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“The Nutcracker” is a cherished Holiday staple — one that, for every traditional treatment, inspires a left-field twist toward the contemporary.There’s a grain of truth in Lisa Simpson’s comment that everybody does...

‘Waitress: The Musical’If you didn’t get enough sugar, butter, flour from “Waitress,” the 2016 musical with a melodic pop score by Sara Bareilles, or “Waitress,” the 2007 Adrienne Shelly film starring Keri...

There’s a lot to like about this “Color Purple,” which is more inspired by the musical than a straight adaptation of it. Some songs from the show have disappeared; others have been...

It’s hard to mint a new movie star these days, which is why people in Hollywood were so high on Jonathan Majors. Cerebral and charismatic with the muscular build of an action...

Production for the highly anticipated horror-thriller drama "In the Family'' kicked off in the heart of Los Angeles on December 2nd, promising audiences an eerie journey into the supernatural realm. The film,...

Tracee Ellis Ross finds life after “black-ish” to be quite wonderful.Since finishing her eight-season run on the ABC series last year, she has focused on her hair care company, loaded up on...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower once praised Walt Disney for his “genius as a creator of folklore.” When Disney died in 1966, the line made it into his obituary, evidence of its accuracy....

Recent Disney films like the animated “Strange World,” with its gay teenage protagonist, have become cultural flash points. But “Pocahontas” prompted a full-blown fracas. Some people accused Disney of whitewashing history —...

new video loaded: ‘American Fiction’ | Anatomy of a ScenetranscriptBacktranscript‘American Fiction’ | Anatomy of a SceneThe screenwriter and director Cord Jefferson narrates a sequence from “American Fiction,” starring Jeffrey Wright.“My name is...

Michel Ciment, a French film critic whose passion for cinema helped define it as serious art for generations of French moviegoers, directors and producers, even while irking some of them with his...