In this month’s picks, a portrait of a vanguard filmmaker, a look back at a televised clash between writers, and a reflection on a Hollywood star and pinup.
Category: Movies
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‘The Holiday’: A Festive Cocktail, Equal Parts Charm and Cringe
Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black delivered a lesson on chemistry, good and bad, in the 2006 Nancy Meyers rom-com.
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‘The Thing With Feathers’ Review: Parenting Without Your Better Half
A grieving father struggles to care for his two children after the death of his wife. Even with its star, Benedict Cumberbatch, the movie never takes flight.
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‘Left-Handed Girl’ Review: An Electric Portrait of Taipei
The filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou tells a sensitive story of a mother and her two daughters struggling to get by in Taiwan.
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‘BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions’ Review: An Artist’s Mind-Expanding Collage
In this dazzling essay movie, the director Kahlil Joseph draws on an array of sources — news clips, old movies, family albums, an encyclopedia of ”Africana” — to create a thrilling whole.
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‘The Secret Agent’ Review: Wagner Moura Is on the Run
Wagner Moura takes cover in this knockout from the filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho that is largely set in 1977 during Brazil’s miliary dictatorship.
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‘Zootopia 2’ Review: Natural Habitats, Expanded
A sequel to the 2016 hit, this movie about an animal metropolis takes on an even messier social allegory than the first one, while building out a wider (if bloated) universe.
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‘Hamnet’ Review: The Rest Is Silence
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in a heartbreaking adaptation of the best-selling novel.
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‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ Review: Forgive Them, Father
Josh O’Connor leads a star-studded cast in the latest Benoit Blanc mystery — this one, about religious cults of personality.
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‘Eternity’ Review: Dead Reckoning
Elizabeth Olsen plays a dead woman who must choose her forever partner in this silly afterlife rom-com.
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Disney’s ‘Zootopia 2’ Will Be a Test for Jared Bush
Jared Bush is trying to make the heart of the media empire beat more consistently. “Zootopia 2” will be a test.
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Rose Byrne and Sheila Heti on Parenting, A.I. and the Nature of Personality
The “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” actor and the author of “Alphabetical Diaries” met for a wide-ranging conversation.