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ANORA is in theaters October 18. MARK EYDELSHTEYN and I are in a car zooming down a mountain road on the first day of the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. [...]

TWISTERS is in theaters July 17. Glen Powell knows he looks--well, like that. One of his early parts, in the 2012 romance Stuck in Love, was named, quite simply, 'Good [...]

Fifty-one years of acting. Hundreds of roles. One Samuel L. Jackson. SECRET INVASION is now on Disney+. * THINK ABOUT SOME OF THESE iconic movie lines: 'I've had it with [...]

* CHRISTOPHER NOLAN remembers when he first heard the name Oppenheimer. It was via the lyrics of Sting's 1985 antiwar hit, 'Russians': 'How can I save my little boy from [...]

* WORLD-PREMIERING at TIFF, Hard Truths is Leigh's first picture in six years and the first one he's made in more than a decade with a contemporary setting. Pansy (played [...]

* HOWARD'S REPUTATION as a Hollywood stalwart who crafted classy hits and middlebrow prestige pictures always masked where his true skills lay: in his ability to take larger-than-life characters and [...]

WHILE GRANT has done some terrific work in recent years as either villains or at least characters of questionable moral standing, his turn in Heretic--Scott Beck and Bryan Woods's A24 [...]

ELEVEN NOMINATIONS: It's too many.' [paragraph] Daniel Kwan is describing a conversation he had with his mother, June Kwan, on the day the Oscar nods were announced. He and Daniel [...]

CIVIL WAR DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND. A24. R. AMERICANS LOVE to see their institutions destroyed onscreen. Since Independence Day had aliens blow up the White House, it has been standard [...]

LA CHIMERA DIRECTED BY ALICE ROHRWACHER. TEMPESTA. NR. ALICE ROHRWACHER'S La Chimera begins with a dream-- and it's entirely possible the dream never really ends. The film follows Arthur (Josh [...]

ATHENA is out on Netflix now. THE MOST STUNNING scene of any movie this year was conceived partly as an attempt to beat your attention span. Athena, Romain Gavras's riveting [...]

The climactic scene in Michael Mann's Ferrari is a shocking depiction of the 1957 crash in Guidizzolo that killed 11 people, including Ferrari driver Alfonso de Portago (played by Gabriel [...]

FERRARI DIRECTED BY MICHAEL MANN. NEON. R. MICHAEL MANN's rip-roaring Ferrari begins in unlikely silence. Early one morning, Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) wakes up in bed next to his mistress, [...]

Film critics Angelica Jade Bastien, Bilge Ebiri, and Alison Willmore just want to see movies that knock them out. That was hard to find in 2022--aside from a few surprise [...]

Oh, Canada Paul Schrader returns after decades with an adaptation of Russell Banks's novel Forgone, starring Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi, and Uma Thurman. Megalopolis This epic sci-fi allegory is the [...]

OSCAR SEASON IN NEW YORK is always packed with sentimental movie galas, but it's safe to say the November premiere of Steven Spielberg's West Side Story was more emotional than [...]

Not every great movie has a great ending. The reverse is also true: A ho-hum flick can become instantly unforgettable thanks to an awesome conclusion. The end is arguably the [...]

KE HUY QUAN swung that damn fanny pack everywhere. It hung from an unusually long strap, and for weeks Quan swung it in the kitchen, he swung it while watching [...]

Adam Pearson, an actor with neurofibromatosis type 1, initially entered the acting world as a joke when he responded to a casting call for the film "Under the Skin." Since then, he has hosted TV specials and appeared on various programs as an activist for disability rights. Pearson's biggest role to date is in the film "A Different Man," where he plays a character with the same condition as him. The film explores the portrayal of disability onscreen and challenges traditional ideas of representation. Pearson is known for his humor and sincerity in guiding viewers through the issues surrounding disability. [Extracted from the article]

MARIO PUZO'S THE GODFATHER, CODA: THE DEATH OF MICHAEL CORLEONE is available on Blu-ray and VOD. FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA is trolling me about our resemblance. 'This guy looks like I [...]

Best Classic Camp Text: Gal Gadot's 'Imagine' Video The first truly camp piece of quarantine art washed up on our digital shores like a bloated whale carcass in March, when [...]

NO HARD FEELINGS DIRECTED BY GENE STUPNITSKY COLUMBIA PICTURES. R. Too earnest perhaps to qualify as a sex comedy and not quite romantic enough to count as a romantic comedy, [...]

We Made Another Book! Disco. The freak show. Neoconservatism. Q-tips. They all started in the world's most creative, inventive city. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK is on sale October 20. [...]

Gina Prince-Bythewood's The Old Guard is an unlikely superhero film, both patient and intimate. But she's always been uncompromising. ABOUT HALFWAY through The Old Guard, Gina Prince-Bythewood's upcoming film about [...]

In the autumn of 1918, as the second wave of the deadly influenza epidemic that had been rampaging across the world reached the U.S., people started staying away from movie [...]

THE TEN BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR By DAVID EDELSTEIN 1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood In this gorgeously meandering farrago, two aging, increasingly irrelevant white males from '50s [...]

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 DIRECTED BY JAMES GUNN. MARVEL STUDIOS/ WALT DISNEY STUDIOS. PG-13. * IT SEEMS HARD to believe now, but James Gunn's first Guardians of the [...]

SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE, you might just do something that would have been unthinkable a few months ago: go to the movies--in a theater. Maybe it'll be a long-awaited [...]

PLANE DIRECTED BY JEAN-FRANCOIS RICHET. LIONSGATE. R. Blood. Brutality. Beheadings. What more could you ask for? * PLANE IS A MOVIE for your lizard brain--the part of you that craves [...]

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER DIRECTED BY JAMES CAMERON. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS. PG-13. * JAMES CAMERON is never leaving Pandora. That much is certain after seeing Avatar: The Way of [...]

Not so long ago, I found myself at a Best Buy in Brooklyn, mesmerized by a wall filled with giant TVs, all seductively state of the art. Each was playing, [...]

WHEN IT CAME OUT 20 years ago this July, Eyes Wide Shut proved to be one of Stanley Kubrick's weirdest, most derided efforts--owing in part to a fully revved-up Hollywood [...]

TERRY GILLIAM DOESN'T have an office; he has a lair. It sits atop the London Highgate home the Monty Python animator and director has lived in since 1985, and you [...]

THE WHALE DIRECTED BY DARREN ARONOFSKY. A24. R. I WAS NOT AT THE FIRST Venice Film Festival press screening of Darren Aronofsky's The Whale, but I did see the movie [...]

Karmalink Directed by Jake Wachtel GOOD DEED ENTERTAINMENT BILLED AS A 'Buddhist sci-fi mystery,' Jake Wachtel's film follows two working-class Cambodian kids who, driven by dreams of a missing golden [...]

This document provides a list of twenty-five recommendations for movies, TV shows, operas, art exhibitions, books, podcasts, theater performances, classical concerts, and music events in New York. The recommendations cover a wide range of genres and interests, including drama, romance, crime, history, mythology, and more. The document aims to provide library patrons with diverse options for their research and entertainment needs, respecting different perspectives and cultural sensitivities. [Extracted from the article]

BULLET TRAIN DIRECTED BY DAVID LEITCH. SONY PICTURES. R. Bullet train feels like someone crossbred Kill Bill with a Final Destination movie. And at times, David Leitch's film is almost [...]

THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN a wish-fulfillment quality to Adam Sandler's films, particularly his comedies. Sometimes the wish in question is simply a desire to get away with his pals to [...]

TOP GUN: MAVERICK is in theaters May 24. I'd never noticed the curiously melancholy overtones of Harold Faltermeyer's famous Top Gun theme until the opening moments of the brand-new Top [...]

Inhospitable Directed by Sandra C. Alvarez ABRAMORAMA DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT THE broken American healthcare system are nothing new, but Inhospitable applies a laser focus to a part of the problem that [...]

IT'S HARD NOT to be reminded of the Top Gun movies while watching the opening scenes of Devotion. The film cuts from sensuous close-ups of a Vought F4U Corsair fighter [...]

Taika Waititi made Jojo Rabbit, a black comedy about a Nazi fanboy coming of age at the end of the Third Reich. He cast himself as Hitler. JOJO RABBIT opens [...]

A HERO DIRECTED BY ASGHAR FARHADI. MEMENTO FILMS. PG-13. Asghar Farhadi's A Hero is a moral fable and a mousetrap, a drama that plays like a thriller--the gripping, often infuriating [...]

There have been some great Spider-Man movies. This is not one of them. THE ONE GOOD IDEA that the Tom Holland-starring Spider-Man films had was an obvious one: Make Peter [...]

WEST SIDE STORY DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS. PG-13. YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW before going into West Side Story that Steven Spielberg has been itching to make [...]

JULIET TAYLOR, casting director: 'This was in 1969-Marion Dougherty had been sort of the queen casting director in the world of live television. She had done some movies as well, [...]

* EDGAR WRIGHT is one of our great musical directors even though he hasn't technically made a musical. Whether they're fighting the undead, laying waste to quiet Cotswold towns, or [...]