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‘Backspot’ Review: Queer Cheer-Squad Drama
Mongo 30 May 2024
This queer high school movie, starring Devery Jacobs and Evan Rachel Wood, channels an after-school special without the coming-out trauma.
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‘Handling the Undead’ Review: When the Dead Don’t Die
Mongo 30 May 2024
A zombie movie is wrapped in a gentle tale of mourning and love.
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Which Cannes Films Might Become Oscar Contenders?
Mongo 29 May 2024
Films backed by the studio Neon have won Cannes and gone on to Oscar nominations regularly in the last few years. That’s one reason to keep ...
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‘MoviePass, MovieCrash’ Review: When They Take Your Company Away
Mongo 29 May 2024
An illuminating documentary about the ill-fated (though now-revived) subscription service finds an unexpected story.
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Michelle Buteau Takes the Lead in ‘Babes’ and on Netflix
Mongo 27 May 2024
Once relegated to supporting roles, this comedian is a star of the film “Babes” and is moving to a bigger stage, Radio City Music Hall, for ...
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Hundreds of Readers Told Us Their Favorite Soundtracks. Which Came Out on Top?
Mongo 26 May 2024
Music that accompanied movies from the 1980s and ’90s dominated the recommendations, though sometimes the films themselves were beside the p...
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Richard Sherman, Songwriter of Many Spoonfuls of Sugar, Dies at 95
Mongo 26 May 2024
He and his brother, Robert, teamed up to write the songs for “Mary Poppins” and other Disney classics. They also gave the world “It’s a Smal...
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Director Who Fled Iran Brings a Movie and a Message of Hope to Cannes
Mongo 25 May 2024
At a news conference for his film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Mohammad Rasoulof reveled details of his escape from the country to avoid a ...
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10 Artists on Living and Creating Through Grief
Mongo 25 May 2024
Jesmyn Ward, Bridget Everett, Sigrid Nunez and seven other writers, actors, musicians and filmmakers talk to us about grief — how they’ve ex...
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An Extraordinary Documentary About the Most Precious of Lives
Mongo 24 May 2024
Margreth Olin’s “Songs of Earth” works almost like a poem as she records her parents and the Norwegian landscape.
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‘The Beach Boys’ Review: How to Make Good Vibrations
Mongo 24 May 2024
This Disney documentary looks at the family ties and sweet harmonies that turned a California band into a popular treasure.
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Maria Bellow and Dominique Crenn Celebrate Their Union in Mexico
Mongo 24 May 2024
The actress Maria Bello and the Michelin-starred chef Dominique Crenn said they owe their journey to the “three C’s”: cancer, Covid and, now...
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‘The Garfield Movie’ Review: This Feels Like Too Much Effort
Mongo 23 May 2024
Garfield, voiced by Chris Pratt, is joined by Samuel L. Jackson as his father, in an inert big-screen adaptation that fundamentally misunder...
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‘Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara’ Review: Church vs. State
Mongo 23 May 2024
This film, based on a true story about the kidnapping of a Jewish child in 19th-century Italy, underscores the devastating consequences of f...
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‘The Hunt for Gollum’ Is Announced, Then ‘Lord of the Rings’ Fan Film Disappears
Mongo 22 May 2024
When Warner Bros. greenlit a new “Lord of the Rings” movie and a 15-year-old fan film with the same title disappeared, its devotees sprang i...
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Gérard Depardieu Punches the ‘King of Paparazzi’ Outside Rome Cafe
Mongo 21 May 2024
Mr. Depardieu, 75, was seen striking the 79-year-old photographer Rino Barillari on the Via Veneto.
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Trump Calls ‘Apprentice’ Biopic at Cannes ‘Garbage’ and Plans to Sue
Mongo 21 May 2024
The director of “The Apprentice” was unfazed by the threat to the film, which covers the ex-president’s relationships with his first wife an...
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Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe on Yorgos Lanthimos’s New Film
Mongo 20 May 2024
The stars of his newest film, “Kinds of Kindness” explain that when working with the director, the less you know, the better.
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What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson
Mongo 20 May 2024
OpenAI has good reason to aim for a bot voice à la the one in “Her.” But that film was about relationships. What does this real-world turn s...
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At the Cannes Film Festival, Discoveries From Andrea Arnold and Rungano Nyoni
Mongo 18 May 2024
Though the history-inflected “Furiosa” and “Megalopolis” were the hottest tickets, films by Andrea Arnold and Rungano Nyoni proved to be dis...
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