Bringing a great crying scene to the big screen requires a combination of craft and empathy. This is how three recent movies — “Close,” “Babylon” and “The Woman King” — pulled it off.
Category: Movies
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Five Horror Movies to Stream Now
This month’s picks include a pandemic-inspired killer, a trance-induced massacre and a bloodthirsty little boy.
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Directors of ‘Skinamarink’ and ‘The Outwaters’ on Horror Experiments
Kyle Edward Ball, the filmmaker behind “Skinamarink,” and Robbie Banfitch, who made “The Outwaters,” talk about their creepy, buzzy movies.
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Reflections on Star Quality From a Golden Age of ‘Junk TV’
In a new memoir, a longtime casting director revels in memories of a bygone Hollywood, matching actors with the roles that made them stars.
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Claudia Cardinale Gets MoMA Tribute for Film Career
Ahead of a MoMA retrospective, the actress reflected on her career, which includes over 100 films and many classics of Italian cinema.
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‘Godland’ Review: Another of God’s Lonely Men Goes Amok (Spiritually)
In this striking drama set in the late 19th century, a Danish priest travels to Iceland and is gradually undone by a world he can’t understand.
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‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast
Alberto Sordi stars as an idealistic Italian Everyman caught up in a changing postwar world in this rediscovered comedy from the ’60s.
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‘The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic’ Review: Just Like the Movies
In this wry Finnish drama, a disabled man embarks on a journey to visit his girlfriend, encountering inaccessible infrastructure and evil goons along the way.
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‘Let It Be Morning’ Review: After the Wedding, the Siege
A Palestinian citizen of Israel returns to his hometown and encounters problems in this film from Eran Kolirin.
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‘Baby Ruby’ Review: Enfant Terrible
This psychological horror movie stars Noémie Merlant as a new mother experiencing delusions and paranoia.
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‘Knock at the Cabin’ Review: Who’s There? The Apocalypse.
In M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thought experiment, Dave Bautista brings the end of the world to a peaceful country cottage.
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‘Full Time’ Review: No Rest for the Working Girl
A breathlessly tense portrait of modern labor, this French drama stars Laure Calamy as a single mother who hits her breaking point during a nationwide strike.