What Do Lars Ulrich and A.O. Scott Have in Common? A Lot, It Turns Out
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Read More[ad_1] A.O. Scott, our critic at large, is keeping a diary as he “attends” the virtual Sundance Film Festival, which
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Read More[ad_1] “It’s simple,” she said. “I try always to be true to myself. I learned from my mom: ‘Don’t lie
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Read More[ad_1] “Fatman,” the recently released action-comedy featuring Mel Gibson as Santa Claus, plays out in the rural backwoods of Alaska.
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Read More[ad_1] The last time Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn headlined a movie together, the Berlin Wall was intact and the
Read More[ad_1] Here is a highly select list of films, series and specials due this season on the major subscription streaming
Read More[ad_1] Combining documentary, fiction and elaborate soundscapes into a uniquely experimental whole, the Spanish filmmaker Carlos Casas opens his latest
Read More[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — For decades, Debbie Reynolds begged Hollywood to help her preserve and exhibit her vast collection of
Read More[ad_1] While your travel plans may be on hold, you can pretend you’re somewhere new for the night. Around the
Read More[ad_1] Caroline Chou, 19, pins a green screen to the goldenrod walls of her childhood bedroom in San José, Calif.
Read More[ad_1] When “The Witches,” starring Anne Hathaway as the Grand High Witch, was released last month, a collective groan went
Read More[ad_1] Sacha Baron Cohen may be the star of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” but it is Maria Bakalova who has emerged
Read More[ad_1] “Transhood” is fixated on transition, and therefore preoccupied with time, or at least that seems to be its intention.
Read More[ad_1] While working on an assignment involving facial-recognition software, the M.I.T. Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini found that the algorithm
Read More[ad_1] “Ammonite” is only the director Francis Lee’s second feature, yet already he’s developing a strong visual signature, at once
Read More[ad_1] Having settled into his horror-comedy groove with the “Happy Death Day” movies, the director Christopher Landon repeats his blood-and-badinage
Read More[ad_1] Hoping to deliver a Yuletide story for our dark, divided times, the directors and brothers Ian Nelms & Eshom
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Read More[ad_1] Sophia Loren is one of those movie greats who doesn’t often find her way into a great movie. News
Read More[ad_1] Is aging gracefully a conscious concern for you? If you accept the aging process and live in the present,
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Read More[ad_1] In September 2019 at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, Greta Thunberg made headlines by condemning world leaders for
Read More[ad_1] “Hey, this is David E. Talbert, the writer and director of Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey.” “You might want
Read More[ad_1] Decades earlier, in 1993, the weekly newspaper The Boston Phoenix reported that women at Gloucester Stage Company had accused
Read More[ad_1] Disney will hold a virtual investor day on Dec. 10 to further detail its direct-to-consumer plans. Some investors hope
Read More[ad_1] Like a magic brew thinned into bouillon, “Come Away” folds spellbinding storybook tales into a mundane melodrama. The movie
Read More[ad_1] “The Climb” is a movie about a friendship that stands the test of time through some pretty gnarly events.
Read More[ad_1] Once the terms “animated movie” and “animated cartoon” were virtually synonymous. But since computer animation and other advances drained
Read More[ad_1] An intimate travelogue, “Monsoon” follows Kit (Henry Golding), a software animator raised in London, as he returns to Vietnam,
Read More[ad_1] This picture, “Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds,” is the third Werner Herzog movie to come out in 2020. Yes,
Read More[ad_1] A titanic figure, the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira (1908-2015) got his start in the era of silent cinema
Read More[ad_1] Dr. Libby Torchia’s pandemic breaking point came one morning in May, when she and her boss got into an
Read More[ad_1] It took Steve McQueen a long time to make a film about Black life in Britain. “I needed to
Read More[ad_1] Most nights, from the witching hours of 2 a.m. to 4 a.m., Steve Martin finds himself awake, his thoughts
Read More[ad_1] Through the magic of montage, the city symphonist Manfred Kirchheimer (“Stations of the Elevated”) brings fresh life to sights
Read More[ad_1] A high point of the mostly meh 2013 Superman movie “Man of Steel” was the presence of Kevin Costner
Read More[ad_1] “Do you smell him?,” a little girl whispers in Bryan Bertino’s ingenious chiller “The Dark and the Wicked,” and
Read More[ad_1] Approaching space travel with eyes and spirit firmly tethered to the ground, Alice Winocour’s “Proxima” takes a sadly unadventurous
Read More[ad_1] Set in rural Spain during Gen. Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, “The Endless Trench” tells the story of a man who
Read More[ad_1] Everything in “Operation Christmas Drop” falls predictably into place like children nestled all snug in their beds. Each plot
Read More[ad_1] Like many women, I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to move through the world. How
Read More[ad_1] So little is predictable these days — an achingly close election, a pandemic with an ever more obscure endpoint
Read More[ad_1] The “Fantastic Beasts” movies will have to find a new Gellert Grindelwald. “I wish to let you know that
Read More[ad_1] Early in this movie, when Ben (Edward Holcroft), tells his mom, Margaret (Fiona Shaw), that he and his girlfriend
Read More[ad_1] Surviving 2020 has meant living, simultaneously, in two incompatible timelines. There is, on one hand, the relentlessness of the
Read More[ad_1] Gateway Movies offers ways to begin exploring directors, genres and topics in film by examining a few streaming movies.
Read More[ad_1] Elsa Raven, a character actress perhaps best remembered for a small but crucial role in the hit 1985 time-travel
Read More[ad_1] It’s reasonable that an audience sitting through “The French Connection” would have been pre-exhilarated by “Sweetback” and by “Shaft,”
Read More[ad_1] Made in 1988 but virtually unknown in the United States, “Damnation” is the movie with which the great Hungarian
Read More[ad_1] Fans of Brad Pitt and Jake Gyllenhaal will be disappointed to learn that Netflix is losing not one, but
Read More[ad_1] Will it feel new a few years from now? After all, one moment’s zeitgeist is another’s old hat, even
Read More[ad_1] “Cabaret” and “Cats” are pretty much acknowledged as the zenith and nadir of movie musical adaptations. But “Cabaret” is
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Read More[ad_1] The Babadook goes paperless in “Come Play,” a thriller in which a spindly creature from another realm torments a
Read More[ad_1] In 1975, Ted Ngoy fled the war in Cambodia with his wife and three kids and arrived in America
Read More[ad_1] On Sunday, a show with the blandest title on television (“How To With John Wilson”) dedicated an episode to
Read More[ad_1] Sean Connery, the actor who originated the role of James Bond, had dementia in the last few months of
Read More[ad_1] Claudia Rankine is the prophet of Trump’s America. It’s a thankless job, and one that, to some extent, all
Read More[ad_1] There’s not too much story in “Fire Will Come,” but once the title promise comes to fruition, the viewer
Read More[ad_1] Eddie Hassell, an actor best known for a recurring role on the NBC show “Surface” and the movie “The
Read More[ad_1] The judge agreed with most of that characterization, repeatedly highlighting Mr. Depp’s jealously and saying that his drug use
Read More[ad_1] The judge agreed with most of that characterization, repeatedly highlighting Mr. Depp’s jealously and saying that his drug use
Read More[ad_1] From the mid-60s to the end of the ’70s, the Hong Kong director King Hu (who died in 1997)
Read More[ad_1] If you have children, then Halloween will see a lot more trick than treat this year. Here in New
Read More[ad_1] Connery didn’t want to continue to strike like thunder or, for that matter, lightning. Also, he wasn’t crazy about
Read More[ad_1] Sean Connery was remembered on Saturday by other James Bond actors and franchise producers as “one of the true
Read More[ad_1] Paul (Jaeden Martell), the titular 13-year-old of “The True Adventures of Wolfboy,” has a condition that causes his body
Read More[ad_1] Vampires, demons, Michael Myers — in horror, many things never die. One Cleveland television station is betting there’s something
Read More[ad_1] Sean Connery died Saturday at the age of 90. Best known for originating the role of James Bond in
Read More[ad_1] Bodybuilding led indirectly to acting. In 1953, he and a friend went to London to compete in the Mr.
Read More[ad_1] Growing up, Zoe Lister-Jones, the actress and filmmaker, was not into frights. Not a horror person. “I never did
Read More[ad_1] “Citizen Kane” has cast a vast cinematic shadow for nearly eight decades, sitting atop countless lists of the greatest
Read More[ad_1] Crime fiction has long been fascinated by the fuzzy line between crooked cops and the criminals they are meant
Read More[ad_1] Ashley Peldon gets paid to scream. While this may be a vocation that many people would jump at right
Read More[ad_1] On a rainy day last week, 72 moviegoers visited the Park Plaza Cinema in Hilton Head Island, S.C., to
Read More[ad_1] David Guillod, a former Hollywood executive who was out on bail after being charged with sexually assaulting four women,
Read More[ad_1] The long-awaited follow-up to the 1996 cult classic “The Craft” recalls its iconic predecessor in many ways. Just like
Read More[ad_1] How does one find love over the holidays? It’s easier, perhaps, to lock down a trusty holidate: someone who
Read More[ad_1] For more than a half-century, Frederick Wiseman has been telling the story of the United States, one documentary and
Read More[ad_1] Netflix has done a fine job in recent years of stockpiling horror films — from established classics to newer
Read More[ad_1] Several of the city’s other art houses and smaller cinemas have a surprising safety net — large corporate owners
Read More[ad_1] With his first feature, the director and co-writer Tyler Taormina delivers something at first familiar and then increasingly —
Read More[ad_1] At the start of “Midnight in Paris,” a documentary shot in Flint, Mich., in 2012, before the water crisis,
Read More[ad_1] A murderous weave is the main attraction of the horror comedy “Bad Hair,” but a few catchy tunes play
Read More[ad_1] I loathe the idea of a topical movie. The process of filmmaking doesn’t even really allow for it. A
Read More[ad_1] There’s brainy sci-fi, and then there’s very brainy sci-fi. It’s rare that very brainy sci-fi packs a genuinely emotional,
Read More[ad_1] Throughout his career, the Hong Kong-born director Wayne Wang has applied a purposefully eclectic approach to environments and subject
Read More[ad_1] A family project, “The Place of No Words” clearly means so much to the tight circle of people who
Read More[ad_1] “Friendsgiving,” the new comedy written and directed by Nicol Paone, takes a surprisingly charming and hilarious approach to a
Read More[ad_1] In the 1920s, when radium was advertised as a luminous substance with health benefits, two teenage sisters make ends
Read More[ad_1] The Afropunk festival has been steadily scaling up for years, growing over a decade and a half from a
Read More[ad_1] There’s no eye of newt or toe of frog in “Roald Dahl’s The Witches,” Robert Zemeckis’s take on the
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Read More[ad_1] With “Bad Hair,” the writer and director Justin Simien, best known for the TV series and movie “Dear White
Read More[ad_1] This article contains spoilers for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Fourteen years after the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen brought his character
Read More[ad_1] What differentiates Sacha Baron Cohen, a master of the “Gotcha,” from your run-of-the-mill prankster is his knack for catching
Read More[ad_1] With Halloween on the horizon (a compromised version of it, to be sure), this month’s streaming recommendations have a
Read More[ad_1] Note the last two words in the title of Heidi Schreck’s hit show, “What the Constitution Means to Me”:
Read More[ad_1] Gateway Movies offers ways to begin exploring directors, genres and topics in film by examining a few streaming movies.
Read More[ad_1] When “Now and Then” was released in 1995, it had the makings of a hit: an A-list cast, a
Read More[ad_1] Surfacing These cinematic mainstays continue to terrify. When “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” came out in 1974, it was
Read More[ad_1] It’s not surprising that a staggering number of traditional Halloween festivities have been canceled or curtailed this year. Trick-or-treating?
Read More[ad_1] The New Orleans bounce music queen Big Freedia is armed with empathy. She doesn’t just talk lucidly about how
Read More[ad_1] Tony Todd, the veteran horror star, has found himself in an unusual state: He’s scared. But not of what
Read More[ad_1] In the 2006 movie “Borat,” an American humor coach explains the concept of a “not” joke to Borat Sagdiyev,
Read More[ad_1] President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, has become caught up in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new “Borat” satire, shown
Read More[ad_1] Jeff Bridges, the actor known for his roles as Bad Blake in “Crazy Heart” and The Dude in “The
Read More[ad_1] TOKYO — In the United States, movies are being shown to seas of empty seats, if theaters are opening
Read More[ad_1] Jean-Claude Van Damme has cracked the skulls and bones of bad guys, escaped from prison to find his dying
Read More[ad_1] Who thought this was a good idea? I mean, look: I’m not against something on Netflix that features Armie
Read More[ad_1] Alex (Cooper Raiff) is a sensitive freshman having trouble adjusting to college life. His Zac Efron-esque looks belie his
Read More[ad_1] In “Love and Monsters,” an imaginative post-apocalyptic coming-of-age film from the South African director Michael Matthews (“Five Fingers for
Read More[ad_1] The latest Liam Neeson vehicle, “Honest Thief,” might be classified as a thriller, but its thrills are predictable in
Read More[ad_1] Though it’s never stated outright, some digging makes clear that Edward James Olmos’s earnest antipollution drama, “The Devil Has
Read More[ad_1] When Kelli Dillon was 24 years old, a doctor at the California facility where she was incarcerated sterilized her
Read More[ad_1] A broad outline of this Italian film, directed by Ferzan Ozpetek, makes it sound like an old-school domestic melodrama.
Read More[ad_1] When Mary Laws set out to create “Monsterland,” her new socially conscious horror anthology series on Hulu, she drew
Read More[ad_1] Abbie Hoffman described the trial of the Chicago 7 as “a great show,” and for the past 50 years,
Read More[ad_1] One day after killing his pregnant wife and two daughters, Christopher Watts gave a TV interview from his porch
Read More[ad_1] I’m Aaron Sorkin, and I’m the writer and the director of “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” “It’s Abbie.”
Read More[ad_1] Jeff Daniels agreed to play James Comey in Showtime’s “The Comey Rule” on the promise that the four-hour mini-series
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Read More[ad_1] An Atlanta man was arrested on Friday morning in the fatal shooting of the actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd, the
Read More[ad_1] Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne) and Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp) were in charge of the National Mobilization Committee’s Chicago office,
Read More[ad_1] Rhonda Fleming, the red-haired actress and sex symbol in Hollywood westerns, film noir and adventure movies of the 1940s
Read More[ad_1] He refused for many years to give interviews as himself. He would occasionally speak as his characters. He tended
Read More[ad_1] I’m Aaron Sorkin, and I’m the writer and the director of “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” “It’s Abbie.”
Read More[ad_1] Anyone who has been paying attention to the news recently might conclude that Karl Marx was wrong. History doesn’t
Read More[ad_1] The first thing you should do when you’re ready to watch “David Byrne’s American Utopia” — and you should
Read More[ad_1] A packed theater. A booming band. Dancers pounding across the stage in unison. And in the middle of it
Read More[ad_1] It sounds brutal and, as McConaughey told me, “This is the reality, but there’s humanity in that reality.” Jim
Read More[ad_1] Four young superstars shine brightly in “Blackpink: Light Up the Sky,” a brief but endearing introduction to the idolized
Read More[ad_1] 4. Nothing will look the same. Oscar season is usually a wild and woolly adventure made up of riotous
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