What Directors Love About Nicole Kidman
As the actress receives a life achievement award from the American Film Institute this week, five filmmakers discuss what makes her work so singular.
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CreditParamount Pictures Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell on How ‘Anyone but You’ Beat the Rom-Com Odds
Here are their takeaways after the film, debuting on Netflix, went from box office miss to runaway hit.
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CreditSony Pictures The ‘Amityville’ Horrors Keep Coming
The famed “Amityville Horror” film has spawned at least 45 sequels. A look at why the Amityville name has endured in the horror genre.
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Ken Loach: Championing the Strugglers and Stragglers
A retrospective of the director’s work at Film Forum shows how his movies have kept a focus on working-class solidarity.
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Do You Know These Films Based on Great Biographies?
Try this short quiz to test your knowledge of books and their memorable movie adaptations.
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CreditBen Hickey ‘Abigail’ Review: Horror by Numbers
In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will there be gore? You bet.
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This month’s picks include competing assassins, a mysterious hitchhiker, a stoic bricklayer and more.
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CreditWell Go USA Entertainment The TV Show That Predicted America’s Lonely, Disorienting Digital Future
For 12 years, the MTV reality series “Catfish” has traveled the U.S., presenting hundreds of intimate snapshots of what can go wrong when the heart mixes with technology.
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In “Little Empty Boxes” and other films, the heartbreak of memory loss is intertwined with deeper cultural implications.
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Critic’s Pick‘Mary Jane’ Review: When Parenting Means Intensive Care
Amy Herzog’s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.
By Jesse Green
Lourdes Portillo, Oscar-Nominated Documentary Filmmaker, Dies at 80
Her films centered on Latin American experiences and received wide acclaim.
By Orlando Mayorquín
‘Cabaret’ Review: What Good Is Screaming Alone in Your Room?
Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a buzzy Broadway revival that rips the skin off the 1966 musical.
By Jesse Green
My TenAlfred Molina on the Museum He Never Misses When He’s in New York
“Every time I’m in the city, I make a visit,” said the actor, who is performing on Broadway in “Uncle Vanya.”
By Sarah Bahr
8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about even if you’re not planning to see them.
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‘Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver’ Review: Of Stars and Wars
A delirious, pulpy mishmash of knockoffs, Zack Snyder’s film isn’t good, but it sure is something.
By Amy Nicholson
‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: War, Undemanding
Guy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing.
By Alissa Wilkinson
‘Stress Positions’ Review: It’s Giving Pandemonium
The writer-director Theda Hammel’s biting, delirious quarantine comedy skewers white gay men in a world where fact, fiction and authentic experiences collide.
By Lisa Kennedy
‘Blood for Dust’ Review: Dire Straits
This drug-run thriller, starring Scoot McNairy, traffics in grim ponderousness.
By Ben Kenigsberg
‘We Grown Now’ Review: A Child’s Eye View
Minhal Baig’s third feature follows two boys living in a public housing complex in Chicago as they cope by building their own dream worlds.
By Manohla Dargis
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