Bob Mondello
Stories
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Movies
'Happening' takes place in France in the 1960s, but speaks to this particular moment
A college student in 1960s France encounters difficulties in seeking an abortion that feel very of-this-moment in Audrey Diwan's timely drama Happening.
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National
Review: Doctor Strange and the Scarlet Witch take on the 'Multiverse of Madness'
After unleashing all kinds of trouble in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel's Doctor Strange will try to clean up the mess in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
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Arts & Life
Hollywood and tyrants: How filmmakers take on the powerful
A look at how Hollywood has depicted authoritarians, from Duck Soup to The Last King of Scotland.
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National
Review: Robert Eggers' 'The Northman' is 2+ hours of art-house savagery
The legend that Shakespeare based Hamlet on has inspired another work: Robert Eggers' violent new film, The Northman.
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Arts & Life
Jared Leto is Marvel's bat-man in the vampiric 'Morbius'
An ailing biochemist aims to cure himself of a debilitating illness, but ends up infecting himself with vampirism in the Marvel movie Morbius.
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Movies
Review: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' is as encouraging as it is on-point
A Chinese-American businesswoman travels the multiverse in the comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once by the filmmaking duo Daniels, made up of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
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Arts & Life
'The Godfather' bridged old and new Hollywood to save American moviegoing
On its 50th Anniversary, The Godfather is one of the most influential and respected films in Hollywood history. But that outcome didn't seem likely at its premiere.
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Movies
A hair salon becomes a beauty shop of horrors in Palestinian thriller 'Huda's Salon'
A visit to a hair salon in the West Bank turns nightmarish in Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad's new thriller Huda's Salon.
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Movies
Two new books revisit the legacy of silent-film comic Buster Keaton
Two new books about a legendary silent film comic — Dana Stevens' "Camera Man" and James Curtis' "Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life" — give fans new reason to revisit Keaton's work.
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Arts & Life
'2001' and 'Blade Runner' visual effects wizard Douglas Trumbull has died at 79
Trumbull, who brought otherworldly landscapes to life pioneered physical, not digital, effects that catapulted audiences into hyperspace and became Hollywood's go-to guy for sci-fi imagery.