Movies Why 'Conclave' is doing so well at the box office NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rebecca Rubin, senior film and media reporter at Variety, about the unusual success of the movie Conclave. Patrick Jarenwattananon Kai McNamee Juana Summers
Arts & Life Selena Gomez says 'Emilia Pérez' won't be her last Spanish language project Gomez grew up speaking Spanish, but lost her fluency around the same time she began her Hollywood career as a kid. She spent months relearning the language for her latest role as the wife of a Mexican cartel boss. Tonya Mosley
Arts & Life Friendship becomes a powerful act of resistance in 'All We Can Imagine as Light' This enveloping drama, which centers two women in Mumbai, is about solidarity between women, about making ends meeting, and about how a populous city can feel like the loneliest place in the world. Justin Chang
Arts & Life A Mexican drug lord comes out as a trans woman in the freewheeling 'Emilia Pérez' This Spanish-language musical about a cartel boss who undergoes gender-affirming surgery won two big prizes at Cannes, including a shared best actress award for its four women leads. John Powers
Arts & Life Karla Sofía Gascón says life as a trans woman informed her role in 'Emilia Pérez' The new film Emilia Pérez follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who was assigned male at birth but transitions to become her true self as a woman. Olivia Hampton
Movies While votes are counted, we look at how counting is used in movies The process of counting ballots has stressed out a lot of people this week. NPR's movie critic says he's been distracting himself from the election with cinematic counting. Bob Mondello
Arts & Life 'Juror #2' is a thorny legal thriller — and possibly Clint Eastwood's last film Eastwood takes measured aim at the American justice system in a film that centers on a murder trial — and a juror who realizes he may be implicated in the crime. Justin Chang
Arts & Life Hugh Grant shows his dark side in ‘Heretic’ In Heretic, Hugh Grant plays the villain. He tells Morning Edition that actors are drawn to the bad guys “rather than the dreary, goody-two-shoes lead.” Julie Depenbrock
Arts & Life 'Pedro Páramo' captures the disorientation of Juan Rulfo's timeless novel Netflix's film is based on a 1955 novel about a man who goes in search of the father he’d never met — only to discover that his father is dead, and the village he inhabited is haunted by ghosts. Carolina Miranda
Arts & Life Saoirse Ronan says her experience as a child actor continues to shape her work Ronan credits her parents and the filmmakers she worked with as a child for keeping acting fun. She stars as a woman struggling with addiction in The Outrun and as a World War II mother in Blitz. Ann Marie Baldonado
