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“Warfare” Offers a Hyperrealist Rebuke of the American War Movie
“Warfare” ends the way a lot of movies based on true events do: with a series of side-by-side photographs. Here are the characters you’ve…
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The Dreamlike Journeys of “Việt and Nam” and “Grand Tour”
Every good film is, to some degree, a transporting experience—a dissolution of boundaries between here and there, then and now. See enough…
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U.S. revokes visas of Mexican band members accused of 'glorifying' drug kingpin
MEXICO CITY — The U.S. State Department has revoked the visas of musicians in a popular Mexican band after the group flashed big-screen…
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Introducing a New Genre: The Post-Covid Movie
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The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki
If asked to come up with a quintessentially “human” work of art, one could do worse than to name a film by Studio Ghibli. The Japanese…
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Amazon’s New Movie Strategy Starts With Theaters
Amazon’s movie strategy is finally ready for its close-up. After a decade-long dalliance with big-screen theatrical releases, the giant…
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Richard Brody’s New Directors/New Films Picks
Beguiling blends of fiction and nonfiction are the highlights of this year’s edition of the New Directors/New Films series, at Film at…
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A Visit to the National Gallery, a High Point in the Swamp
It’s back to the ’70s in a first-rate photo show; plus, an overstuffed, overwrought Elizabeth Catlett show. But the place, as always,…
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'No Other Land' co-director Hamdan Ballal, bloodied and bruised, released from Israeli custody
Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian filmmakers who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” is free. He was…
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Netflix’s Reed Hastings Gives $50 Million to Bowdoin for A.I. Program
The Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings wants more researchers and students to ask deep questions about artificial intelligence and its…
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<i>Snow White</i> Is a Box Office Dwarf
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Netflix’s ‘Electric State’ Is No Hit, but the Streamer Doesn’t Mind
Netflix spent over $275 million to make “The Electric State,” a sci-fi action adventure film starring Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt and…
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Apple losing over US$1 billion a year on streaming service, the Information reports
The tech giant has spent more than US$5 billion a year on content since launching Apple TV+ in 2019 but trimmed it by around US$500…
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“Being Maria” Brings Maria Schneider’s Traumatic Career to Light
When Film Forum showed “Last Tango in Paris” this past December, as part of a Marlon Brando retrospective, the venue’s web page for the…
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“Purpose” on Broadway and “Vanya” Downtown
Last season, the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had a Broadway hit at Second Stage’s Hayes Theatre with his Tony Award-winning…
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“Perfection” Is the Perfect Novel for an Age of Aimless Aspiration
In the fall of 1965, a twenty-nine-year-old Georges Perec published his début novel. Short and strange, “Things: A Story of the Sixties”…
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The Strange Experimental-Theatre Experience Giving New Meaning to “Show, Don’t Tell”
Somewhere in London’s theatre district—I can’t say where—there’s a nondescript office building with a neon sign in the lobby that reads,…
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Uneven Revivals of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Ghosts”
In early 1947, the playwright Tennessee Williams wrote to the producer Irene Selznick because Elia Kazan, who had been tapped to direct…
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The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies
A warrior is in a prison cell. His guard approaches and shows him the wooden sword that he will receive once he has earned his freedom.…
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Brian Laundrie's sister issues statement disputing after Netflix docuseries
Brian Laundrie's sister alleged that some information in the new Gabby Petito Netflix docuseries is inaccurate. The Context Petito was…
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Chris Pratt's NSFW reaction to Patrick Schwarzenegger's nude scene
Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Chris Pratt is a fan of White Lotus, and he recently admitted that…
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Popular conservative podcaster Dan Bongino named FBI deputy director
Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, was named as the FBI's next deputy director. Source link
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Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Sparkles
New, platinum gilt Native American sculptures look good, and the new jewelry gallery looks fab. Source link
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Did You Sell Concert Tickets or Clothes? You May Owe Taxes
If you received more than $5,000 for online sales of “goods or services” in 2024, you might get a Form 1099-K. Don’t ignore it, an expert…