For decades, the film industry seemed to forget how to mint new male matinee idols. Then came a much-needed windfall.

Private messages detail an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

For decades, the film industry seemed to forget how to mint new male matinee idols. Then came a much-needed windfall.

The film feels like an artifact of a more optimistic feminist moment.

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A prolific actress, she was best known globally for her work with the filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, with whom she had a stormy relationship.

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In “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross uses what he calls “sentient perspective” to convey the characters’ view of their world. Critics say the result is stunning.

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The film feels like an artifact of a more optimistic feminist moment.

The old movies have a great deal to say, and linguistics can explain why.

Worrying that even if the rest of American society starts moving, our storytelling is still going to be stuck.

The movie’s marketing push, involving 400 brand tie-ins, shows how our culture has become littered with formulaic and meaningless collaborations.

“Nightbitch” seems like a horror film about the transformations demanded by motherhood, but its underlying message is much more radical than that.