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Netflix's class warfare movie 'The Platform' has struck a chord. Two economists explain why

Economics professors Susan Harmeling and Nico Voigtländer break down Netflix's social allegory "The Platform," exploring how the Spanish thriller is even more resonant in wake of the coronavirus pandemic.




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Review: 'Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint,' obscurity to art world star

Hilma af Klint didn't invent abstract art, but her stature today reflects something more important




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Review: 'The Booksellers': If you love books, you'll adore this documentary

'Booksellers' documentary offers a lovely look at the enduring value of the printed word.




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Review: Amazon premiere 'Selah and the Spades' gives high school movies a new queen bee

Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe makes her debut with teen noir "Selah and the Spades," a tale of teen angst and control set in a Pennsylvania boarding school.




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Review: 'Endings, Beginnings' doesn't know what to do with its strong cast

Starring Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Jamie Dornan in a love triangle, Drake Doremus' 'Endings, Beginnings' leaves its compelling young performers at loose ends.




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Review: Eureka! Handmade stop-motion 'Strike' is different and good

"Strike," the first feature by Gigglefish Animation Studios, is quirky and charming.




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Review: 'The Quarry' a spotlight for Shea Whigham and Michael Shannon

"The Quarry." with Shea Whigham as a fugitive and Michael Shannon as a small-town Texas police chief, combines pulp storytelling with loftier themes to mixed impact.




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Brian Dennehy was 'a tough guy' but also a real sweetheart, his famous friends say

Sylvester Stallone, Mia Farrow and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among celebs saluting Brian Dennehy, the towering Irish American actor who died Wednesday at 81.




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Review: 'A White, White Day' delivers a superb psychological puzzle worth piecing together

Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason's award-winning second feature, "A White, White Day," is a gripping, ruminative drama of grief and revenge.




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Review: 'Abe' takes the stomach route to Israeli and Palestinian hearts, but it's all overdone

Noah Schnapp of "Stranger Things" and Seu Jorge try to cook up a recipe for unity in "Abe."




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Review: The burning chemistry of Wagner Moura and Ana de Armas lights up Netflix biopic 'Sergio'

Documentary filmmaker Greg Barker has two new movies in one weekend: His narrative debut with Netflix biopic "Sérgio," and the Showtime doc "The Longest War."




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Join 'That Thing You Do!' band for a reunion watch party honoring Adam Schlesinger

A watch party with fictional band the Wonders, from Tom Hanks' 1996 film "That Thing You Do!," will honor songwriter Adam Schlesinger, who died from COVID-19.




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'First Cow' for best picture? A critic's guide to the Oscars if movie theaters don't reopen in 2020

Coronavirus may have shut down movie theaters, but even if they stayed closed, we'd have a strong slate of Oscar contenders beyond Elisabeth Moss in "Invisible Man."




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Review: Throwback 'Why Don't You Just Die!' brings back pulpy memories — Russian-style

Russian horror-comedy "Why Don't You Just Die!" from writer/director Kirill Sokolov recalls "Pulp Fiction" influenced films of the late 1990s.




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Review: 'The Willoughbys' is loud, colorful and frantic, but at least it's a distraction

Netflix's animated adaptation of Lois Lowry's book "The Willoughbys," featuring the voices of Will Forte, Maya Rudolph and Martin Short, is hard to love.




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20 years later, the cast and crew of 'Love & Basketball' consider its legacy in an oral history

Writer-director Gina Prince Bythewood, executive producer Spike Lee and cast members Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Regina Hall, Gabrielle Union, Tyra Banks and Alfre Woodard reflect on the enduring legacy of the landmark black romance "Love & Basketball" and how the industry has changed in the intervening decades.




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'The Hunger Games' universe expands with a prequel film in the works

Lionsgate announced Tuesday that Suzanne Collins' latest Panem novel, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," will be adapted into a film.




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Warner Bros. movie 'Scoob' heads to home video in May amid coronavirus theater closures

Warner Bros.'s animated Scooby Doo movie is going straight to home viewing platforms amid the COVID-19 pandemic.




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Review: What was a nice Jewish couple doing in a business like this?

Netflix documentary "Circus of Books" looks at the strange history of this now-closed West Hollywood institution of gay culture.




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Review: Like a teenage spin on Todd Haynes, 'To the Stars' delivers bittersweet take on the past

"To the Stars" sensitively explores forbidden love and small minds with a supporting cast that includes Jordana Spiro, Shea Whigham, Malin Akerman and Tony Hale.




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In Netflix's 'The Willoughbys,' a family is stuck at home. Choosing love sets them free

"The Willoughbys" director Kris Pearn explains how his Netflix movie is about siblings who've spent their entire lives inside their family home together learning to choose to love one another.




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Review: Chris Hemsworth-starring 'Extraction': Come for the action, stay for the … nah, that's it

In Netflix's "Extraction," an ambitious mix of action and emotion directed by Sam Hargrave, Chris Hemsworth stars as a moody mercenary.




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Review: Hugh Jackman is at his best in the engrossing school-scam drama 'Bad Education'

The HBO movie "Bad Education" explores a wild true story with one of Hugh Jackman's best film performances and strong support from Allison Janney.




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Review: Documentary 'Pahokee' finds heart and hope in a small Florida town

Four high school seniors in the small rural town of Pahokee, Fla., are the subjects of an observational and empathetic new documentary.




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Lego movies build a new home at Universal Pictures

The 'Lego' movies were a key part of Warner Bros.' film strategy, but yielded diminishing returns.




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Review: In 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' a brutal, sexy, spellbinding take on outlaw legend

In "The True History of the Kelly Gang," director Justin Kurzel's fourth and best feature, George MacKay stars as 19th-century Australian bushranger Ned Kelly.




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How do you release an action movie during a pandemic? The makers of Netflix's 'Extraction' find out

Chris Hemsworth and the team behind the new Netflix action movie "Extraction" on releasing the film into a world unrecognizable from when they made it.




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'Extraction' ending explained: Will there be a sequel to the Netflix action movie?

The makers of Netflix's "Extraction" explain the ambiguous ending and sequel plans for the Chris Hemsworth action film.




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Film festivals to join forces for YouTube's We Are One: A Global Film Festival

YouTube and Tribeca Enterprises will launch the 10-day digital event We Are One: A Global Film Festival to benefit the World Health Organization and those affected by coronavirus.




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'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' to stream early on Disney+ in time for Star Wars Day

'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' will arrive on Disney+ on May 4, two months earlier than originally anticipated.




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Reopening California: Hollywood is figuring out how to start rolling again

Hollywood is eager to get back to work after the coronavirus outbreak, but union officials, studio executives and others must first agree on new protocols to make filming safe again.




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Column: What would Mary Poppins do during the lockdown? Julie Andrews launches a podcast

Julie Andrews and her daughter give families a little lift amid the coronavirus quarantine with a new reading podcast, "Julie's Library."




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Oscars eligibility rules are changing in the face of coronavirus crisis. Here's what's new

With movie theaters shut down due to the pandemic, the motion picture academy's board voted Tuesday to temporarily suspend its long-held rule requiring a theatrical release for Oscar consideration




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The worst summer movie season ever? Nope. It's time for an #UltimateSummerMovie Showdown

We're compiling the greatest summer movies of all time — and we need your help.




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From 'Star Wars' to 'Independence Day,' an excellent adventure down summer-movie memory lane

Times entertainment columnist Glenn Whipp and film critic Justin Chang sat down to reminisce about their favorite movies and moviegoing experiences of the season.




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Reopening Hollywood: What's next for movies?

With California debating reopening during the coronavirus, what's next for the movies? We asked Hollywood




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Here are all the movies Hollywood is still planning to open this summer

The wide releases that are still planning to open between the Fourth of July and Labor Day include "Tenet," "Mulan" and "Wonder Woman 1984."




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How will movie theaters make customers feel safe after coronavirus?

Movie theaters might start opening up as soon as mid-June. That's going to be more complicated than it sounds.




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Review: Netflix has another rom-com winner in 'The Half of It'

Alice Wu returns with Netflix's 'The Half of It,' a charming manifesto on love that mines both high school romances and classic movies.




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Review: 'Deerskin' is an entrancingly warped love story between a man and his jacket

Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel star in "Deerskin," director Quentin Dupieux's latest darkly absurdist comedy.




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Review: Income inequality? 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' says the system needs fixing

Filmmaker Justin Pemberton turns French economist Thomas Piketty's 2013 manifesto on inequality, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," into an engaging documentary.




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Review: Smartly scripted 'Tammy's Always Dying' pits mother and daughter in toxic cycle

"Tammy's Always Dying" is a low-key, insightful comic drama about a striving woman and her albatross-like mother, played by Felicity Huffman.




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Review: 'The Wretched' is a nifty horror film with shades of both Spielberg and Hitchcock

The Pierce Brothers honor their influences with "The Wretched," and mask familiarity with atmosphere and suspense.




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Review: A troubled teen and a rodeo veteran team up in Texas set indie drama 'Bull'

Amber Havard and Rob Morgan co-star in "Bull," a drama about a troubled teen in a poor Houston neighborhood who comes under the tutelage of her neighbor.




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Review: 'The Infiltrators' is an inventive hybrid of immigration drama and heist thriller

Directed by Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra, "The Infiltrators" is a mix of documentary footage and staged fiction scenes to tell the story of undocumented young immigration activists taking their work inside a Florida detention facility.




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Review: Netflix's 'All Day and a Night' is a bruising, empathetic gangland drama

Ashton Sanders ("Moonlight") stars in this film from "Black Panther" cowriter Joe Robert Cole.




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Review: A 72-year lesbian romance for the ages revealed in 'A Secret Love'

The Netflix documentary "A Secret Love" recounts the 72-year relationship between Pat Henschel and Terry Donahue, who had to hide their true selves from the world.




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All lighted up with no movies to play: Hollywood theaters in limbo

Photos capture Hollywood's movie houses in this pandemic moment.




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New 'Star Wars' projects from Taika Waititi and Leslye Headland are on the way

'Thor: Ragnarok's' Taika Waititi is directing and cowriting a new "Star Wars" film, and "Russian Doll's" Leslye Headland is developing a series for Disney+.




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Celebrate Star Wars Day with new Barbie dolls and a Baby Yoda board game

Mattel and Hasbro are saluting Star Wars Day by offering four limited-edition Barbies and a Baby Yoda version of the Monopoly board game.