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Magazine
Tubi Is Reviving a Lost Joy: Watching Really, Really Bad Movies
Their films have gone viral for their awful production values. But their success says fascinating things about what comes after…
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Food
They Can’t All Be Nominated for Best Picture, Can They?
It’s a very competitive year for the top Oscar. With precursor awards like the Golden Globes coming soon, here’s what…
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Food
‘The Three Musketeers’ and the Joy of Old-School Blockbusters
With its practical effects and broad-minded approach to story, the French franchise revives the pleasures of earlier movie spectacles, but…
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Politics
2023 Box Office Lessons: Audiences Sought Comfort, Skipped Spectacle
Movie audiences flocked to Taylor Swift, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” but were cooler toward returning superheroes like the Flash, Captain Marvel…
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Food
The Great Experiment That Is ‘The Color Purple’
A new adaptation shows how rich Alice Walker’s novel is and how the source material can lend itself to unconventional…
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Politics
The Best Movie About Israel and Gaza Now Came Out 18 Years Ago
Watching movies is what I do — for decades as a film critic and for even longer than that, before…
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Food
‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ Review: Back With a Trident and Dad Jokes
The Atlantean hero-king returns as a new father, a bit worse for wear. But this sequel feels like a film…
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Food
What ‘Pocahontas’ Tells Us About Disney, for Better and Worse
The animated tale was both controversial and an Oscar-winning box office hit. It’s also one of the rare films from…
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Food
‘The Zone of Interest’ Review: The Holocaust, Reduced to Background Noise
Jonathan Glazer has made a hollow, self-aggrandizing art-film exercise set in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
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Magazine
Martin Scorsese’s Unwise Guys
From Travis Bickle to the protagonist of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the director has excelled at depicting a certain…