“Avatar” might have “fire” in its title, but James Cameron’s sci-fi epic was just the latest of many 2025 films that dealt with the danger and destruction of fast-moving flames. This year, a new favored ecological threat emerged on the big screen.
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“Walk Hard” was a diss track in cinematic form that dismantles the script of “Walk the Line” so thoroughly that it might as well be a beat-for-beat remake
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Cameron Crowe’s famous flop may be best remembered for inspiring the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl,” but its legacy should also include being the first of 20 years of failed launches for a generation of leading men like Orlando Bloom, whose appeal couldn’t translate outside of franchises.
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Reporting from the 2025 Venice Film Festival, our correspondent found many selections engaging meaningfully with reality – both the painful present and the imagined past.
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In a setting away from their childhood homes, two young men realize they have taken different paths. One has entered into […]
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Contradictions and controversies were inescapable at this year’s Berlinale. Marshall Shaffer reports from the ground at a hotly contested festival where the action off-screen was just as noteworthy as anything on it.
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Our first report from Park City includes reviews of “If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You,” “The Thing with Feathers,” and more of this year’s Sundance selections.
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As his administration comes to an end, what do the movies of the past four years reflect about Joe Biden’s successes and failures?
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Tom Cruise’s star vehicle has a greater depth and wider influence than you might think – even if it took several decades to become apparent.
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The Jim Carrey vehicle was a commercial smash on its release twenty years ago, but even its own sequel couldn’t replicate its unique appeal.
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She slashes, she slays, she … sings? On ‘M3GAN’ and a musical moment that is more than just another “WTF” head-scratcher.
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While A24’s tenth anniversary got all the notice, it’s the trajectory of Megan Ellison and Annapurna Pictures that tells the real story of adult-oriented films over the past decade.
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