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Inconvenient history, long buried, finally gets the spotlight in Netflix’s Descendant.
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson re-team for Martin McDonagh’s riotous fable that’s about more than a friend breakup.
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John Carpenter’s 1978 movie spawned a cat-and-mouse battle between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode that’s lasted four decades.
Fall has arrived. Here’s everything to know about the year’s upcoming releases.
Cate Blanchett stars in a tightly wound masterpiece that slices through class anxiety and power.
Ruben Ostlund doesn’t think we’re hypocrites.
On the Endgamification of everything.
Bros wants to be a gay love story that doesn’t play it straight.
Marilyn Monroe was an artist. Her magnum opus was her own image.
Don’t Worry Darling and Barbarian want us to remember gender is scary.
How the director of an astonishing new documentary used old government footage to shed light on the present.
From The Fabelmans to Bardo to Armageddon Time, the filmmakers are making their memoirs.
The Whale is more than the movie where Brendan Fraser wears a fat suit.
Lord of the Rings and The Little Mermaid are just the latest targets of racist fans.
The plot is based on a horrifying true story from 2011, but the resistance philosophy goes back to St. Augustine.
The musician’s (probable) quest for a short-film Academy Award, explained.
See a movie for the price of a coffee on National Cinema Day and contemplate the future of theaters.
Three Thousand Years of Longing caps an off-the-rails summer — one that might be the future.
The MCU’s version of a legal procedural can be fun as hell.
Purple Hearts tries to romanticize the ideological middle. It actually glorifies something much uglier.
Three new movies recall the 1930s gangster movie era, but with a twist.
From Nope to The Worst Person in the World, the intertitle is back — but with a twist.
A Hollywood hairstylist on why onscreen wigs don’t look anything like they should.
This researcher interviewed dozens of writers, creators, and showrunners about onscreen abortion. Here’s what she learned.
Brad Pitt and a bunch of cameos still carry the movie.
Loneliness, longing, and love in the third pandemic summer.
How Tom Cruise went from superstar to laughingstock and back again.
How Thirteen Lives avoids the problems of other movies that are ripped from recent headlines.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got married, so I revisited their infamous 2003 flop.
Unpacking the spectacle at the heart of the movie’s mysteries.
Netflix answers some questions. There are plenty left.
The Tollywood blockbuster is a hit on Netflix, but its casteist politics aren’t so simple.
The new adaptation of the Jane Austen classic, starring Dakota Johnson, swings wildly from dour to dull.
Director Sara Dosa explains why it’s a love triangle and a guide to life, all in one.
The new Election sequel shows how far we’ve come in handling ambitious women — and how far we have to go.
Marvel’s Phase 4 has given us great villains, like Christian Bale’s Gorr, but they rarely stick around.
A classic Thor adversary from the comic books will join the fray.
Big Hollywood movies are being made with Chinese audiences in mind.
From great blockbusters to a mockumentary about a talking inch-high shell.