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‘Widows’ Is a Thriller About Women’s Liberation
Viola Davis and Cynthia Erivo in Widows. (Photo: 20th Century Fox) In 1996, amid a film landscape where lurid movies…
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“Amazing Grace” Gives Us Aretha Franklin at the Spellbinding Height of Her Powers
One of my favorite moments in all of music is from the album “Songs of Faith,” which Aretha Franklin recorded…
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“Vox Lux,” Reviewed: A Tale of Star Power That Misuses Natalie Portman’s Star Power
With its extremes of experience and banal slightness of content, Brady Corbet’s rock-world melodrama “Vox Lux,” portentously labelled “A Twenty-First…
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A Letter to My Talent Agency
Dear International Creative Management Partners, I am writing to respectfully tattle on staff members who have shown, time and again,…
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The Best Movies of 2018
The word “resistance” has been central to political, intellectual, and, for that matter, moral life in the past two years,…
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‘The Wizard of Oz’ Is the Most Influential Movie of All Time
A lobby card from The Wizard Of Oz (1939) shows an illustration of American actress Judy Garland as Dorothy, Frank…
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I Accidentally Walked Into “Border,” and It Kind of Changed My Life
That’s odd, I thought, during the early going of Ali Abbasi’s new film, “Border.” I wonder why it’s in Swedish.…
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Nicolas Roeg, 90, British film director
Chris Jackson/Getty Images/File Mr. Roeg in 2008. LONDON — Nicolas Roeg, a director of provocative and otherworldly films who gave…
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More Evidence Linking ’13 Reasons Why’ With Teen Suicide Attempts
13 Reasons Why. (Photo: Netflix) Since the show’s debut in 2017, mental-health experts have expressed alarm about the Netflix series…
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Skip the theater and watch free movies at home this holiday season. Here’s how
Movie theater popcorn is great but watching at home for free is even better. If you are a lover of…
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