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You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

Movies are the great escape. “Optimistic endings, passionate romances,” sings the incarcerated dreamer of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” who looks to old Hollywood movies as an oasis of beauty and faith.

Great cinema has never died, but there’s something particularly heartening about the fact that it survived 2025. Looking back at this turbulent year, rife with the usual industry concerns over the ...

Paul Thomas Anderson won best director for the film, while Ethan Hawke and Rose Byrne won best lead performance for 'Blue Moon' and 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You.' By Carly Thomas Associate Editor One ...

Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year. By Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson Manohla Dargis It was another great year for the movies and another horrible, hair-on-fire year for the ...

Cast: Dacre Montgomery, Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo, Al Pacino, Myha’la The true story behind Dead Man’s Wire was so compelling that it inspired Gus Van Sant to make his first feature film in seven ...

The 1981 film "Body Heat" was filmed in Lake Worth Beach and Hypoluxo, Florida, in December 1980. An actors strike and cold weather in the original New Jersey location forced the production to ...

Movies with artist-protagonists are known to be disappointing. These pass muster and even inspire. Film Class Movies with artist-protagonists are known to be disappointing. These pass muster and even ...

The media image of the American farmer rarely reflects the existence of Black farmers, who take center stage in the documentary “Seeds,” which is on the schedule of this year’s Black Harvest Film ...

1 Washington National Opera Announces Plans to Leave the Kennedy Center This new focus meant that other storylines from the novel were required to be shortened or, at times, completely removed. Two of ...