Arts
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Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains.
When I was four months pregnant, just as my midsection had grown vast enough to convert my pregnancy into a…
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Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present
Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present “Blade Runner,” “E.T.,” “Tron,” “The Wrath of Khan” and “The…
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Four Movies About Summer to Stream Now
Beach reads, grilled corn, baseball: These are the indulgences of summer. Movies too, especially when it’s hot as blazes outside…
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The Case of the Artist and the True-Crime Documentary
If you’re the sort of television viewer — like me — who watches true-crime documentaries and spends the whole time…
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‘Bullet Train’ Review: Ride and Die
The giddily violent bummer “Bullet Train” takes place in Japan on a high-speed train that turns into a theater of…
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‘They/Them’ Review: Scared Straight
When Kevin Bacon first appears in John Logan’s “They/Them” as Owen Whistler, a counselor at a summer gay conversion camp,…
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Tiona Nekkia McClodden Is Not Running Away
PHILADELPHIA — The artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden hit the gun range on a sweltering Monday in July. The air was…
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Black Artists Cast New Visions for the Great Migration
JACKSON, Miss. — Midday, midweek, in mid-90 degrees midsummer, the streets of a downtown historic district of this Southern capital…
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‘I Love My Dad’ Review: A Father Catfishes His Son
In his comedy, his writing and his social media presence, Patton Oswalt proves that nerdiness needn’t be a social liability.…
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‘Thirteen Lives’ Review: Dramatizing the Near Impossible
Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives,” a feat of endurance about the 18-day effort to rescue a youth soccer team from Thailand’s…