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Rosamund Pike plays war correspondent Marie Colvin in A Private War.

Arts

'A Private War': Combat Takes Its Merciless Toll On A Tireless War Correspondent

5:01pm November 01, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

To play the Sunday Times war reporter Marie Colvin, Rosamund Pike "transform[s] herself into a singular figure, one who goes places few people would and see[s] things that even fewer could handle."

Adam (Calum Worthy) and his rap battle mentor Behn Grymm (Jackie Long) in Bodied.

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Once More Unto The Beat: A Grad Student Enters The World Of Rap Battles In 'Bodied'

5:00pm November 01, 2018

by Scott Tobias

"It's juvenile. It's irritating. Yet it's also fiendishly clever in the way it anticipates and dismantles every argument that could be made against it," says critic Scott Tobias.

Xavier (Theodore Pellerin) and Jared (Lucas Hedges) share a fleeting moment of intimacy in the gay-conversion-therapy drama Boy Erased.

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Strong Performances Make 'Boy Erased' Indelible

5:00pm November 01, 2018

by Ella Taylor

Actor Joel Edgerton adapts for the screen a 2016 memoir about a teenager undergoing "gay conversion therapy;" he also directs and stars in this "intelligent message movie."

The documentary They'll Love Me When I'm Dead profiles a late-in-life Orson Welles as he struggles to complete The Other Side of the Wind.

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A Guide To Netflix's Orson Welles Mini-Fest: A Long-Unfinished Film And A Documentary About It

5:00pm November 01, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

Welles' abandoned Hollywood satire The Other Side of the Wind hits Netflix and select theaters alongside the new making-of documentary They'll Love Me When I'm Dead; the two films inform each other.

A panel discussion at the Partnering for Green Growth Summit in Copenhagen last month.

Survey Suggests 'Manels' — All-Male Panels — Are Still The Norm

3:52pm November 01, 2018

by Leila Fadel

Men outnumbered women 2 to 1 as private event speakers over the last five years, a survey by event software company Bizzabo found.

No Time For Losers: Brian May (Gwilym Lee), Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) and John Deacon (Joe Mazzello) sing the praises of callipygian females in Bohemian Rhapsody.

No Bed Of Roses, No Pleasure Cruise: 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

2:36pm November 01, 2018

by Glen Weldon

A fearless performance from Rami Malek and rock-solid rock anthems can't lift this listless musical biopic out of the sea of clichés in which it treads water.

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Orson Welles' Long Anticipated 'Other Side Of The Wind' Is Finally Finished

2:18pm November 01, 2018

by David Edelstein

Critic David Edelstein says the story behind the The Other Side Of The Wind — how Welles made it and what happened to it after his death in 1985 — is more fun than the completed film itself.

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'Punks Not Dead,' And Neither Is This Intrepid Granny

11:48am November 01, 2018

by Etelka Lehoczky

David Barnett and Martin Simmonds' comic about a troubled teen haunted by the ghost of Sid Vicious really gets going when it introduces centenarian (but immortal) ghost-buster Dorothy Culpepper.

Chart: Republicans Far More Likely Than Democrats To Say #MeToo Has Gone Too Far

On #MeToo, Americans More Divided By Party Than Gender

4:37pm October 31, 2018

by Tovia Smith

One year after the #MeToo movement took off, new NPR-Ipsos polls show the nation deeply divided on the issue of sexual assault and harassment. The fissures run more along party lines than gender.

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Is The Supreme Court The 'Most Dangerous Branch' Of Government?

1:22pm October 31, 2018

by Terry Gross

Author David A. Kaplan warns that the court is becoming increasingly polarized — and influential: "Why should nine unelected, unaccountable judges dictate so much policy in the country?"

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