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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…

Business

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…

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…

World

The Best Movie About Israel and Gaza Now Came Out 18 Years Ago

Watching movies is what I do — for decades as a film critic and for even longer than that, before…

Arts

‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ Review: Back With a Trident and Dad Jokes

The Atlantean hero-king returns as a new father, a bit worse for wear. But this sequel feels like a film…

Arts

What ‘Pocahontas’ Tells Us About Disney, for Better and Worse

The animated tale was both controversial and an Oscar-winning box office hit. It’s also one of the rare films from…

Arts

‘The Zone of Interest’ Review: The Holocaust, Reduced to Background Noise

Jonathan Glazer has made a hollow, self-aggrandizing art-film exercise set in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

Politics

Martin Scorsese’s Unwise Guys

From Travis Bickle to the protagonist of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the director has excelled at depicting a certain…

Arts

‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros’ Review: A Beautiful Collaboration

For his 44th documentary, Frederick Wiseman journeys to the French countryside to examine the workings of a family-owned, Michelin-starred restaurant.

Arts

Eli Roth Takes a Stab at Thanksgiving Horror

Ever since he was a boy, the director has wanted to make a gory movie about the holiday. “Thanksgiving” is…

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