Movies

Louise (Victoria Bluck) comforts Ahmed (Idir Ben Addi) in Young Ahmed.

Arts

'Young Ahmed' Is A Flawed But Complex Character Study

5:00pm February 20, 2020

by Scott Tobias

The premise — young Belgian Muslim sets out to murder one of his teachers — has drawn sharp criticism; the film itself is "hugely flawed" but more thoughtful than the controversy surrounding it.

Making Fun Of The Rich Is A British Comedy Tradition Honored In 'Greed'

4:09pm February 20, 2020

by Bob Mondello

Steve Coogan plays a gazillionaire who throws himself a party that is the very picture of wretched excess in the satirical comedy Greed.

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Anya Taylor-Joy stars the title character in director Autumn de Wilde's new adaptation of Emma.

Arts

New 'Emma' Is A Frosted Cupcake Come To Life (In A Good Way)

1:41pm February 20, 2020

by Justin Chang

Autumn de Wilde's adaptation of the Jane Austen classic is as clever and rich as its famous heroine — in part, because its actors are so good at finding fresh nuances in this timeless material.

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'And Then We Danced' Is A Vivid Story Of Forbidden Love, Set To A Familiar Groove

11:32am February 14, 2020

by Justin Chang

In Tbilisi, Georgia, two male dancers in the national dance ensemble embark on a secret love affair. It's a fairly straightforward drama of first love — enhanced by the vitality of the setting.

A clerk pick an item for a customer order at the Amazon Prime warehouse in New York. Amazon Empire director James Jacoby describes the pace of work within the company's warehouses as "incredibly grueling."

Arts

Filmmaker Tracks Bezos' 'Rise And Reign' And How Amazon Became 'Inescapable'

11:30am February 14, 2020

by Terry Gross

Director James Jacoby catalogs the reach of the tech giant in his new PBS Frontline documentary, Amazon Empire. "So much power is pooled into the hands of one company and one man," he says.

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Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus star in the new dark comedy Downhill.

Arts

In 'Downhill,' Julia Louis-Dreyfus And Will Ferrell Are 'Not Here To Play It Safe'

5:03am February 14, 2020

by David Greene

In the film Donwhill starring Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, a married couple barely escapes an avalanche during a family ski vacation and are forced to reevaluate their lives.

Siblings Finneas O'Connell and Billie Eilish, photographed attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 9, 2020 in Beverly Hills.

Music & Culture

At Last, Billie Eilish's James Bond Theme Song Is Here

9:42pm February 13, 2020

by Stephen Thompson

"No Time to Die," the theme to the first new Bond film since 2015, trades on the moody melancholy of the newly minted Grammy winner.

He has a very particular set of coping skills: Tom (Liam Neeson) and Joan (Lesley Manville) face her cancer diagnosis together in Ordinary Love.

Arts

'Ordinary Love': Scenes From A Marriage Touched By Cancer

5:00pm February 13, 2020

by Ella Taylor

Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson bring a wry, lived-in tenderness to this "imperfect but affecting" tale of a long-married couple facing cancer together.

Kathy (Judy Greer) looks concerned, a thing Judy Greer does a lot in movies, in Buffaloed.

Arts

'Buffaloed': Debt Collecting For Fun And Profit

5:00pm February 13, 2020

by Mark Jenkins

Peg (Zoey Deutch) goes into the debt-collection business in a comedy that focuses so narrowly on its self-absorbed main character that the world around her fades to obscurity.

Michael (LaKeith Stanfield) and Mae (Issa Rae) look picture-perfect in The Photograph.

Arts

Romantic Drama 'The Photograph' Is Unfocused

5:00pm February 13, 2020

by Scott Tobias

Stars Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield have great chemistry, but this earnest romantic drama feels "curiously flat and under-seasoned."