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Movie Review: '13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi'

6:23pm January 15, 2016

David Greene talks to Justin Chang, chief film critic for Variety, about 13 Hours — the new movie about the 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

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Oscars Still So White: Academy Nominates Nearly All White Actors, Again

6:10pm January 15, 2016

For the second year in a row, no non-white actor was among the 20 acting nominations for the Academy Awards.

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Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'The Hateful Eight' And Theatrical Experiences

11:41am January 15, 2016

by Linda Holmes

This week's show is all about Tarantino's latest, how to sit at the movies, digital and film, and what's making us happy this week.

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His 'Potential Was In Maturity': Helen Mirren, Chris Columbus On Alan Rickman

7:27pm January 14, 2016

The actor Alan Rickman has died. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the actress Helen Mirren and Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter movies, about the actor and his career.

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An optometrist confronts the killers responsible for his brother's death during the 1965 Indonesian genocide in The Look of Silence.

The Oscars Show Some Love To Global Topics

6:29pm January 14, 2016

by Malaka Gharib

And the nominees for the 88th Academy Awards include plenty of globally minded films, covering everything from Ebola to honor killings.

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'The Revenant,' 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' Scoop Up Most Oscar Nominations

5:21pm January 14, 2016

NPR reviews this year's Oscar nominations, which were announced Thursday morning. The Revenant picked up a dozen nominations, while Mad Max: Fury Road got 10 nods.

John Krasinski plays Jack Silva in a scene from 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.

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'13 Hours' Finds Fodder For Action, But Not Thought, In Recent History

5:00pm January 14, 2016

by Scott Tobias

Director Michael Bay makes no effort to put history in context in dramatizing the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi; he treats it as a setting for rah-rah action.

Stanislas Merhar and Clotilde Courau in a scene from In the Shadow of Women.

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Paris And A Perilous Marriage 'In The Shadow Of Women'

5:00pm January 14, 2016

by Mark Jenkins

Director Phillipe Garrel may seem to be making one of those French films that slowly ponders daily life, but in fact, he's packing the undoing of a marriage into 70 minutes.

Richard Gere in a scene from The Benefator.

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'The Benefactor' Finds A Wealthy Man Emotionally Broke

5:00pm January 14, 2016

by Ella Taylor

Writer-director Andrew Renzi uses the skills of Richard Gere to deftly draw a man whose wealth doesn't fully explain his inability to function with other people.

Ron Perlman and Rupert Grint in a scene from Moonwalkers.

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Faking The Fake Moon Landing Brings Surprisingly Few Laughs

5:00pm January 14, 2016

by Andrew Lapin

The dopey comedy Moonwalkers wastes a potentially amusing premise imagining that a legend about Stanley Kubrick faking the moon landing was true — sort of.