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The roads of Universal Studios’ backlots are named for exemplars of the company’s old star system: Kirk Douglas, Jimmy Stewart, Nat King Cole, Gregory Peck. One road is called Louise Beavers Avenue,...

On Tuesday, Jafar Panahi, the award-winning Iranian filmmaker, was ordered to serve a six-year prison sentence by Iran’s judiciary. He was detained last week after inquiring about another director, Mohammad Rasoulof, who...

Shonka Dukureh, who made her Hollywood debut last month as the soulful blues legend Big Mama Thornton in “Elvis,” died on Thursday in Nashville. She was 44.The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department confirmed...

‘The Passenger’Rent or buy it on VuduBlasco (Ramiro Blas), a former bullfighter, drives a van that shuttles folks around Spain. He’s a boor who doesn’t like feminists, and that doesn’t sit well...

Near the beginning of “Nope,” Emerald (Keke Palmer), who with her brother, Otis Jr. (Daniel Kaluuya), runs an animal-wrangling service for Hollywood shoots, delivers a pitch on a set. (If you’ve seen...

The minor key romance “Alone Together” is a modest affair, which credibly depicts the kinds of conversations about relationships that many people were confronted with during the early days of the pandemic....

You know the story: A disenchanted writer and college professor is seduced by a younger woman, snapping him out of an existential lull and helping him reconnect with his creativity. It’s a...

The high school senior Kelsa (Eva Reign) finds pleasure in discussing the animals she loves on her YouTube channel, seeking comfort in the fact that their names tend to be derived from...

In this marriage drama, a young couple heads to the countryside to break out of a toxic cycle.

In the popular imagination of the West, Lebanon is most frequently invoked as a place of ruin and strife, not romance and enchantment. The debut feature from the filmmaker Chloé Mazlo, “Skies...