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A visitor enters the Officers Casino building at ESMA on March 19, 2016. The windows are filled with images of civilians who were tortured and killed here.

'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror

5:04pm September 22, 2023

by Bob Mondello

Forty years after the fall of an Argentine military dictatorship that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of civilians, a video record of its trial has its U.S. premiere at Film Forum in New York.

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The best '90s thrillers according to NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour

4:30pm September 22, 2023

NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour hosts Stephen Thompson and Linda Holmes give us their picks for the best 90's thrillers.

Tina Fey and Michelle Yeoh join Kenneth Branagh in A Haunting in Venice.

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The big twist in 'A Haunting in Venice'? It's actually a great film

1:56pm September 22, 2023

by Justin Chang

Kenneth Branaugh is back as Hercule Poirot, and it's hard not to enjoy his company in this unusually spooky murder mystery based on Agatha Christie's 1969 novel Hallowe'en Party.

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Saul Armendariz (left) and Gael García Bernal attend the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Cassandro premiere.

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'Cassandro' honors the gay wrestler who revolutionized lucha libre

12:01pm September 22, 2023

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

The film pays homage to the real story of an unapologetically queer man in a male-dominated sport and society.

How the Game Stop short squeeze movie got made

4:57pm September 21, 2023

by Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi

The film Dumb Money tells the story of how Game Stop went from the brink of bankruptcy to its emergence as a "meme stock." But the story of how the movie got made is a drama of its own.

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Issa Rae voices Angela, Brooke Monroe Conaway plays Zuri and Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi is Stephen in Max's Young Love.

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There's a lot to love in the 'Hair Love'-inspired TV series 'Young Love'

11:52am September 21, 2023

by Eric Deggans

The animated series on Max follows a young Black family getting back on its feet after the mother is struck by illness. The show is a spin-off from an Oscar-winning short film by Matthew A. Cherry.

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Horses are spooked by the Woolsey Fire near Paramount Ranch on Nov. 9, 2018, in Agoura Hills, Calif.

You've likely seen this ranch on-screen — burned by wildfire, it awaits its next act

6:04pm September 20, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

The Woolsey wildfire devastated most of Paramount Ranch's Hollywood heritage in 2018. Human-driven climate change is demanding difficult decisions about what to preserve in the rebuilding process.

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Sally Field plays a cotton mill worker in the 1979 drama Norma Rae.

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Wonder where Hollywood's strikes are headed? Movies might offer a clue

4:26pm September 19, 2023

by Bob Mondello

Hollywood has churned out films that depict labor organizers as communists, and labor bosses as gangsters. So it should come as no surprise that real-life negotiations with the studios are so tricky.

Clockwise from top left: Invisible Beauty, Foe, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 and Nyad.

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Here are the movies we can't wait to watch this fall

7:01am September 19, 2023

With no end in sight for the Hollywood strikes, we check in on the new releases for the fall. Our critics share their recommendations for more than 25 films coming out between now and Thanksgiving.

Journalist Michael Schulman says Drew Barrymore's great aunt, Ethel Barrymore, also undermined union efforts in 1929.

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Drew Barrymore's Hollywood labor scuffle isn't the first for her family

4:25pm September 18, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

The talk show host reversed course after intense backlash over the announced return of her show. Barrymore's great aunt, actor Ethel Barrymore, also undermined union efforts in the 1920s.