Movies

Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) and Emir Abreu (John Leguizamo) in The Infiltrator.

Arts

'The Infiltrator' Offers A Familiar But Stylish Look Inside A Drug Kingpin's Empire

5:00pm July 14, 2016

by Mark Jenkins

Breaking Malo: In a film based on Robert Mazur's 2009 memoir, Bryan Cranston plays a U.S. Customs agent who goes undercover with the Escobar drug cartel.

Equals imagines a dystopian future where feelings are forbidden, but co-workers Silas (Nicholas Hoult) and Nia (Kristen Stewart) can't help it.

Arts

Familiar Science Fiction + Dull Romance 'Equals' Disappointment

5:00pm July 14, 2016

by Scott Tobias

A new film imagines a dystopian future where feelings are forbidden — but never manages to generate an emotional response in the viewer.

Thousands of disciples from all over the world attend Tony Robbins' annual "Date With Destiny Seminar" in Palm Beach, Fla.

Arts

'Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru' Fawns Over Its Charismatic Subject

5:00pm July 14, 2016

by Ella Taylor

A new documentary about motivational speaker Tony Robbins falls helplessly under the coal-walking life-coach's magnetic, intoxicating sway.

Lucky laboratory mice got to watch scenes from Orson Welles' classic Touch of Evil, starring Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston.

A Mouse Watches Film Noir And Offers Clues To Human Consciousness

4:36pm July 13, 2016

by Jon Hamilton

Researchers in Seattle have created a public observatory for studying the visual circuitry in a mouse's brain. Among the attractions: watching 18,000 neurons respond to Orson Welles' Touch of Evil.

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'Just Another Version Of You' Celebrates Norman Lear's TV Legacy

4:32pm July 11, 2016

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to legendary television producer Norman Lear about some insights into his character featured in a new documentary about his life called Just Another Version of You.

Abbas Kiarostami poses during his visit to the 54th Cartagena Film Festival in 2014. The filmmaker left Iran only twice to make movies.

Arts

'He Had Many More Films To Make': Remembering Iranian Director Abbas Kiarostami

8:35am July 09, 2016

by Howie Movshovitz

Kiarostami began making films in 1970 and continued after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. His work helped make Iranian cinema a major international force. The director died Monday in Paris at age 76.

Owen Suskind, whose story is told in the documentary, Life, Animated, was diagnosed with autism when he was 3. Now 23, Suskind still loves the Disney cartoons he watched growing up.

A Boy With Autism Makes Connections Through Cartoons In 'Life, Animated'

2:13pm July 08, 2016

by David Edelstein

A new documentary tells the story of Owen Suskind, a boy with autism whose love of Disney helps him navigate the world. David Edelstein calls Life, Animated "heartbreaking and exhilarating."

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Movie Review: 'Our Little Sister'

6:01am July 08, 2016

by Kenneth Turan

Japanese dramas don't get the publicity of that country's animated films but our reviewer says there is a new drama that deserves our attention. He says Our Little Sister must be seen to be believed.

Ten Years is an independent film featuring five separate stories that imagine what Hong Kong would be like in 2025. One is about a pro-democracy protester who immolates herself in front of the British consulate.

In 'Ten Years,' A Dystopian Vision Of Hong Kong's Future Under China

1:46pm July 07, 2016

by Alan Yu

The Hong Kong movie industry is best known for martial arts and crime thrillers, but this year's hottest film is a dark meditation on what Hong Kong could be like in 2025.

Documentary Explores The Cyber-War Secrets Of Stuxnet

4:54pm July 04, 2016

Alex Gibney's new documentary, Zero Days, looks at the Stuxnet worm — a cyber weapon developed by the U.S. and Israel. Gibney talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro about the film and the future of cyber warfare.