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About seven years ago, Joan Baez — singer, activist, icon — decided she was ready.“I wanted to do what I called an honest legacy,” she said. “Then I realized that to do...

‘Ballerina’Stream it on Netflix.Between “Gunpowder Milkshake,” “Baby Assassins,” and “Kill Boksoon,” the hit woman subgenre is bubbling with new subversive takes on the masculine hired gun motif. The Korean director Lee Chung-hyun’s...

Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of November’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice....

In 2020 and 2021, my subscription took on a new role: helping to keep me from going stir crazy during the most cloistered months of pandemic lockdown. The DVD service was particularly...

Being a documentary subject can be a thankless kind of stardom, without much control over how your life story is told. In “Subject,” Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall went back to five...

‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’Watch it on Disney+.In 1937, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” captured the imaginations of children and adults, and set Disney on a path to creating endless...

The demimondes depicted by the American master Martin Scorsese vary widely — his New York stories alone span three centuries — but they have one common requirement: It takes intelligence, of one...

When Molly Manning-Walker was a teenager, her favorite film was Gaspar Noé’s “Irreversible.” In a recent interview, she remembered being impressed by the film’s infamously brutal, nine-minute rape scene, and how “immersive”...

A feisty Adèle Exarchopoulos does the heavy lifting in this otherwise uninspired action-comedy set in France.

‘About Last Night’ (Nov. 30)Stream it here.The chain of ownership here gets a tad convoluted, so stick with me: This romantic comedy from 2014 loosely remakes the yuppie-rom-com from 1986 starring Rob...