Film
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World
Italy’s Raucous Holiday Classics Are Not Your Standard Hallmark Movies
Gleefully vulgar, the genre known as “Cinema Panettone” once dominated Italy over the holidays. Italian revelers recently flocked to the…
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Arts
‘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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Finance
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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Arts
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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Arts
The World Has Finally Caught Up to Colman Domingo
Colman Domingo was at the Equinox on 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue when his agent called. A rush of hope…
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World
Coming Soon: A George Santos Documentary Focusing on His ‘Human Side’
The filmmaker, Jenner Furst, will pay Mr. Santos an archival material fee, an arrangement similar to the one he used…
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Arts
3,000 Readers Told Us Their Favorite Holiday Movie. Which Came Out on Top?
There’s no “Bah, humbug” here.
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Arts
Can’t Make It to Broadway? Book and Movie Ideas for Theater Lovers.
There are plenty of novels, memoirs, documentaries and livestreaming options sure to satiate fans of theater.
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World
You Need Felix the Cat? Early Popeye? Talk to the King of Silent Animation.
“Guess you could say I hoard,” said Tommy José Stathes as he maneuvered around the shelves of his storage unit.…
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News
Michel Ciment, Eminent French Film Critic, Is Dead at 85
He helped define cinema as high art for generations of moviegoers and filmmakers in France and beyond, even if he…