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Dec 29, 2025
Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the sciences and beyond.
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Dec 29, 2025
The medium has been bigger than niche for a long time. That became apparent to everyone in 2025.
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Dec 29, 2025
In this month's picks, Sydney Pollack on Frank Gehry, Rob Reiner on Albert Brooks and Mike Figgis on Francis Ford Coppola.
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Dec 29, 2025
CNN, CBS and ABC ring in 2026, and a new reality show set in Palm Beach begins.
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Dec 28, 2025
The actress, who died at 91, had what can't be taught: charisma and attitude onscreen. Here are some highlights.
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Dec 28, 2025
The movies made the French actress a star, but photography sealed her stardom.
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Dec 28, 2025
In the decades after becoming a megastar, the French actress became as known for her politics as she once had been for her acting career.
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Dec 28, 2025
"And God Created Woman" made her a world-famous sex symbol in the 1950s. She later gave up acting to devote her life to animal welfare.
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Dec 27, 2025
The director Josh Safdie had a personal connection to 1950s players, but he also enlisted professionals to choreograph the action and employed a visual trick.
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Dec 27, 2025
Roaming the American Museum of Natural History in pajamas made for a night to remember for hundreds of children and their brave parents.
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Dec 27, 2025
When American studios wouldn't back his film about a laid-off manager committing gruesome murders, the director returned to Korea. Now he has a hit on his hands.
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Dec 27, 2025
Anthony Ramos loves hanging out with customers during busy days that may find him writing a new musical, catching a friend in a show or performing in his own.
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Dec 26, 2025
For very different reasons, new hours from Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Kathleen Madigan, George Civeris and Jay Jurden are worth your time.
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Dec 26, 2025
This month's picks include a World War I revenge tale, a vampire superhero and female assassins.
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Dec 26, 2025
For very different reasons, new hours from Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Kathleen Madigan, George Civeris and Jay Jurden are worth your time.
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Dec 26, 2025
James Cameron narrates a sequence from his film, featuring Oona Chaplin and Stephen Lang.
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Dec 26, 2025
A "Shark Tank" investor, a supermarket magnate and even N.B.A. All-Stars make appearances in the table tennis comedy.
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Dec 26, 2025
James Cameron narrates a sequence from his film.
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Dec 25, 2025
Whether you're a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
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Dec 25, 2025
Park Chan-wook, the director of "Oldboy" and "The Handmaiden," brings comedic flair to the cruel tale of an employee pushed to the brink.
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Dec 24, 2025
The actor stars as a magnetic, striving table-tennis champ in Josh Safdie's new movie, one of the most exciting movies of the year.
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Dec 24, 2025
Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet's new film, showed that he was a character in his own right.
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Dec 24, 2025
In an extraordinary performance, Amanda Seyfried plays the founder of the Shakers in a singular film.
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Dec 24, 2025
Craig Brewer's toe-tapping weepie about the triumphs and tragedies of a Neil Diamond tribute band is exactly the movie we need right now.
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Dec 24, 2025
As England goes to war, a provincial choir master played by Ralph Fiennes is challenged to find available voices in this poignant drama set in 1916.
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Dec 24, 2025
A stunner of a debut film follows a group of boys at a water polo camp, where an outsider is just trying to fit in.
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Dec 24, 2025
The movie gets at least one thing right: Rebooting the shlocky, widely-panned creature-feature, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd, is a goofy idea.
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Dec 24, 2025
Jim Jarmusch's uneven triptych, a prizewinner at Venice, saves its best segment for last.
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Dec 24, 2025
Kate Winslet directs a formulaic script by her son, Joe Anders, about a dying matriarch and her quarreling adult children.
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Dec 24, 2025
For years she was pigeonholed as a rom-com star. Her turn as a blue-collar mom with a love of Neil Diamond just might vault her back to the Oscars.
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Dec 24, 2025
Everywhere you looked this year, men were feuding. In movies like "Splitsville," "Eddington" and "Friendship," it was gloriously pathetic.
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Dec 23, 2025
In his work, he often returned to Manzanar, the camp in which he and his family, along with thousands of other people of Japanese descent, were interned during World War II.
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Dec 23, 2025
The actor, comedian and YouTuber now faces seven counts of rape and sexual assault in Britain.
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Dec 23, 2025
Across film ("Sinners," "One Battle After Another"), theater ("Ragtime") and TV ("The Lowdown"), four works suggested what achieving racial equality in America would take.
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Dec 23, 2025
The show reunited Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz for the first time since "Wicked." It wasn't enough to counter poor word of mouth and other challenges.
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Dec 23, 2025
Seven takeaways from the final episodes of "The End of an Era," the Disney series exploring her globe-trotting concert extravaganza.
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Dec 23, 2025
Seven takeaways from the final episodes of "The End of an Era," the Disney series exploring her globe-trotting concert extravaganza.
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Dec 23, 2025
Yes, "KPop Demon Hunters" makes the list. But that was just one of the standouts in a great year.
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Dec 23, 2025
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman and Rita Wilson served a platter of high-octane holiday high jinks in this unhinged 1996 comedy.
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Dec 23, 2025
The British actress's directorial debut, "Goodbye June," is based on a script written by her son and follows a fractured family reuniting in the hospital over the holidays.
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Dec 22, 2025
She was a white actress, he was a popular Black entertainer, and their relationship elicited racist reactions in 1960, including from John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign.
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Dec 22, 2025
Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year.
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Dec 21, 2025
"Avatar: Fire and Ash" took in $88 million over the weekend, a sizable No. 1 total that nonetheless fell 34 percent behind the opening for its franchise predecessor.
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Dec 21, 2025
At Greenwich House Theater, Greta Gertler Gold and Hilary Bell's stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay's novel hovers between reverie and reality.
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Dec 21, 2025
Onscreen, she tends to play women fighting the patriarchy; offscreen the image she cultivates has meant conservatives consider her one of their own.
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Dec 20, 2025
There is plenty of stimulation for young theatergoers in the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved book.
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Dec 20, 2025
She had been working with refugees and channeled her anger over their situation into the ferocious performance, which was filmed several years ago.
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Dec 19, 2025
A busy designer who worked on over 100 films, he was also a racecar driver and a painter of photorealistic works, many depicting cars and their operators.
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Dec 19, 2025
The release of a "Spinal Tap" concert film that was filmed at Stonehenge has been delayed.
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Dec 19, 2025
A busy designer who worked on over 100 films, he was also a racecar driver and a painter of photorealistic works, many depicting cars and their operators.
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Dec 19, 2025
The couple are gearing up for the Broadway opening of "Bug," about a descent into paranoia and psychosis in a squalid motel room.
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Dec 19, 2025
In this month's picks, torrents, trolls and time travel.
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Dec 19, 2025
The final column of the year looks at the end of things — the end of the world, the end of youth — along with an underrated holiday gem.
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Dec 19, 2025
The newest chapter in the saga of the Na'vi people continues to build their highly detailed world. Here's a guide to catch you up on the developments.
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Dec 19, 2025
Here are just a few of the year's finest indies, documentaries and international selections, available to stream at this very minute.
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Dec 19, 2025
This documentary could be better, but it offers a helpful lesson for film fans new to the movies of that decade.
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Dec 18, 2025
For the franchise's third movie, James Cameron throws in new creatures, new landscapes, melodramatic plot lines and big battle sequences. It's a lot.
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Dec 18, 2025
Roger Ebert said he "hated, hated, hated, hated, hated" Reiner's 1994 film "North." The director took it in stride.
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Dec 18, 2025
In their documentary, Laura Poitras ("Citzenfour") and Mark Obenhaus trace the career highs and lows of the famed investigative journalist.
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Dec 18, 2025
Roger Ebert said he "hated, hated, hated, hated, hated" Reiner's 1994 film "North." The director took it in stride.
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Dec 18, 2025
The latest installment to this entertainment juggernaut relies on a cheap, rote formula and easy gags to keep children engaged.
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Dec 18, 2025
Will Arnett and Laura Dern add emotional heft to Bradley Cooper's intimate comedy about a separated spouse who finds solace in stand-up.
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Dec 18, 2025
Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in a thriller that is best seen with a full house.
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Dec 18, 2025
Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in a thriller that is best seen with a full house.
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Dec 18, 2025
The story of David and Goliath is presented as a feel-good family epic in this animated musical released by the popular religious media company Angel Studios.
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Dec 18, 2025
The band became a major success in 1993 with the hit "Mr. Jones." Since then, the group has done its best to keep rock music alive.
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Dec 17, 2025
Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents.
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Dec 17, 2025
A group of prominent figures issued a statement memorializing Mr. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. "We were their friends, and we will miss them forever."
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Dec 17, 2025
Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents.
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Dec 17, 2025
The son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, has long struggled with drug addiction.
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Dec 17, 2025
Her film "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" earned an Oscar nomination in 1988 and was inducted into the National Film Registry for its cultural significance.
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Dec 17, 2025
With orange beanies, a roast pig and a mayor-elect, the New York premiere of A24's buzzy Ping-Pong film was its own kind of flick.
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Dec 17, 2025
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that it had reached a deal with YouTube for exclusive rights to the show starting in 2029.
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Dec 17, 2025
Kaouther Ben Hania's dramatized feature about a Palestinian girl who is killed in Gaza City is both powerfully direct and purposefully removed.
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Dec 17, 2025
Across the newsroom, journalists picked their most notable movies from 2025.
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Dec 17, 2025
These moments from his movies brought the laughs, in many different ways.
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Dec 17, 2025
A group of prominent figures issued a statement memorializing Mr. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. "We were their friends, and we will miss them forever."
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Dec 17, 2025
Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence and Amanda Seyfried give great performances as women who buck convention. But some voters prize ‘likability' above all else.
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Dec 17, 2025
From the recent ‘Eternity' to classics like ‘Defending Your Life' and ‘Beetlejuice,' the gag remains the same: What if the next world worked just like this one?
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Dec 17, 2025
This 1941 comic murder mystery is back for a week in a sparkling restoration at Film Forum.
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Dec 17, 2025
We polled film fans in the newsroom. These are the titles that stuck with us this year.
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Dec 16, 2025
Nick Reiner will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, prosecutors said.
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Dec 16, 2025
The son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, has long struggled with drug addiction.
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Dec 16, 2025
The son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, has long struggled with drug addiction.
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Dec 16, 2025
The lineups, which Oscar voters will choose from next month, include the new casting category, which was largely a dress rehearsal for best picture.
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Dec 16, 2025
"This Is Spinal Tap," "When Harry Met Sally …," "Misery": Reiner delivered an incredible number of accessible, original and adult movies that we still cherish.
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Dec 16, 2025
A musical adaptation of the story will open at the Majestic Theater next spring. And yes, the score includes "Wind Beneath My Wings."
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Dec 16, 2025
Welcome to our Regency Thunderdome, where we will endeavor to answer this question once and for all.
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Dec 16, 2025
Here are four highlights across TV, film and podcasting from the second half of the year.
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Dec 15, 2025
Mr. Reiner, who was arrested in connection with the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, once estimated he had been in drug treatment 18 times as a teenager.
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Dec 15, 2025
In films like "A Few Good Men," the director's ideas of honor and morality were stated as plainly as could be.
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Dec 15, 2025
The actor-turned-director spent decades at the forefront of the entertainment world.
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Dec 15, 2025
Reiner's "All in the Family" role didn't just capture the arguments of its time. It gave us a preview of our own.
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Dec 15, 2025
The director's family said that he and his wife, Michele, died on Sunday, and county jail records show that their son, Nick Reiner, was arrested.
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Dec 15, 2025
He played one of the most memorable sitcom roles of the '70s before going on to direct a string of enduring movie classics. Here are some of his career highlights.
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Dec 15, 2025
The festival, which takes place in winter and late in the award season, has, in recent years, been somewhat overshadowed by its sister events in Cannes and Venice.
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Dec 15, 2025
"I would feel deflated if I couldn't go into something deeply existential and explore," said the Norwegian actress, who stars in the Oscar-buzzy "Sentimental Value."
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Dec 15, 2025
This millennial favorite wouldn't be the same without a certain sidekick.
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Dec 15, 2025
Other picks include a family production of "The Snow Queen," the Broadway-bound "Every Brilliant Thing" and the acclaimed comedy "Sorry for Your Loss."
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Dec 15, 2025
Across the arts, these 10 performers took a leap of faith this year and stuck the landing in a big way.
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