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Ari Aster’s “Beau Is Afraid” is a supersized, fitfully amusing, self-important tale of fear and loathing. As the title announces, its protagonist, Beau Wassermann — a terminal sad-sack played by the invariably...

The funny thing about the film “The Worst Person in the World” from last year is that its flighty protagonist isn’t all that bad. The dark comedy “Sick of Myself,” also from...

Deep in the Angolan forest in 1974, a woman from a local tribe encounters a Portuguese soldier and shares a tender moment of connection. For a few beats, this early scene in...

Until last year, the actress Jodie Comer had never performed onstage. Comer, 30, a native of Liverpool, England, who began her career as a teenager, hadn’t gone to drama school. She hadn’t...

Their cumulative mood is resolutely frothy: poppy 1980s bops, eight-bit graphics, white-collar sharks gnawing on the geeks. For any child of the era, this is yet another casual stroll down memory lane...

In her new film “Showing Up,” the director Kelly Reichardt reunites for the fourth time with the actress Michelle Williams, who plays Lizzy, a stressed-out sculptor, in the Portland-set art world comedy....

Over the past year, the writer-director Saim Sadiq has garnered a series of unprecedented accolades for Pakistani cinema.Last May, his debut film, “Joyland,” out Friday, became the first production from Pakistan to...

‘Exile’Rent it for free on the Goethe-Institut’s website.“It’s not necessarily because you’re a foreigner … maybe they dislike you as a person,” Nora, the German wife of Kosovan immigrant Xhafer (Misel Maticevic),...

‘Chang Can Dunk’Stream it on Disney+.Bernard Chang (Bloom Li) is a basketball fanatic, but at 5-foot-8 and 16 years old, with more practice playing in the high school marching band than dribbling...

The star of “Paint” contemplates work, canines, a coyote attack and mortality while bouncing between the coasts.April 7, 2023Michaela Watkins describes herself as an actress who doesn’t know where she’s going to...