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David Wain’s Wet Hot American Comedy
There are two ways to describe what “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” is about. One is, What if someone actually tried to use…
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All the Films in Competition at Cannes 2026, Ranked from Best to Worst
12. “Coward” After winning awards and generating controversy at Cannes for “Girl” (2019) and “Close” (2023), two queer coming-of-age…
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What “The Sheep Detectives” Doesn’t Understand About Sheep
The formidable historian Carlo Ginzburg once published a paper called “Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method,” in which he argued that…
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“The Fast and the Furious” Tells the Story of Hollywood
In a new book, “Fast and Furious Franchising,” the media scholar Dan Hassler-Forest argues that the series is central to understanding the…
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“Blue Heron” Is an Exalted Drama of Troubled Childhood
The movie’s fluid observational construction conjures drama by compounding micro-incidents; its narrative emerges from the shaping of…
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New Directors, New Films
Also: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in “The Drama,” Michael Schulman on spring fabulosity, Rachel Syme on the latest in trenchcoats, and…
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Does “Wuthering Heights” Herald the Revival of the Film Romance?
“Wuthering Heights” extrapolates, too, of course. The many truncations and excisions have been detailed copiously, including by my…
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“Crime 101” Is an Enjoyably Moody Exercise in Michael Mann Lite
Those qualities bind him, in a spiritual sense, to Lou, who can’t suppress a quiet admiration for the criminal he’s pursuing, and also to…
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The Movie That Inspired Gregory Bovino to Join Border Patrol
For all the scenes of jeeps raising dust in the desert and migrants wading through the Rio Grande, “The Border” is something of a…
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The 2026 Oscar Nominations and What Should Have Been Picked
Wes Anderson (“The Phoenician Scheme”) Ryan Coogler (“Sinners”) Kleber Mendonça Filho (“The Secret Agent”) Josh Safdie (“Marty Supreme”)…
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Amanda Seyfried’s Epiphanies
The star of “The Testament of Ann Lee” and “The Housemaid” discusses letting go of judgment, working without hierarchies, and committing…
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In Two Films About Palestinian Struggle, Time Is of the Essence
Dabis’s diagrammatically structured screenplay is built on clear historical parallels and tidy intergenerational contrasts. A young boy…
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Actor Awards 2026 Nominations: SAG Face Intense Backlash for Excluding Foreign Language Films
Actor Awards 2026 nominees were revealed on Wednesday (January 7) by hosts Janelle James and Connor Storie through a worldwide live…
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” Explores the Mysteries of Family Life
This is what happens when “The Dead Don’t Die” dies. That scintillating Jim Jarmusch movie, from 2019, a mashup of comedy, science…
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The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films
A hundred and three years on, F. W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” still haunts the moviegoing unconscious. Newcomers feel…
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“Wake Up Dead Man”: A Murder Mystery with God in the Details
They’re a pretty wretched lot. There’s a local doctor, Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), who has slipped into alcoholic despair since his wife…
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What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies
The business outlook remained bleak, of course. Throughout the nineteen-sixties, amid vast social and generational changes, the studios,…
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Two New Movies Revivify the Portrait-Film Genre
Documentaries about individuals are ubiquitous, but “Suburban Fury” and “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” explore the…
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The Best Films of 2025
This year’s best movies feel plugged in, inextricably connected to forces bigger than the ordinary faces of local and private…
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Building a State of Fear in “Extremist”
On November 16, 2023, Sasha Skochilenko, a thirty-three-year-old artist, poet, and musician, stood in court to give what is known in the…
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“Train Dreams” Is Too Tidy to Go Off the Rails
In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly cut off…
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Diane Keaton’s Shadows and Light
In Vanity Fair in 1987, Keaton told Joan Juliet Buck, “I was always pretty religious as a kid, but I had trouble with Jesus early on…