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    ‘Let Them All Talk’ Review: That Ship Has Sailed

    #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }The Best of 2020Best MoviesBest TV ShowsBest BooksBest TheaterBest AlbumsAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main story‘Let Them All Talk’ Review: That Ship Has SailedMeryl Streep plays an author trying to reconnect with college friends in Steven Soderbergh’s film.Meryl Streep and Lucas Hedges in “Let Them All Talk.”Credit…Peter Andrews/HBO MaxBy More

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    Viola Davis Wants to Be Honest With You

    ‘In Ma Rainey, every body’s fighting for their value, and the thing that holdsus back is being Black. I want ed people to see what lay in the heart of her being. Which is: I know my worth.’ Viola Davis Wants to Be Honest With You Viola Davis has a moment in “Ma Rainey’s Black […] More

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    We’re Not Used to Seeing Women Act This Way

    These women rewrote their own stories in brilliantly revealing new ways. They can’t afford to be anythingless than comp etent. Masks Off The biopic. What an awful genre. What an awful name for a genre. Awful because it sounds like medicine. Awful because it’s too easy to confuse the actor for the person they’re playing, […] More

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    Dear Academy: Please Give Cher Another Oscar

    ‘Moonstruck is special. It’s when everythi ng is right. And I can look back and remem ber so many moments of it. And it was because we were always together. And we really got along. Really, really got along. We just loved each other.’ Cher Everlasting Movies, ordinarily vehicles to transport us out of our […] More

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    Watched ‘Mank’ but Never Seen ‘Citizen Kane’? Here’s a Primer

    #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }The Best of 2020Best MoviesBest TV ShowsBest BooksBest TheaterBest AlbumsAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyWatched ‘Mank’ but Never Seen ‘Citizen Kane’? Here’s a PrimerWhy does the new Netflix film revisit a drama from 1941? To many, the older movie is still considered the greatest ever made.Orson Welles in the film he also directed and co-wrote. The making of “Citizen Kane” is one of the subjects of “Mank.”Credit…Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesBy More

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    ‘To the Ends of the Earth’ Review: Seeking a Big Fish, and More

    #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }The Best of 2020Best MoviesBest TV ShowsBest BooksBest TheaterBest AlbumsAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyCritic’s Pick‘To the Ends of the Earth’ Review: Seeking a Big Fish, and MoreA Japanese TV host is lost in and out of translation in Uzbekistan.Atsuko Maeda in “To the Ends of the Earth.”Credit…KimStimBy More

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    Natalie Desselle, Comedic Heart of ‘BAPS’ and ‘Eve,’ Dies at 53

    #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }The Best of 2020Best MoviesBest TV ShowsBest BooksBest TheaterBest AlbumsAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyNatalie Desselle, Comedic Heart of ‘BAPS’ and ‘Eve,’ Dies at 53Her role as Halle Berry’s uproarious stardom-seeking sidekick helped define a decades-long career in film and TV.Natalie Desselle got her foot in the door as an actress by cold-calling one of the few Black managers in Hollywood. Credit…Mpi20/MediaPunch, via IPX, via Associated PressBy More

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    Warner Bros. Trades Box Office for HBO Max, but Stars Still Want Their Money

    #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }What to WatchBest Movies on NetflixBest of Disney PlusBest of Amazon PrimeHoliday TVBest Netflix DocumentariesAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyTrading Box Office for Streaming, but Stars Still Want Their MoneyIf studios are no longer trying to maximize ticket sales, what will that mean for often lucrative pay packages tied to a film’s performance in theaters?The actress Gal Gadot received more than $10 million from Warner Bros. after the studio decided “Wonder Woman 1984” would not have a traditional theater release.Credit…Chris Delmas/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesBy More