Film
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Arts
Five Horror Movies to Stream Now
If you’d rather see Santa slashing through the snow, check out “Christmas Bloody Christmas,” along with other frightful gems this…
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Finance
Highbrow Films Aimed at Winning Oscars Are Losing Audiences
The kind of critically praised dramas that often dominate the awards season are falling flat at the box office, failing…
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Arts
Is Sight and Sound’s List of 100 Greatest Films Too Tasteful?
To our chief critics, news that “Jeanne Dielman” topped the magazine poll was a welcome jolt. If only there had…
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Style
In ‘White Lotus,’ Beauty and Truth Are All Mixed Up
This season focuses on the willful delusion of the wealthy — and how easily preyed upon people who evade reality…
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Arts
Best Movies of 2022
Amid endless agonizing over the State of Cinema, the actual releases proved a bounty for film lovers, whether fans of…
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News
Julia Reichert, Documentarian of the Working Class, Dies at 76
She took home, to Ohio, a 2019 Oscar for “American Factory,” and in a long career teaching and making films,…
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Arts
Chantal Akerman’s ‘Jeanne Dielman’ Named Greatest Film of All Time in Sight and Sound Poll
The drama is among several by female and Black directors in the respected once-a-decade survey, last conducted in 2012.
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Finance
Could Theatrical Movies Shut Out Streamers for the Top Oscars?
A year after Apple’s historic best-picture win, the lead categories could be filled entirely by big-screen films. But don’t call…
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World
Israeli Filmmaker’s Critique of Popular Bollywood Film Draws Fierce Backlash
The filmmaker, Nadav Lapid, criticized “The Kashmir Files,” a Hindi-language film that depicts a violent chapter in the restive region…
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Arts
How ‘Black Panther’ Builds Complex Characters From the Politics of Colonization
What ingredients make a hero or a villain? Despite so many film franchises’ attempts at bringing nuance to the dichotomy…