Published May 14, 2026 12:00PM (EDT)

Recently, one of my best friends asked me if I’d seen “Michael,” Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic that Salon’s movie critic Coleman Spilde hailed as “so damn weird.” This person knows me better than nearly everyone else on the planet, so I quickly figured out that she didn’t really care whether I’d seen “Michael” or, if I had, what I thought about it. What she was looking for, without explicitly saying so, was a kind of permission I’m in no position to offer, nor would I want to be. I had not seen “Michael,” I told her, nor did I plan to, and I certainly wouldn’t think differently of her if she chose to do so.

But, I added, regardless of what it did for her, it doesn’t change the weight of multiple claims of child sexual abuse that have been made against the star since his death in 2009.

Art can have immutable significance to us regardless of what its creators are alleged to have done; thus, the supposed absolution offered by the notion of separating the art from the artist. What changes are our parameters of understanding.

There is simply no arguing with Jackson’s enduring sway over audiences. The King of Pop holds a singular place in popular culture and our collective memory. To date, “Michael” has taken in........

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