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Matte paintings have transformed movies for over 100 years. AI could be the next step in making them.
What we’re really fighting about when we fight about Barbie.
The Argylle authorship controversy, explained.
The patriarchy is riding high for the 2024 Oscars — but not Charles Melton or the boys of Saltburn.
The Color Purple and Mean Girls make the trip from the silver screen to the stage and back.
The pay gap for Black women continues to persist.
Leon Uris’s bestselling epic Exodus — and its hit movie adaptation starring Paul Newman — influenced generations of Americans, from the suburbs to the State Department.
The Color Purple is a melodrama — and the new movie musical keeps its traditions alive.
Director Michael Mann loves fast cars, experts at work, and authentic filmmaking, and it shows.
It’s a great time to be at the movies.
In Poor Things, Oppenheimer, Passages, and more, sex on screen drove the plot.
Stone reunites with The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos for a lovable movie from one of our prickliest filmmakers.
Jeffrey Wright gives a career-crowning performance in this wry and surprisingly warm-hearted race satire.
The case against pets, what Oppenheimer got wrong, and the magic of meditation.
What Oppenheimer, Napoleon, Maestro, and Ferrari have to say about the men at their centers.
Is there a future for Jason Momoa’s Aquaman?
Bradley Cooper’s turn as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro is just the latest role to stoke conversations about what Jewish representation means in Hollywood.
Poweeney deserves a better rom-com.
Corporate feminism will not save us.
It’s the most ... romantic time of the year?
Jonathan Glazer’s new film dismantles simple cliches about the banality of evil.
A director, a worldview, a vibe, and a love of cute hats.
Tim Burton’s superhero classic is Christmas rom-com you don’t realize is a Christmas movie or a rom-com.
There’s an elegiac sense of magic to Studio Ghibli’s latest film.
The Bonaparte marriage, not quite explained by Ridley Scott’s new movie.
3 Palestinian short films available on Netflix show life under occupation.
Melissa Barrera was fired from Scream 7 over her support of Palestine. Then Jenna Ortega left too.
Scorsese’s latest film looks to the past, but misses the larger picture.
The Netflix film adaptation, based on the bestselling novel, savagely skewers yuppie vacationers.
The Hunger Games prequel finds a new wrinkle in a story we thought we knew.
Patrick Dempsey and TikToker Addison Rae star in an overbaked entry into the holiday horror genre.
Beneath a layer of slapstick, The Marvels is a warning about hero worship.
Solitude and wisdom at the movies.
SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement.
From Pain Hustlers to Dopesick to The Fall of the House of Usher, filmmakers are fascinated by the epidemic. But what are they saying?
For Indigenous people, there are few simple feelings about Scorsese’s take on the Reign of Terror.
The Warren’s case files have helped create a shockingly successful horror universe.
The onscreen version of exorcists Ed and Lorraine Warren is a far cry from their real-life counterparts.
Entertainment isn’t frivolous. Walter Hickey’s new book You Are What You Watch explains why.