Movies

Bruce Lee strikes a pose in Enter the Dragon.

Arts

Enter The Legend: 'Dragon' Turns 45

1:18pm August 17, 2018

by Justin Richmond

Enter the Dragon premiered 45 years ago this weekend. Bruce Lee was meant to break out as an international star, but instead, he died a month before the movie opened — elevating him to legend status.

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Mélanie Thierry is writer Marguerite Duras in Memoir of War.

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Life — Or Something Like It — During Wartime: The Wrenching 'Memoir Of War'

5:18pm August 16, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

Mélanie Thierry's quietly devastating performance anchors this adaptation of Marguerite Duras' wartime memoir chronicling her life in a perpetual state of uncertainty over her husband's fate.

She's With The Headband: Annie (Rose Byrne) and reclusive singer-songwriter Tucker (Ethan Hawke) share a moment in Juliet, Naked.

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An Aging Rocker, A Fawning Fanboy — And Thou: 'Juliet, Naked'

5:01pm August 16, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

In this beguiling, decidedly un-frothy adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel, Annie (Rose Byrne) exchanges emails with a singer-songwriter (Ethan Hawke) her inattentive boyfriend (Chris O'Dowd) reveres.

CIA officer James Silva (Mark Wahlberg) escorts Li Noor (Iko Uwais) in Mile 22.

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Muddled Action Thriller 'Mile 22' Should Have Pulled Off At Mile 3 Or So

5:01pm August 16, 2018

by Chris Klimek

Mark Wahlberg plays a CIA operative trying to extricate a mysterious informant (Iko Uwais) from a fictional country in this disjointed film that underuses Uwais and overuses Wahlberg.

L to R: Jonah (Evan Rosado) draws while Ma (Sheila Vand) and Paps (Raul Castillo) drowse, in We the Animals.

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When The Wild Rumpus Stops: 'We The Animals'

5:00pm August 16, 2018

by Bob Mondello

Documentarian Jeremiah Zagar's first feature film adapts Justin Torres' impressionistic autobiographical novel of boyhood; the dreamlike result is "intense, scary and ecstatically lyrical."

'Crazy Rich Asians': Love, Loyalty And Lots Of Money

6:38pm August 15, 2018

by Karen Grigsby Bates

The best-selling novel about Southeast Asia's super wealthy is now a movie. Jon Chu is the director. The movie's themes of identity, class and family are universal.

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National

What's Included In The Latest MoviePass Plan To Save Its Business

5:10pm August 15, 2018

by Glen Weldon

As MoviePass is struggling and trying to launch its latest plan, Dealflicks, another movie ticket subscription service, is calling it quits.

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Satire, Soap Opera, Duty, Devotion: 'Crazy Rich Asians' Is A Movie Milestone

1:59pm August 15, 2018

by Justin Chang

The romantic comedy based on Kevin Kwan's 2013 novel has been saddled with cultural and commercial expectations. Critic Justin Chang was happy to find the film doesn't collapse under the weight.

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In Skate Kitchen, the introverted Camille (played by Rachelle Vinberg, left) finds her tribe of skaters in New York City.

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Finding, Then Filming, The Young All-Female Crew In 'Skate Kitchen'

5:00am August 15, 2018

by Lakshmi Singh

Director Crystal Moselle stumbled upon a group of teenage skater girls on the New York City subway. Then she made a feature film that stars them.

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Rachel (Constance Wu) and Nick (Henry Golding) share a moment in the Singapore moonlight in Crazy Rich Asians.

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Opinion: Don't Sweat The #Repsweats And Let 'Crazy Rich Asians' Be What It Is

3:51pm August 14, 2018

by Kat Chow

NPR Code Switch reporter Kat Chow writes about the burdens imposed on representations of Asians and Asian-Americans in pop culture — even in a fun, frothy rom-com.