Category: Movies

Film Artists Reflect on the Movies that Left a Mark

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For a retrospective series at the Berlin International Film Festival, directors and actors selected formative coming-of-age movies. Their choices show links between the cinematic past and present.
‘Juniper’ Review: Bad Grandma

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Starring Charlotte Rampling, this New Zealand-set drama is a portrait of intergenerational bonding with a heavy dose of cynicism.
‘Yanagawa’ Review: Her Spell

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Two brothers reconnect over a lost love in this drama from the Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu.
‘Bruiser’ Review: Of Fathers and Fractures

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A teenage boy is caught between the man who raised him and a new guiding figure in this affecting study of masculinity and coming of age.
‘Linoleum’ Review: Rocket Plan

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Jim Gaffigan plays a dual role as rival scientists in this mysterious yet surprisingly effective movie.
‘My Happy Ending’ Review: When Life Goes Off Script

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Andie MacDowell plays a screen and stage star facing a cancer diagnosis in this film directed by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon.
‘Dancing the Twist in Bamako’ Review: Youth in Revolt

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Robert Guédiguian’s jaunty new film places a young romance against the backdrop of post-colonial Mali in the early 1960s.
‘Chocolat’: What France Knew

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Newly restored, Claire Denis’s quasi-autobiographical “Chocolat,” a child’s-eye view of French colonialism, is austere yet vivid.
What ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Owes to Samurai and Sergio Leone

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The DreamWorks sequel has garnered praise for its vibrant animation, darker story and fight sequences inspired by classic films.
Why A.I. Movies Couldn’t Prepare Us for Bing’s Chatbot

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Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we get the messy awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney. Call it the banality of sentience.
She’s Oscar-Nominated, but Hong Chau Hopes to Stay an Underdog

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Up for best supporting actress for “The Whale,” she never dreamed of being a performer. But she has turned into “a force of nature,” says Brendan Fraser.
‘Tirailleurs’: Movie Honors the African Soldiers France Tried to Forget

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The success of “Tirailleurs,” set in the mire and mayhem of World War I, has helped resurface the often neglected story of colonial soldiers forced to take up somebody else’s fight.