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Jan 17, 2021
Seven recent films help commemorate King's legacy in fighting for racial justice.
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Jan 16, 2021
If you're looking for some escapism, these films are a good reminder that democracy works.
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Jan 16, 2021
The casting has fueled a debate about structural racism and fanned anger about stereotyping and prejudice in European-language voice-overs, even when films have main characters of color.
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Jan 15, 2021
Whether working on his own projects or others like "Eyes on the Prize II" and "4 Little Girls," the multihyphenate artist has built a monumental career examining America.
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Jan 15, 2021
This Netflix film starring Anthony Mackie is neither curious nor bold in the ways it depicts a sentient robotic revolt.
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Jan 15, 2021
The actress-turned-director of "One Night in Miami" explains why she sees the fact-based drama about a meeting of four icons as a companion piece to "Watchmen."
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Jan 15, 2021
The director Patty Jenkins narrates a sequence from her movie, streaming on HBO Max.
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Jan 15, 2021
Patty Jenkins narrates a sequence from her film.
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Jan 15, 2021
Jayme Lawson is also getting Oscar buzz for "Farewell Amor."
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Jan 14, 2021
A family's dispossession to make way for a nature park is the subject of this Romanian documentary.
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Jan 14, 2021
Sam Pollard's fascinating documentary chronicles the F.B.I. director's obsession with the private life and political affiliations of the civil rights leader.
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Jan 14, 2021
His documentary series chronicled the lives of its subjects every seven years since 1964. Now the participants ponder whether it can carry on without him.
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Jan 14, 2021
Films like "Promising Young Woman" should be especially urgent in the wake of #MeToo. Instead, they sell female characters short.
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Jan 14, 2021
It's not every day you get to see Rainn Wilson at the bottom of a well, and that's just the half of it.
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Jan 14, 2021
Marches and parades are on pause this year. But streamed events and exhibitions are still commemorating King's achievements.
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Jan 14, 2021
A 1964 meeting of Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown is the subject of Regina King's riveting directorial debut.
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Jan 14, 2021
A 1964 meeting of Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown is the subject of Regina King's riveting directorial debut.
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Jan 14, 2021
In her new documentary, Lynne Sachs assesses her relationship with her father, Ira Sachs Sr., who fathered children with multiple women.
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Jan 14, 2021
Cannibals and comedy are mixed in this deranged ride from the director Alister Grierson.
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Jan 14, 2021
This documentary co-produced by The New York Times visits a retirement community the size of a small city.
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Jan 14, 2021
A cancer diagnosis only strengthens the bond between adult twins in this perceptive Swiss drama.
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Jan 14, 2021
Riffing on "Little Red Riding Hood," this sadistic chase movie sends a young woman and two attackers into the deep, dark woods.
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Jan 14, 2021
Liam Neeson plays the reluctant protector of an undocumented Mexican boy in this dusty drama.
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Jan 14, 2021
In Nate Parker's film, a father takes matters into his own hands to hold a police officer to account for shooting down his son.
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Jan 14, 2021
Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor play a couple sheltering in their London brownstone over the early weeks of the pandemic in this irritating heist comedy.
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Jan 13, 2021
Ousmane Sembène's "Mandabi," about a devout Muslim man who comes into some money, is a post-colonial satire that's still resonant today.
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Jan 13, 2021
Expect a category where a handful of titanic veterans and an influx of up-and-comers vie to be Boseman's runner-up.
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Jan 13, 2021
Expect a category where a handful of titanic veterans and an influx of up-and-comers vie to be Boseman's runner-up.
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Jan 13, 2021
The social media network has finally left the cinephile niche and entered the mainstream.
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Jan 13, 2021
The social media network has finally left the cinephile niche and entered the mainstream.
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Jan 13, 2021
Mr. Quiñones, also known as Shabba-Doo, rose to fame in the movie "Breakin'" and helped bring a distinctly urban kind of movement to the mainstream.
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Jan 13, 2021
Governments around the world have tried to support the arts during the pandemic, some more generously than others.
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Jan 12, 2021
Veteran documentarian Stanley Nelson crafts a somewhat cursory primer on the 1980s crack epidemic.
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Jan 12, 2021
"The Office," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Criminal Minds" each accounted for more viewing time than any other show or movie on streaming platforms last year, according to Nielsen.
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Jan 12, 2021
"The Office," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Criminal Minds" each accounted for more viewing time than any other show or movie on streaming platforms last year, according to Nielsen.
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Jan 12, 2021
With "Total Blackout: The Tamborine Extended Cut," the comic effectively erases the stamp of the original director, Bo Burnham, and turns in a less intimate show.
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Jan 12, 2021
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said that New York urgently needs to bring the arts back — not only to help jobless artists, but to make sure that New York City survives.
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Jan 12, 2021
The streaming service's movies feature Oscars winners and box office stars and are a reminder of its power in a Hollywood that has been irrevocably changed during the pandemic.
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Jan 12, 2021
The streaming service's movies feature Oscars winners and box office stars and are a reminder of its power in a Hollywood that has been irrevocably changed during the pandemic.
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Jan 12, 2021
This Yaniv Raz drama, about a Walt Whitman-obsessed teenager with a pigeon as an imaginary therapist, is drunk on its stylistic affectations.
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Jan 11, 2021
In a virtual ceremony, there were glitches and touching moments alike, including a speech from Chadwick Boseman's widow.
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Jan 11, 2021
A historical drama with Jesse Eisenberg airs on Showtime. And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a guest on Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS docu-series.
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Jan 09, 2021
This week, learn about the basics of perfume, listen to a string quartet or catch Regina King's directorial debut.
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Jan 09, 2021
The Wonder Woman sequel received mixed reviews. But there are plenty of excellent and entertaining alternatives to stream, and many that never received the attention they deserve.
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Jan 08, 2021
His output included "Coal Miner's Daughter" and a James Bond film. But he was best known for his long-running documentary series about life in Britain.
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Jan 08, 2021
Marvel's first series for Disney is part drama, part homage to vintage sitcoms, following the misfit heroes played by Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany to some weird places.
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Jan 07, 2021
Adapted by Tina Fey from her 2004 film, the musical played 834 performances. A national tour is expected to resume when theaters reopen.
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Jan 07, 2021
"The Rules of the Game," directed by Jean Renoir, may not seem revolutionary, but thanks to its balance of form and content, it's an enduring classic.
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Jan 07, 2021
The Netflix series, featuring Lebowitz and directed by Scorsese, offers acerbic commentary and a sense of yearning for a pre-pandemic metropolis.
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Jan 07, 2021
Whether as tribute or corrective, these movies have proliferated in recent years in part because the studio's trilogy has inspired strong reactions.
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Jan 07, 2021
Adapted from Naoki Higashida's book of the same title, this documentary, from Jerry Rothwell, shares portraits of five nonspeaking autistic people on four continents.
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Jan 07, 2021
Friends struggle to make sense of romance, purpose and family in this meandering drama.
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Jan 07, 2021
In her new documentary, Katrine Philp takes us into Good Grief, a facility that helps the very young deal with unspeakable loss.
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Jan 07, 2021
This beautifully shot film from Latvia displays too much good taste when depicting the horrors of World War I.
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Jan 07, 2021
Completed after almost four decades in limbo, this unerringly awful sequel places a killer bear in a park filled with clueless concertgoers.
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Jan 06, 2021
After the end-of-year bloodletting, the losses are a little lighter in January. But there are still some great gems worth catching.
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Jan 06, 2021
When you've acted, directed, written, produced, married, divorced, mothered and sold lipstick, what do you do next in America? Host a talk show, of course.
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Jan 06, 2021
This documentary looks at art collectors whose interests in Rembrandt have taken on faintly obsessive dimensions.
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Jan 06, 2021
When you've acted, directed, written, produced, married, divorced, mothered and sold lipstick, what do you do next in America? Host a talk show, of course.
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Jan 05, 2021
After finding stardom in the 1980s, she fell out of the spotlight until re-emerging in 1998 in the sitcom "That '70s Show."
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Jan 05, 2021
A miscommunication led to erroneous early reports about the 65-year-old actress, known for her roles in "A View to Kill" and "That '70s Show." She later died in a hospital.
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Jan 05, 2021
A young woman grows increasingly desperate to maintain the illusion of her illness in this restrained drama.
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Jan 04, 2021
Roberts is known for her roles opposite Roger Moore in the James Bond movie "A View to a Kill," and in the television shows "Charlie's Angels" and "That '70s Show."
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Jan 04, 2021
A 1976 TV movie that imagined years as people is a helpful reminder that a new page on the calendar is an arbitrary creation.
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Jan 01, 2021
She broke barriers for women, directing seven feature films, including "Hester Street" and "Between the Lines," as well as TV movies.
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Jan 01, 2021
The renowned actress stars as a woman fending off dementia while she searches for a lost friend.
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Jan 01, 2021
The director makes beautiful bummers in an industry that prefers happy endings. Perhaps that's why his movies seem like an endangered species.
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Dec 31, 2020
Every month, subscription streaming services add a new batch of titles to their libraries. Here are our picks for January.
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Dec 31, 2020
We talked to the Broadway stars behind a virtual performance of the animated film. Inspiration started with quirky TikTok segments circulating this fall.
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Dec 31, 2020
Nicolas Cage hosts the history of swearing. Lorde writes a book and Julie Mehretu takes over the Whitney. This new year has to be better, right?
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Dec 31, 2020
Cast with mostly unknown actors, the film follows a woman who strains to connect with her daughter after being released from prison.
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Dec 31, 2020
A World War II heroine defies death and more in this horror-action hybrid.
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Dec 31, 2020
In Alexandre Franchi's film, a 19-year-old crashes a support group and leads its members to personal breakthroughs.
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Dec 31, 2020
For her first lead in a film, the actress wanted a character as challenging as many of those she's played onstage. She found it in Kornel Mundruczo's "Pieces of a Woman."
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Dec 30, 2020
We streamed, we watched, we worried. We also wondered what the catastrophe called 2020 will mean for movies.
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Dec 30, 2020
Vanessa Kirby gives an intensely physical performance as a woman whose life and marriage is upended by the death of a child.
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Dec 30, 2020
Bullhorn in hand, he roamed the hallways, imposing discipline, expelling "miscreants" and restoring order. Morgan Freeman portrayed him in "Lean on Me."
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Dec 30, 2020
Two year-end shows from Amazon and Netflix deliver some laughs, yes, but also serve as veiled ads for the streaming services themselves.
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Dec 30, 2020
An assessment of the actor's late-career B-movie filmography, including his most recent entry, "Breach."
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Dec 30, 2020
Helena Zengel is a giggly, chatty 12-year-old, whose movie roles take her into psychological territory that even adults would find tough.
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Dec 29, 2020
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "Sylvie's Love" and "Soul" understand the music and its place in African-American life, a welcome break with Hollywood history.
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Dec 29, 2020
Ancient tradition fuses with modern struggles in a prison in Ivory Coast.
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Dec 29, 2020
She remained steadfast in her decades-long fight for justice, but her costumes ranged from a golden-eagle emblem and skirt to a W logo breastplate and leggings.
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Dec 29, 2020
After fleeing her abusive husband, a woman figures out how to build a new home for herself and her daughters.
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Dec 28, 2020
The co-hosts of Slate's long-running and influential podcast discuss the "urgency" of art in a crisis and whether Meryl Streep should play Anthony Fauci.
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Dec 28, 2020
The former pro football player has pushed himself in acting classes, onstage and in films. His latest drama, "Sylvie's Love," also meant returning to an early passion: music.
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Dec 28, 2020
This villain, played by Kristen Wiig in "Wonder Woman 1984," has had a long, complicated relationship with her rival.
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Dec 27, 2020
Walter Hamada, who runs DC Films, is overseeing a dizzying number of projects, part of a swarm of comics-based stories coming from Hollywood.
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Dec 26, 2020
With theaters and concert halls shuttered, unemployment in the arts has taken a deeper cut than it has in restaurants and other hard-hit industries.
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Dec 25, 2020
A look at the ways filmmakers and musicians collaborated to present an accurate view of players' artistry.
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Dec 25, 2020
Getting to play Cheetah was even better for the "Saturday Night Live" star, who loves superhero movies: "It was huge on my list of things I wanted to do."
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Dec 24, 2020
Bryan Fogel's examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies that can be premier platforms for documentary films.
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Dec 24, 2020
Bryan Fogel's new documentary about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi underlines the disregard for human rights when money and geopolitics are at play.
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Dec 24, 2020
The sequel to the 2017 hit finds Diana Prince, a.k.a. Wonder Woman, pining for love and saddled with a movie unworthy of her.
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Dec 24, 2020
Carey Mulligan stars in this feminist revenge thriller that too often backs away from its potentially searing setup.
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Dec 24, 2020
This inventive tale stars Jamie Foxx as a jazz musician caught in a world that human souls pass through on their way into and out of life.
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Dec 24, 2020
The star can't help but bring decency to Paul Greengrass's lean, efficient western set in 1870s Texas.
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Dec 24, 2020
With a bureaucrat as the central character, the film at times takes on a bleakly comic tone as it fills in the circumstances surrounding a massacre.
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Dec 24, 2020
After her immigrant grandfather dies, a woman wants to reclaim her ethnicity.
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Dec 24, 2020
The filmmaker Patrick Liu keeps the focus on the two young men in this Taiwanese drama and blurs the rest.
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