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‘Brandy Hellville’: A New Twist for Cult Documentaries
The film examines the retailer’s tactics and is surprisingly similar to exposés about cults.
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CreditHBO 7 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about even if you’re not planning to see them.
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‘Civil War’ Review: We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us. Again.
In Alex Garland’s tough new movie, a group of journalists led by Kirsten Dunst, as a photographer, travels a United States at war with itself.
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CreditA24, via Associated Press Alex Garland Answers the Question: Why Make a Film About Civil War Today?
Even before his drama was released, the writer-director faced controversy over his vision of a divided America with Texas and California as allies.
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‘Dawn of the Dead’ at 45: A Zombie Love Affair That Never Died
A look back at George A. Romero’s film, one of the most influential horror movies of all time, as it gets a theatrical revival.
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CreditNew Amsterdam Entertainment Watch a Sniper Scene From ‘Civil War’
Alex Garland, the film’s writer and director, narrates a sequence from his movie.
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Credit Anatomy of a Scene‘Sasquatch Sunset’ Review: Big Feet and Small Brains
Four unrecognizably hairy actors, including Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough, play mythical creatures in this endearingly bonkers movie.
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CreditBleecker Street ‘The Greatest Hits’ Review: Yes, She Could Turn Back Time.
A high-concept movie about music and grief lacks follow through.
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CreditSearchlight Pictures ‘In Flames’ Review: A Patriarchy Horror Story
Set in Pakistan, the story of a young woman and her family, hemmed in by men, shifts from realism to genre, with heart-pumping consequences.
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The Dystopian ‘Civil War’ Reaches No. 1 at the Box Office
Alex Garland’s movie, starring Kirsten Dunst, surpassed “Godzilla x Kong,” with an estimated $25.7 million in North American ticket sales on its first weekend.
By Brooks Barnes
Prince Harry Hits the Polo Field in Front of Netflix Cameras
The Duke of Sussex competed in a match in South Florida the day after the announcement that he will be working on a new polo-related Netflix project.
By Carson Griffith
Queer Women Behaving Badly: These Movies Scrap the Coming-Out Story
“Love Lies Bleeding,” “Bottoms” and “Drive-Away Dolls” are leading a wave of stories about lesbians living their lives, committing crimes along the way.
By Laura Zornosa
Netflix’s New Film Strategy: More About the Audience, Less About Auteurs
Dan Lin, the streaming service’s new film chief, wants to produce a more varied slate of movies to better appeal to the array of interests among subscribers.
By Nicole Sperling
A.I. Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them.
Machine-learning technologies are being used in film restoration for new home video releases. But some viewers strongly dislike the results.
By Calum Marsh
Eleanor Coppola, Who Chronicled Her Family’s Filmmaking, Dies at 87
She made documentaries of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” and her daughter Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides” and recalled their lives in books.
By Clyde Haberman
On ComedyThe O.J. Joke: How the Simpson Case Changed Comedy’s Boundaries
Norm Macdonald and Jay Leno made the double homicides such a constant topic that refraining from jokes the way David Letterman did was noticeable.
By Jason Zinoman
Critic’s NotebookAlain Delon at His Very Best: Ravishing, Yes, but Also Destabilizing
The French star is the subject of a series at Film Forum focusing on movies from the ’60s and ’70s, when he became an international sensation.
By Manohla Dargis
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
In this month’s sci-fi picks, cruise through dreams, hook a right at multiverses, turn left at portals, then put it in reverse for some time travel.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
TimesVideo‘Civil War’ | Anatomy of a Scene
The writer and director Alex Garland narrates a sequence from his film.
By Mekado Murphy
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