![]() | Charles Melton, ?May December? Breakout Star, Is Transformed |
The ex-?Riverdale? star transformed himself for Todd Haynes?s new drama. As an actor, he?s caught between wanting to be seen and wanting to disappear. | |
![]() | Beyoncé?s ?Renaissance? Film: 4 Takeaways From the Premiere |
The star skipped the red carpet and slipped into the celebrity-filled screening on Saturday night. But the movie pulls back the curtain ? a little. | |
![]() | ?Fallen Leaves? Is the Rare Rom-Com That Makes Sense in Dark Times |
Aki Kaurismaki?s ?Fallen Leaves? is both magical and despairing, born of what the Finnish auteur?s stars say is an unusual shooting approach. | |
![]() | What It?s Like to Work With Hayao Miyazaki |
The anime master is a creature of habit who talks every day with his longtime producer, and keeps it more hands off with his regular composer. | |
![]() | ?Rust? Killing Forces Hollywood to Make Choices on Guns |
Real guns or replicas? Blank fire or special effects? The killing of a cinematographer on a film set has some in the industry rethinking their approach to firearms. | |
![]() | Disney Rejected Her a Few Times. The ?Wish? Director Just Kept Trying. |
After she was finally hired by the studio, Fawn Veerasunthorn worked her way up the ranks, and has applied that lesson of perseverance to her new film. | |
![]() | France Scoffs at an Englishman?s ?Napoleon? |
French critics considered Ridley Scott?s new biopic lazy, pointless, boring, migraine-inducing, too short and historically inaccurate. And that?s just to start. | |
![]() | ?Terms of Endearment? at 40 and How It Helped One Writer |
A writer remembers bonding with her mother over the film?s unusual mix of sorrow and laughter, a blend that helped immeasurably through painful loss. | |
![]() | ?Maestro? Review: Leonard Bernstein?s Life of Ecstasy and Agony |
As director and star, Bradley Cooper delivers an intimate portrait of the composer and his many private and public selves. | |
![]() | Rob Reiner Teases Details of ?Spinal Tap? Sequel |
Speaking on a podcast this week, the director said Paul McCartney and Elton John will appear in the film, among other real musical stars. | |
![]() | ?Past Lives? and Lily Gladstone Win Big at the Gotham Awards |
The movie prize season kicks off with honors for the A24 drama and for the star of ?The Unknown Country? (who?s better known for ?Killers of the Flower Moon?). | |
![]() | Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now |
A rom-com in space, a coming-of-age quest and a high-tech birthing plan are among the films worth checking out this month. | |
![]() | Suzanne Shepherd, Actress Known for Playing Mothers, Dies at 89 |
After establishing herself as a teacher, she started a prolific screen acting career in her 50s that included roles in ?Goodfellas? and ?The Sopranos.? | |
![]() | ?Smoke Sauna Sisterhood? Review: Women, Uninterrupted |
In Anna Hints?s bewitching documentary, Estonian smoke saunas beget a sweaty purification process ? one that?s revealed to be more than skin deep. | |
![]() | ?Against the Tide? Review: Tales of the Sea |
Sarvnik Kaur?s breathtaking documentary about Indigenous fishermen in Mumbai brings to life an ecosystem wrecked by corporate greed and climate change. | |
![]() | ?Frybread Face and Me? Review: Reservation Summer |
An 11-year-old boy from San Diego goes to live with his Navajo grandmother and spends time with his cousin. | |
![]() | Joss Ackland, Busy, Versatile Actor on Stage and Screen, Dies at 95 |
He was a villain in ?Lethal Weapon 2,? C.S. Lewis on TV in ?Shadowlands? and Falstaff onstage in ?Henry IV? ? and had a cameo in a Pet Shop Boys video. | |
![]() | ?Napoleon? Review: A Lumpy, Grumpy Little Man |
Joaquin Phoenix is oddly mesmerizing as the French emperor in Ridley Scott?s historical epic charting his rise and ruin. | |
![]() | ?Menus-Plaisirs ? Les Troisgros? Review: A Beautiful Collaboration |
For his 44th documentary, Frederick Wiseman journeys to the French countryside to examine the workings of a family-owned, Michelin-starred restaurant. | |
![]() | Napoleon Didn?t Really Shoot Cannons at Egypt?s Pyramids |
But scholars say that a trailer for Ridley Scott?s new film draws attention to the French emperor?s complex and lasting legacy on the study of Egypt?s cultural heritage. | |
![]() | ?Monster? Review: Uncovering a Mother-Son Japanese Mystery |
This drama from Hirokazu Kore-eda traces a series of events from the perspectives of a single mother, her preteen son and his fifth-grade teacher. | |
![]() | ?Cypher? Review: Tierra Whack in a Twisty Music Documentary |
A biographical look at the Philadelphia rapper Tierra Whack takes a hard left turn. | |
![]() | Watch a Thanksgiving Day Tirade in ?Maestro? |
The director Bradley Cooper discusses a one-shot scene involving an argument between conductor Leonard Bernstein (played by Cooper) and his wife (Carey Mulligan). | |
![]() | ?Maestro? | Anatomy of a Scene |
The director Bradley Cooper narrates a sequence from the film in which he stars alongside Carey Mulligan. | |
![]() | Hallmark Christmas Movies Are Falling for Europe |
More and more of the cozy Christmas movies on Hallmark and Lifetime are set on the continent. But onscreen, it?s a Europe doused in holiday magic. | |
![]() | ?Buena Vista Social Club,? Gets Another Life as a Musical |
The best-selling album turned veteran Cuban musicians into global stars and inspired a documentary almost 30 years ago. Now it?s an Off Broadway musical. | |
![]() | ?Leo? Review: Adam Sandler as a Gruff Lizard, Dishing Advice |
Adam Sandler plays a gruff old lizard who dishes out advice to fifth graders in this animated comedy. | |
![]() | ?Wish,? With Ariana DeBose and Chris Pine: Disney on Ice |
Celebrating Disney?s 100th anniversary, the animated musical starring Ariana DeBose and Chris Pine, is a reminder of the studio?s vaunted past. | |
![]() | ?Genie? Review: Melissa McCarthy, Granting Unlimited Wishes |
Melissa McCarthy grants unlimited magical requests in this holiday fantasy film. | |
![]() | ?The Boy and the Heron? Review: Hayao Miyazaki Has a Question for You |
The anime filmmaker returns at 82 with the enigmatic tale of a boy growing up amid war and fear, much as the director did. | |
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