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Cult Icon John Waters On Breaking Taboos And Embracing Villains

2:08pm October 12, 2018

The filmmaker behind Hairspray and Pink Flamingos made his name setting new lows in bad taste. The Baltimore Museum of Art now has a retrospective of his work. Originally broadcast 2004 and 2010.

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Movie Review: 'First Man'

6:06am October 12, 2018

Noel King talks to Lost Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan for his take on Damien Chazelle's new film: First Man. It's about NASA's mission to land a man on the moon.

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Based on the memoirs of an addict and his father, the film stars Timothée Chalamet (left) as Nic Sheff and Steve Carell as David Sheff in a story about the ways addiction narratives don't tend to end neatly — or at all.

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Addiction Without An Ending In 'Beautiful Boy'

5:00pm October 11, 2018

by Linda Holmes

Based on the memoirs of an addict and his father, the film stars Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell in a story about the ways addiction narratives don't tend to end neatly — or at all.

"DO go on": Ike Barinholtz and Tiffany Haddish star in The Oath.

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'The Oath': A House Divided Against Itself, A Family You Cannot Stand

5:00pm October 11, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

Ike Barinholtz writes, directs and produces this timely comedy about a family whose deep political divide widens even further over Thanksgiving dinner. Sloppy at times, but its satiric aim is true.

Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands: Jimmy (Parker Sevak) and Lisa (Maggie Gyllenhaal) in The Kindergarten Teacher.

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In 'The Kindergarten Teacher,' Gyllenhaal's Nuanced Performance Earns A Gold Star

5:00pm October 11, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

Writer-director Sarah Colangelo's film features a finely calibrated performance from Maggie Gyllenhaal as a teacher obsessed with a student. The result is a "keenly excruciating" tragedy.

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'First Man' Captures The Upheaval Leading Up To Armstrong's 1969 Moon Landing

1:30pm October 11, 2018

by Justin Chang

Justin Chang says a new film about the space race is one of the "noisiest, clunkiest, most inelegant movies about space travel ever made" — all of which helps convey the chaos of space travel.

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Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in First Man.

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'First Man' Considers Glory, Grief And A Famous Walk On The Moon

10:15am October 11, 2018

by Linda Holmes

Ryan Gosling plays Neil Armstrong in a story about the noise, heat and struggle it takes to overcome forces to which you're meant to surrender.

Ryan Gosling plays astronaut Neil Armstrong in Damien Chazelle's new film, First Man.

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Chazelle's 'First Man' Chronicles Personal Losses Behind Armstrong's 'Giant Leap'

9:35am October 11, 2018

by Terry Gross

Director Damien Chazelle says his new film, which examines the years leading up to Neil Armstrong's monumental first step on the moon, is a story of "dreams — and the cost of pursuing those dreams."

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In '22 July' Filmmaker Paul Greengrass Tells The Story Of Terrorist Attack In Norway

8:03pm October 10, 2018

by Bob Mondello

Filmmaker Paul Greengrass, who has alternated between Bourne movies and true suspense stories, tackles another real-life drama in 22 July: a terrorist attack in Norway that killed 77 people in 2011.

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Isak Bakli Aglen and Jonas Strand Gravli play teens who are on the Norwegian island of Utøya during the 2011 terror attacks in Paul Greengrass' new film, 22 July. The film is being released Wednesday on both Netflix and in 100 theaters worldwide.

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'22 July' Chronicles Norwegian Terror Attacks As A Story Of Horror — And Hope

11:43am October 10, 2018

by John Powers

Paul Greengrass' new film re-creates the 2011 attacks in which a right-wing terrorist killed 77 people, most of them teens. Critic John Powers says 22 July is a superb film that avoids sensationalism.

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