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‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’: when what’s hanging on the wall isn’t art

Writer-director Natalie Krinsky talks about the new romantic comedy and the role relationship residue plays in it.

The live-action ‘Mulan,’ streaming on Disney+, improves on the animated original

It has been wholly reimagined as a gorgeously visualized wide-screen action epic with no songs, a high-wattage Chinese cast, and a veneer of wuxia martial arts choreography.

‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things,’ on Netflix: It’s a date movie -- until it becomes a hall of mirrors

Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons play a couple on a long, snowy road trip to meet his parents, but who’s actually telling this story and what it means is increasingly uncertain.

Doc Talk: On the medal stand, teens battling addiction, Werner Herzog speaks

A look at “The Stand: How One Gesture Shook the World,” “16 and Recovering,” and “Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin.”

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In Focus: 25 years after his death, the films of Marlon Riggs are more relevant than ever
The groundbreaking documentaries will be available on Ovid.tv this month.

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Spy guy meets sci-fi in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’
Hollywood studios and theater chains hope this action-packed movie will lure people back in theaters.

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Appreciation | Ty Burr

Chadwick Boseman: 1976-2020

Actors squirrel themselves behind their roles; that’s the job. But the great ones have a sparkle, a charisma, a persona, that make them unique on the public stage. Boseman had it, you could tell.

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Who needs a TED Talk when you can hear ‘Bill & Ted’ talk?

Thirty years on, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reprise their roles in a sweet, dumb, unnecessary, and absurdly charming movie.

Elderly espionage, con-man comeuppance, electoral education

Documentaries about going undercover in an old-folks home, women who turn against the man who scammed them, and an outsider campaigning to be president of the Navajo Nation.

In ‘Nomad,’ Werner Herzog’s documentary about his friend Bruce Chatwin, one wanderer pays tribute to another

The filmmaker remembers his bond with the English travel writer and novelist.

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Why this movie critic isn’t reviewing ‘Tenet’

If you’ve read my reviews over the past few decades, you know I practically love movies to death. But that doesn’t mean I’d be willing to risk dying for one.

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In ‘All Together Now,’ on Netflix, a lovable heroine whose life is anything but lovable

The slick but emotionally effective drama is about a cheerful high school girl whose secret is that she’s homeless.

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Writer-director Charlie Kaufman on keeping it surreal for ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’

The writer behind "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' has directed an adaption of the novel "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" for Netflix.

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A new ‘David Copperfield,’ in which past meets present

A whimsical picaresque of a Dickens adaptation, enjoyable on a scene-by-scene (and character-by-character) basis without ultimately adding up to much. The fine cast includes Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, and Peter Capaldi