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‘Why was it ever not normal?’

In "Turning Red," Pixar's 25th film, the focus is put on girlhood puberty, a topic never before broached by the family-friendly animation studio.

Doc Talk: Two films, three master musicians, one of them a whole lot younger than the others

A Blues master and a banjo legend are featured in documentaries screening this week.

Travels near, travels far, and travels very, very far

Once upon a time travel broadened minds. Now it seems to be narrowing them.

Meilin in the middle

The fur flies in Pixar’s ‘Turning Red,’ and it belongs to a red panda who also happens to be a 13-year-old girl.

In ‘Compartment No. 6,’ strangers on a train
In the Finnish drama ‘Compartment No. 6,’ two very different people share a journey from Moscow to Murmansk.

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Madam, he’s Adam — but, wait, so’s he
In ‘The Adam Project,’ on Netflix, Ryan Reynolds plays a man from 2050 who meets his younger self in 2022 (it’s not as confusing as it sounds).

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Who plays Batman best?

Which actor played Batman best? The votes are in, and we have a winner.

The new Batman movie starring Robert Pattinson is now in theaters, and leading up to its premiere, we asked readers to consider the many actors who’ve donned the cape and cowl over the years.

The Corleones, an American family, from "The Godfather."

A certain movie made an offer we couldn’t refuse: ‘The Godfather’ turns 50

There was never much doubt about “The Godfather” commercially. It would make money. The big question about the movie wasn’t financial but artistic. This seems unimaginable now. It didn’t back then.

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Jorge Roque Thielen in “El Father Plays Himself."

In the name of the father; itemizing Batcave contents; bearing witness in Romania

Documentaries on the making of “La Fortaleza," the mind of former Batman memorabilia collector Darren “Dags” Maxwell, and the story of the murder of 13,000 Jews in the Romanian city of Iași in 1941.

MOVIE REVIEW | ★★½
Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in "Lucy and Desi."

A different sort of Desilu production

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are the subjects of Amy Poehler’s documentary, “Lucy and Desi,” streaming on Amazon Prime.

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Amaree McKenstry-Hall in "Audible."

This year’s Oscar-nominated documentary shorts are long on challenging subjects

The films in the “2022 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary” program vary in style from the conventional to the self-reflexive. They provide terse, provocative reminders of such unresolved injustices and iniquities.

MOVIE REVIEW | ★★
From left: Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Justin H. Min in "After Yang."

‘After Yang’: Can you tell which one is a robot?

In this calmly futuristic drama, family gets redefined, with an assist from technology.

The cast of "CODA" accepts the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture and signs "I love you" at the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Barker Hangar on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022, in Santa Monica, Calif.

‘This is the stuff of childhood dreams,’ says writer-director of ‘CODA,’ shot in Massachusetts

The film, about the musical aspirations of a child of deaf parents, bagged a top SAG Award and is up for three Oscars, including best picture.

MOVIE REVIEW | ★★½
Robert Pattinson in "The Batman."

A quite dark Dark Knight: Robert Pattinson stars in ‘The Batman’

Paul Dano, Colin Farrell, and Zoë Kravitz costar as the Riddler, the Penguin, and Catwoman in the latest installment of the franchise opening widely this Friday.