New York Film Festival unveils lineup, plots in-person fest

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NEW YORK — A year after depending on drive-in and virtual screenings, the New York Film Festival, one of the premier destinations of...

Women filmmakers denounce Spanish cinema prize for Depp

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MADRID — Spain's leading group of women filmmakers on Tuesday condemned the San Sebastian film festival’s decision to award Johnny Depp its highest honor,...

Review: Aretha Franklin bio ‘Respect’ maybe too respectful

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The tag line for the latest biopic about an American icon reads: “Find out what it means.” Good luck with that. ...

Jane Withers, child actor turned commercial star, dies at 95

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Jane Withers, the former child actor who bedeviled Shirley Temple on the screen and went on to star in a series of B movies...

With coronavirus rising, ‘The Suicide Squad’ opens softly

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NEW YORK — Moviegoing, once expected to be closer to semi-normal levels by now, continues to be battered by the pandemic, the delta variant...

Olympic karate finishes with cinematic kick, downer ending

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TOKYO — The final bout of karate's Olympic debut seemed to have everything that makes combat sports so fascinating, right down to an incredible...

‘Reservation Dogs’ smashes stereotypes of Indigenous people

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TULSA, Okla. — Two Indigenous filmmakers are smashing the caricatures and stereotypes of Native Americans, who since the earliest days of film and TV...

Gotham Awards to shift to gender-neutral acting awards

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NEW YORK — The Gotham Awards, the annual New York ceremony for independent film, is the latest film honor to shift to acting categories...

Embattled HFPA announces reforms to bylaws, membership

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NEW YORK — The Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Thursday announced reforms to its bylaws and an overhaul of its membership process in a...

Review: In ‘Free Guy,’ a videogame ‘Truman Show’

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In upside-down simulations, time loops and videogames turned inside out, a growing body of movies trade on the feeling of living in a false...