Denounced in some Middle Eastern countries for undermining traditional gender norms, the hit movie is finding an audience in Saudi Arabia, illustrating the region’s shifting political landscape.
Category: Movies
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Fassbinder’s World: A Refuge for Outcasts
Rethinking the German filmmaker’s vast body of work while reading a new book about him.
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Action Movies to Stream Now: ‘Call Her King,’ ‘Supercell’ and More
From films with swift swordplay to those with mega-tornadoes, this month’s action picks go big.
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How ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ Reimagined a BookTok Sensation
The filmmakers didn’t want to disappoint fans of Casey McQuiston’s novel about the romance between a U.S. president’s son and a British prince.
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‘Heart of Stone’ Review: Mission Improbable
Gal Gadot plays an international superspy who teams up with an all-powerful computer in this ludicrous and derivative Netflix espionage thriller.
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Striking Writers and Studios Agree to Restart Negotiations
The two sides in the Hollywood stalemate will formally meet on Friday, after an informal sidebar session last week.
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‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Review: Blood on the Water
This horror movie, based on a chapter from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” is set on a cargo ship unwittingly transporting an evil demon.
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‘Love Life’ Review: Encounters in Grief
In this Japanese drama from Koji Fukada, the death of a child alters life for a couple and for the boy’s previously absent father.
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‘Sound of the Police’ Review: The Silence and the Fury
This documentary dives into the nation’s outrageous history of the policing of Black citizens by touching on the 2022 killing of Amir Locke.
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‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ Review: Keep Calm and Pine On
This film, about an American president’s son who falls for a British prince, starts with a giddy premise and has the derring-do to succeed.
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‘Jules’ Review: Close Encounters of the Lonely Kind
Ben Kingsley plays an elderly man struggling with a fading memory when an extraterrestrial crashes into his life.
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‘Love in Taipei’ Review: Finding Home
In this romantic comedy set in Taiwan, a young American finds herself torn between a parent-approved boy wonder and a rebellious slacker.