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Germany is often praised for its willingness to confront the darkest moments of its history, but in recent years, activists have pointed to a blank spot in the country’s culture of remembrance....

For a certain brand of Adam Sandler films, you know what you’re going to get: something cheerfully lowbrow, easygoing and listlessly comforting when used as background programming. Such movies are what make...

The first time you truly see Inez De La Paz, the galvanic center of “A Thousand and One,” she is framed against a wall that’s as red as a fire alarm. Inez...

Stream it here.‘Bill Nye: Science Guy’ (April 24)As the (comparatively) science-friendly Obama administration gave way to the climate denialism of Donald Trump, the 1990s-era children’s television personality Bill Nye reconsidered his mission...

In July 2020, the National Football League team in Washington announced that it would shed a name that was long considered a slur against Indigenous people. The decision was a victory in...

The director Raine Allen-Miller’s debut feature, “Rye Lane,” is self-assured in a way that recent, by-the-numbers rom-coms from the likes of Netflix have shied away from. Whereas some films make the mistake...

“Where’s the tingle?” might be the grouse come the end of “Spinning Gold,” a drama about Neil Bogart, the music-business impresario who founded Casablanca Records. Nearly every music biopic has a moment...

The brawl at the beginning of Ursula Meier’s “The Line” makes for a fitting start to a film about damage — the kind that only family can cause.In operatic slow-motion, Margaret (Stéphanie...

In the earliest decades of Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy-loving role players often hid their passion for the game. To the dominant culture, they were dweebs, then Satanists, then back to dweebs. Things...

Men will literally contemplate traveling to Mars instead of going to therapy in “Space Oddity,” directed by Kyra Sedgwick.