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Oscars recognize casting for the first time, offering a spotlight on a key job in the movie industry
NEW YORK -- Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part “Wicked” movies were people actually pulling the strings. They set the table for the hit double-punch movies long before the cameras ever rolled out: The casting directors, helped…
Movie Review: In 'Scarlet,' transplanting 'Hamlet' to an anime dreamworld
The Japanese writer-director Mamoru Hosoda has made some amazing films that take profound leaps into dreamlike worlds. Hosoda's “Mirai” (2018) is about a 4-year-old boy who's resentful of his newborn sister. But in his backyard…
What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies
The film-industry panic sparked by the news of Netflix's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. has been immediate and intense, and in the days immediately after, it was hard to find anyone not named David Zaslav (the head of the studio's parent…
The Best Movies of 2025
Seventeen-year-old Johanne (Ella Øverbye) discovers love vicariously, in the pages of a book, and when that overwhelming feeling toward another person strikes her for the first time, her instinct is to put it down in words. For a time, her…
Our 16 Favorite Holiday Genre Movies, Ranked
In most cases, a list of great holiday movies would be incomplete without classics such as A Christmas Story, Die Hard, or Home Alone. This isn't one of those cases. Those films, while certainly dramatic and excellent, are not quite genre movies.
The 10 Best Movies of 2025
I'm not going to lie: 2025 was not a year that's easy to put a rosy spin on, even in the introductory blurb to a list of the year's best movies. This has been a 12-month period of daily pummeling by the forces of history and fate, of waking up to…
Which Christmas Movie Trope Are You?
Christmas movies are predictable, but that's what I feel makes them so easy to watch. I know what's going to happen, there aren't any plot twists, and it's just light, fun Christmas brain candy. So, what Christmas movie trope are you? Get ready to…
The Best Rappers In Movies Over The Years (2025)
As hip-hop continues to grow globally, we would be remiss to gloss over the power of the moving image in cementing the genre as a cultural phenomenon. Music videos were the first introduction to the ways hip-hop so beautifully tells stories.
'A movie diary': how Letterboxd became a film review haven for the algorithm-averse
I never thought I would use Letterboxd. The app's premise of logging reviews of every film you watch felt like counting steps, and I generally prefer to exercise my pretension the old fashioned way – such as getting a BFA or frequenting art…
Ella McCay review - James L Brooks returns with a sorry mess of a movie
Ella McCay, a new comedy drama written and directed by James L Brooks, feels like a relic, and not just because it's set, seemingly arbitrarily, in 2008. Broadly appealing, well cast, neither strictly comic nor melodramatic, concerning ordinary…
What Warner Bros. Discovery sale means for Hollywood jobs, streaming prices, and movies
The Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount-Netflix drama has Hollywood in a tizzy this week — but it's missing one big thing: What about you? Americans are deep in a new era of entertainment and are increasingly likely to get their fix on YouTube…
Save the Theaters. Go On a Movie Date.
Last week, news of to acquire Warner Bros., followed by Paramount's swift move to outbid them, filled me with dread. Not only because any consolidation might limit the variety of film projects that hit the market, but also because these mergers…
Just in Time for Christmas, Nic Cage's Jesus Horror Movie Comes Home
Sometimes, a Nicolas Cage-starring oddity will break through and catch mainstream attention. That happened with Mandy and Pig, keeping Cage's cult bona fides alive even as he starred in bigger (but still weird) films with heftier marketing budgets…
The Directors of 'Elio' and 'KPop Demon Hunters' Talk About the Reality of Selling Diverse Movies
In a recent Hollywood Reporter animation roundtable, KPop Demon Hunters filmmaker Maggie Kang and Elio co-director Domee Shi (Turning Red) discussed pushing for representation in a time when studios seem to be playing it safe with sequels. It's a…
Movie Review: In 'Scarlet,' transplanting 'Hamlet' to an anime dreamworld
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