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'Bob Marley: One Love' took the No. 1 spot at the box office for 2nd straight week

7:25am February 26, 2024

The film, which tells the story of the reggae singer making his 1977 album Exodus and preparing for a tour, has made almost $72 million in the U.S. so far.

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Oppenheimer movie dominates SAG Awards, while Streisand wins lifetime prize

5:21am February 25, 2024

by Robbie Griffiths

Oppenheimer dominated at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Saturday, as several winners paid tribute to last year's actors' strike. Barbra Streisand was given a lifetime achievement prize.

Horror movies: The unwelcome family member at the Oscars

5:10pm February 24, 2024

by Brianna Scott

It's been over 30 years since a horror movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Horror as a genre has had a reputation of not being taken seriously. Should the Academy rethink its stance?

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Greta Lee of 'Past Lives' talks about how language and identity are intertwined

8:12pm February 23, 2024

Greta Lee stars in the new movie Past Lives. She talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about the film and the ways language and identity are intertwined.

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Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) and Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel) in The Taste of Things.

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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

5:00pm February 23, 2024

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The show Homicide: Life on the Street, the film The Taste of Things and the novel Poor Things is based on.

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To become the 'Maestro,' Bradley Cooper learned to live the music

1:28pm February 23, 2024

by Terry Gross

In Maestro, his Oscar-nominated biopic about Leonard Bernstein, director and star Cooper worked with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin to find his own rhythm. Originally broadcast Jan. 2, 2024.

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Seydou (Seydou Sarr, in gray) crosses the desert in Io Capitano.

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Join a Senegalese teen on a harrowing journey in this Oscar-nominated film

1:28pm February 23, 2024

by Justin Chang

Over his mom's protests and warnings, 16-year-old Seydou sets out for a better life in Europe. Io Capitano is a grueling portrait of a migrant's journey, nominated for best international feature film.

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First-time filmmaker Cord Jefferson's 'American Fiction' is both moving and hilarious

6:31pm February 22, 2024

by Bob Mondello

Jeffrey Wright plays a frustrated author who writes an preposterously stereotypical "Black" book as a joke, only to have it become a bestseller in the comedy American Fiction.

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"We have to live with the monsters we create," Justine Triet told NPR's Scott Simon, when he asked whether characters linger with her after a film. "I've been living with these people for three years, and I think I'll probably live with them for at least another year."

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If you love courtroom dramas, this Oscar-nominated film is not to be missed

12:01pm February 22, 2024

by Linda Holmes

The courtroom drama is a beloved and established film genre. Anatomy of a Fall is a Best Picture nominee that feels familiar at first but immerses audiences in a different kind of legal thriller.

'The Zone of Interest' focuses not on the sights, but on the sounds of the Holocaust

5:05am February 22, 2024

by Bilal Qureshi

Best Picture Oscar nominee The Zone of Interest is about the horrors of Auschwitz, but opts never to show the violence of the camp on screen. Instead, we hear it through distant soundscapes.