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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 and Aquaman.
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Books
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 storytelling.
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Newyork
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 and since, as a regular human. As a critic, I’m trained to study and coolly interpret the language of filmmakers. Off the clock, I watch to be diverted ...
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Books
‘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 for grown-ups who like fun.
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Books
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 that era that the company isn’t eager to remake.
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Books
‘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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Newyork
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 kind of male antihero.
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Books
‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros’ Review: A Beautiful Collaboration
For his 44th documentary, Frederick Wiseman journeys to the French countryside to examine the workings of a family-owned, Michelin-starred restaurant.
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Books
Eli Roth Takes a Stab at Thanksgiving Horror
Ever since he was a boy, the director has wanted to make a gory movie about the holiday. “Thanksgiving” is adapted from his 2007 faux trailer.
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Books
‘Thanksgiving’ Review: Gobble, Gobble, Gasp
From a fake genre trailer comes a full horror meal, courtesy of Eli Roth.