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• ‘Parasite’: Bong Joon Ho on Making the Movie of the Year
  The South Korean filmmaker on the origins of his critically acclaimed hit about one rich and one poor family— and why he won't explain the meaning behind its title
• Watch Ethan Hawke Care for Abandoned Baby in New ‘Adopt a Highway’ Trailer
  Logan Marshall-Green-directed drama slated hit theaters, on-demand November 1st
• ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’: An Apocalyptic Party With Heaps of Undead
  This sequel to 'Zombieland' is hardly deathless comedy, but it sure is fun
• Daniel Kaluuya’s Production Company Tapped for New ‘Barney’ Movie
  Yes, that Barney
• 20 Best Horror-Movie Sequels
  From Frankenstein's bride to Freddy's later nightmares, these scary-movie franchise flicks kept the screams coming
• Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson Navigate a Devastating Divorce in ‘Marriage Story’ Trailer
  Noah Baumbach's latest film set to hit Netflix, select theaters this December
• ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ Is a Melted, Wannabe ‘Frozen’
  Angelina Jolie and her cheekbones return to the inert franchise to glare at Michelle Pfeiffer
• ‘The Apollo’: Pharrell, Paul McCartney Talk Legendary Harlem Venue in Doc Trailer
  Documentary premieres on HBO on November 6th
• ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Review: A Hit-or-Miss Hitler Comedy With a Heart
  Love it or hate it, Taika Waititi's singularly silly take on the WWII coming-of-age movie is damn near impossible to shake
• ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Musical Headed to Broadway
  Show based on Robin Williams classic will premiere in Seattle before arriving in New York next spring

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• Jane Fonda is no stranger to getting arrested. In fact, she's proud of it
  Jane Fonda has been outspoken about getting arrested multiple times. Here are some of her best soundbites about activism and resistance.
• Sam Waterston goes Jane Fonda: Both arrested in D.C. climate change protests
  Jane Fonda was detained again during a rally outside the U.S. Capitol Friday. Her "Grace & Frankie" costar Sam Waterston also was caught in the fray.
• China delays release of Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,' but why?
  Distribution of Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood" has been delayed indefinitely in China, but the reason is not entirely clear.
• How Angelina Jolie's daughter inspired the secret backstory of 'Maleficent: Mistress of Evil'
  "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" director Joachim Rønning and his team discuss the inspiration for Maleficent's dark fey world, and how backstory informed their designs
• Judy Garland's life was run by men. These newly unearthed recordings reveal how
  The new Showtime documentary "Sid & Judy" reveals never-before-heard private recordings from the couple's 13-year marriage.
• Indie Focus: Laughs, tears and satire in 'Jojo Rabbit'
  Another edition of your regular field guide to the world of movies in Los Angeles and beyond.
• Newsletter: Are Oscar voters ready for a Holocaust comedy?
  "Jojo Rabbit" uses Hitler for comic relief. Taika Waititi's movie won the audience prize at the Toronto Film Festival. Will Oscar voters get on board too?
• The son of famed director Preston Sturges searches for the dad he never knew
  Classic Hollywood: Tom Sturges discovered many things about his father, director Preston Sturges, while writing a book about him.
• Review: Lili Taylor, Uzo Aduba, Omar Epps and Rob Zombie headline streaming and VOD titles
  Reviews for 'Eli' with Lili Taylor, 'Miss Virginia' starring Uzo Aduba, Omar Epps in 'Trick,' Rob Zombie's '3 From Hell' and the New Orleans-set 'Gothic Harvest.'
• Review: A harrowing account of a mass shooting, 'Wallflower' fails to dive deeper
  Based on a real-life incident, "Wallflower" follows a man planning a mass shooting as he becomes involved with a group of rave attendees.
• Review: Persian mythology comes alive in ambitiously animated 'The Last Fiction'
  The forces of light and the forces of darkness do battle in ancient Persia in "The Last Fiction," an animated fable from Iran.
• Review: Unreleased 1938 silent sci-fi film 'As the Earth Turns' boasts analog ingenuity
  The world of the future is threatened by a catastrophic war in "As the Earth Turns," a previously unreleased silent sci-fi drama from 1938.
• Review: 'The Load' carries the weight of war on the road from Kosovo to Belgrade
  In Ognjen Glavonic's brooding thriller and debut fiction feature "The Load," an out-of-work husband and father takes a job driving a truck with a chained-up cargo.
• Review: Faced with cancer, French artist Prune Nourry makes art in documentary 'Serendipity'
  French-born multidisciplinary artist Prune Nourry documents her battle with breast cancer in "Serendipity."
• Review: Twin brothers Alex and Marcus Lewis tell their hauntingly strange story in 'Tell Me Who I Am'
  Ed Perkins' absorbing if incomplete documentary is a startling account of memory loss and trauma.
• Puzzle solved: Paul Dano cast as the Riddler in 'The Batman'
  "Escape at Dannemora" star Paul Dano has been cast as Edward Nashton, a.k.a. the Riddler, in Warner Bros.' "The Batman" starring Robert Pattinson.
• Review: 'Rezo' focuses on life of noted Georgian artist Gabriadze but shortchanges his work
  Leo Gabriadze uses a live-action/animation hybrid in the documentary "Rezo" to profile his father, Georgian writer, artist and puppeteer Rezo Gabriadze.
• Review: 'On the President's Orders' zeroes in on the Philippines' deadly war on drugs
  The documentary "On the President's Orders" chronicles Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's take-no-prisoners approach to the war on drugs.
• Review: 'Greener Grass' is one of the year's weirdest comedies
  Writer-director-stars Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe's feature debut "Greener Grass" was made to find a cult following; it deserves one.
• Review: 'The Elephant Queen' documentary delivers drama and emotion on African savanna
  Documentary "The Elephant Queen" provides a dramatic and moving look at a matriarchal pachyderm leading her herd on a journey across the African savannah.
• Review: Long-awaited Yves Saint Laurent documentary 'Celebration' provides rare access
  The long-awaited Yves Saint Laurent documentary "Celebration," follows the late years of the iconic fashion designer.
• Review: Playful, artfully done 'Cyrano, My Love' delivers romance with panache
  In "Cyrano, My Love," 19th century French playwright Edmond Rostand faces a host of raucous challenges as he struggles to write his famous comedy.
• The world's best animation lands in L.A. at the Animation Is Film Festival
  The Animation Is Film Festival showcases the breadth of international animation so L.A. audiences can experience the range the art form has to offer.
• Review: Grieving and forgiveness are focus of Charleston mass shooting documentary 'Emanuel'
  The documentary "Emanuel" examines the aftermath arising from the the massacre of nine African Americans by a young white supremacist at a church in Charleston, S.C.
• Review: A searing picture of the Syria crisis in documentary 'The Cave'
  "Last Men in Aleppo" director Feras Fayyad takes a compelling look inside an underground Syrian hospital under siege.
• Review: Will 'Zombieland: Double Tap' be the nail in the coffin of the undead genre?
  Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin and Emma Stone reunite in "Zombieland: Double Tap," a sequel to 2009 horror comedy.
• Critic's Choice: If you liked 'Parasite,' don't miss 'The Housemaid'
  Kim Ki-young's 1960 masterpiece, regarded as one of the greatest Korean films, will screen Oct. 20 at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown.
• Review: Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe make a mad and mesmerizing duo in 'The Lighthouse'
  The latest thriller written and directed by Robert Eggers ("The Witch") is a stormy, magnificently crafted 19th century gothic.
• Fight breaks out during 'Joker' screening at Burbank movie theater
  Fight breaks out during "Joker" screening at Burbank movie theater
• Gloria Allred says her New York Times critics 'don't understand the practice of law'
  Gloria Allred defends the use of secret settlements in sexual harassment cases following an awards season screening for the upcoming film "Bombshell," about sexual harassment at Fox News.
• Scotty Bowers, sexual matchmaker in the golden age of Hollywood, dies
  Cary Grant, J. Edgar Hoover and Katharine Hepburn were all clients of Hollywood's matchmaker. Or so he claimed.
• Zoë Kravitz is 'Batman's' new Catwoman, and Aquaman is 'stoked'
  Jason "Aquaman" Momoa is congratulating stepdaughter Zoë Kravitz on landing the role of Catwoman in "The Batman" with Robert Pattinson.
• Review: Taika Waititi's uneven satire 'Jojo Rabbit' is at its best making Nazis, and Hitler, the joke
  Writer-director-star Taika Waititi's satire is about a boy with Hitler for an imaginary friend who needs all the help he can get.
• Review: Angelina Jolie and Michelle Pfeiffer lock horns in 'Mistress of Evil,' an enjoyably deranged 'Maleficent' sequel
  Angelina Jolie returns as the not-so-evil fairy and takes on Michelle Pfeiffer in "Mistress of Evil," a messy but enjoyably unhinged sequel to Disney's 2014 "Maleficent."
• Classic movies in L.A. this week: 'The Sixth Sense' and more
  Classic movies, film festivals, etc., in L.A. for Oct. 13-20 include an outdoor screening of "The Sixth Sense" and the Taiwan Biennial Film Festival
• 'Joker' maintains box office dominance while 'The Addams Family' opens strong
  Joker stays on top while "Addams Family" and "Parasite"open strong. Will Smith sci-fi thriller "Gemini Man" and Adam Devine comedy "Jexi" fall short.
• Movies opening in L.A. this week: 'Maleficent,' 'Zombieland' sequels and more
  Movies opening in L.A. for Oct. 13-20 include the sequels "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" starring Angelina Jolie and "Zombieland: Double Tap"
• Ravenous alligators are loose in a flooded basement in 'Crawl': What could possibly go wrong?
  New on Blu-ray "Crawl" (Paramount DVD, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99; also available on VOD) One of the more entertaining and deftly plotted monster movies of recent years, the thriller stars Kaya Scodelario as Haley, a Florida college kid who returns to her coastal hometown during a Category 5 hurricane to check on her estranged father (Barry Pepper) and soon finds herself trapped in a rapidly flooding basement populated by ravenous giant alligators.
• Hot Property: Mega-producer Joel Silver eyes a record-breaking sale in Brentwood
  Hollywood producer Joel Silver is seeking $77.5 million for his Mexican modernist showplace in Brentwood. Also: Heather Graham is looking to sell her longtime home; RuPaul buys a new spot; and a tech titan has made a big splash in Newport Beach.
• Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for 'Jackie Brown,' dies at 78
  Robert Forster, the character actor who played bail bondsman Max Cherry in 'Jackie Brown' and appears in the 'Breaking Bad' movie, has died.
• Why everyone is talking about Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite': A thriller rooted in class conflict
  'Parasite' director Bong Joon Ho on the acclaim, awards and expectations that have people buzzing about his twisty, masterful new thriller.
• Indie Focus: Get attached to 'Parasite'
  Another edition of your regular field guide to the world of movies in Los Angeles and beyond.
• Kevin Hart crash report reveals reckless driving, no seat belts
  A new report from the California Highway Patrol has unveiled further details about the Mulholland car crash that left comedian Kevin Hart with major injuries.
• Newsletter: The year's best movie opens today
  Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite" upends expectations at every turn. It's a masterpiece.
• Review: Instead of a cautionary tale, 'Jexi' may drive you deeper into cellphone addiction
  'Jexi' stars Adam DeVine as a pop culture blogger who finds his life being slowly taken over by the AI-driven digital assistant on his smartphone.
• Review: Four very different horror films arrive in time for Halloween
  Reviews for 'Mary,' starring Gary Oldman and Emily Mortimer, 'Along Came the Devil 2,' 'Beloved Beast,' 'Holiday Hell.'
• Painful truths about American torture in 'The Report'
  "The Report" filmmakers chronicle a Dianne Feinstein staffer's efforts to systematically debunk the CIA's case for using torture during the War on Terror
• Review: Zoe Kanters elevates Upper Peninsula of Michigan tale 'Up There'
  In "Up There," a struggling journalist on assignment in Michigan's Upper Peninsula gets a lead on a possibly career-changing story.
• Review: 'High Strung Free Dance' paints Broadway as the Straight, Bland Way
  Michael Damian's "High Strung Free Dance" follows a young choreographer who hires a dancer and a pianist for a new Broadway show.
• Review: 'The Cotton Club Encore' elevates 1984 Francis Ford Coppola film from dud to misfire
  Recut version of Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 musical drama "The Cotton Club" set in 1930s Harlem reclaims the film from dud to what-might-have-been.
• Review: Animated 'The Addams Family' stays true to creepy, kooky form
  "The Addams Family," cartoonist Charles Addams' creepy, kooky and altogether spooky clan returns to the big screen in animated form.
• Review: 'Liberty: Mother of Exiles' grandly pays tribute to the symbolic statue and immigrants
  Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's documentary "Liberty: Mother of Exiles" explores the creation of the Statue of Liberty and its meaning to immigrants from around the world.
• Review: 'The King' makes Timothée Chalamet the ruler of all he surveys
  Timothée Chalamet stars opposite Robert Pattinson and Joel Edgerton in director David Michôd's shrewd re-imagining of the Prince Hal/Falstaff dynamic.
• Critic's Choice: Music Box Steps Day celebrates Laurel & Hardy
  A celebration of the classic short "The Music Box" and its Silver Lake location where it was shot.
• Review: Documentary 'Gift' provides a sumptuous if trivial probe of artists and creativity
  Documentary by Robin McKenna about gift-based cultures, inspired by the Lewis Hyde book "The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World."
• Spooky, kooky — and beloved: Why they can't kill the 'Addams Family'
  The new animated "Addams Family" brings the characters back to their cartoon roots.
• Review: 'Doubting Thomas' takes on racial biases through didactic oversimplification
  "Doubting Thomas" delivers a Lifetime-like take on how the birth of a black child to white parents tears a family apart.
• Review: Psychology, the supernatural and Shane Carruth meet in incoherent 'The Dead Center'
  "The Dead Center" focuses on Shane Carruth's troubled psychiatrist and his sessions with an amnesiac patient that lead to darker revelations.
• Review: Two Will Smiths don't double the pleasure in the ill-conceived 'Gemini Man'
  Will Smith plays not one but two assassins in soggy misfire "Gemini Man," from director Ang Lee.
• Review: Priyanka Chopra Jonas stars in 'The Sky Is Pink,' a stirring sick-teen melodrama
  "The Sky Is Pink," starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas, is a sick-teen melodrama as a couple's love story is seen through the eyes of their teenage daughter.
• How George Harrison rescued 'Monty Python's Life of Brian' and launched a film producing career
  A seven-day film festival stretching Oct. 10-20 in Beverly Hills celebrates the legacy of HandMade Films, the English company ex-Beatle George Harrison created initially to help his pals in Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• Not just for Halloween or Instagram: 'I Like Scary Movies' is horror as art installation
  Inside the art installation "I Like Scary Movies," guests can add themselves into scenes from horror movies including "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "Friday the 13th," "Beetlejuice," "It" and "The Shining."
• Despite strong cast, French comedy drama 'Sink or Swim' mainly does the former
  French comedy-drama "Sink or Swim" stars Mathieu Amalric as a middle-aged man who seeks redemption through synchronized swimming.
• Review: 'Albanian Gangster' delivers a gritty but clichéd look at immigrant thug life
  John Rezaj energizes "Albanian Gangster" as a violent criminal makes his appointed rounds.
• Review: Roger Avary's crime retread 'Lucky Day' suffers from pulp affliction
  Roger Avary's "Lucky Day," about a recently paroled safecracker with a hired killer on his tail, is stuck in the writer-director's "Pulp Fiction" past.
• The makers of 'The Elephant Queen' got down in the mud and up in the air
  Filmmakers Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble spent four years in a national park in Kenya to document elephants, which they say are disappearing at an alarming rate.
• Review: 'A German Youth' documents the radicalization of the Baader Meinhof Gang
  The documentary "A German Youth," directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot, is a detailed look at violent German radicalism of the Baader Meinhof Gang.
• Review: Joseph Losey's 1976 classic 'Mr. Klein' starring Alain Delon still enthralls
  In Joseph Losey's 1976 classic "Mr. Klein," French star Alain Delon is at his best as an art dealer who takes advantage of Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Paris.
• Review: Thrilling and devastating, 'Parasite' is one of the year's very best movies
  Two very different families collide in Bong Joon Ho's masterful thriller, which will represent South Korea in this year's Oscar race.
• The legacy of 'Natural Born Killers': Oliver Stone and Juliette Lewis on ultra-violence and media hysteria
  Ahead of a 25th anniversary screening, filmmaker Oliver Stone and actress Juliette Lewis look back on their controversial tale of murder, mayhem and the media.
• Review: 'On Cinema' spinoff 'Mister America' is strictly for the initiated
  The "On Cinema" team goes to the movies with "Mister America," a mockumentary about a filmmaker following a shady, quasi-Trumpian businessman running for San Bernardino district attorney.
• Review: Lupita Nyong'o in 'Little Monsters' is the zombie-fighting kindergarten teacher we need
  Lupita Nyong'o and Josh Gad breathe life into 'Little Monsters' as a schoolteacher and the star of a children's show fighting zombies.
• Commentary: What works, what's missing and what needs fixing at Disney's Galaxy's Edge
  A progress report on Disney's largest single land expansion after a summer of sparse crowds at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
• Eat the rich: Why movies are tackling income inequality and class warfare
  In a range of fall releases, including "Joker," "Parasite," "Hustlers" and "Knives Out," major movies take on issues of class and income inequality
• Rip Taylor dies; game show personality hosted 'The $1.98 Beauty Show'
  Comic and game show personality Rip Taylor died at his home Sunday at the age of 84.
• Martin Scorsese declares Marvel 'not cinema,' and Samuel L. Jackson's not having it
  Martin Scorsese does not consider the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be cinema. Samuel L. Jackson and others beg to differ.
• Box office: 'Joker' surpasses all expectations, posting best-ever October debut
  Warner Bros.' "Joker," the highly anticipated and highly controversial R-rated origin story, broke October records with $ 93.5 million at the box office.
• Classic movies in L.A. this week: 'Ghostbusters' and more
  Classic movies playing in L.A. for Oct. 6-13 include "Ghostbusters," "Halloween," "Dracula" and "Frankenstein"
• Movies opening in L.A. this week: A 'Breaking Bad' movie and more
  Movies opening in L.A. this week include "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie," "The Addams Family" and Will Smith in "Gemini Man"
• Ari Aster follows up 'Hereditary' with the disturbing, darkly funny 'Midsommar'
  `'Midsommar' depicts one wacky vacation on the Swedish coast. Its cockeyed and freaky and gory.
• 'Joker' ending explained: Director Todd Phillips on fan theories and open questions
  As the controversial new comic-book film 'Joker' hits theaters, director Todd Phillips delves into some of the film's ambiguities.
• Indie Focus: Reuniting with 'Pain and Glory'
  Another edition of your regular field guide to the world of movies in Los Angeles and beyond.
• Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodóvar's 'Pain and Glory' marks a deeply personal reunion
  With 'Pain and Glory,' Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodóvar have a collaboration that now stretches back nearly 40 years.
• The true story behind 'Judy' from the woman who worked with Judy Garland
  "Judy" consultant Rosalyn Wilder met many celebrities during her tenure at London's Talk of the Town, but everything always seems to come back to Judy Garland.
• Is 'Joker' a dangerous movie? Our critics have it out
  "Joker" is making headlines for its violence and is drawing divisive reviews. Times writers debate whether the dark origin story deserves all the controversy and anxiety surrounding it.
• TCM host Robert Osborne is remembered with a classic film celebration
  Beloved TCM host Robert Osborne championed classic Hollywood films. So its fitting there's a celebration of them in his name
• Newsletter: Oscar prospects for 'Joker' nothing to laugh about
  "Joker" arrives (finally) and the reviews aren't kind. Plus Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" wows at its New York Film Festival premiere.
• Credible threat targeting 'Joker' screening forces Huntington Beach theater to close
  Police did not describe the nature of the threat or how it was reported, but Century Huntington Beach and XD theater closed late Thursday afternoon for all showings.
• How Time's Up is training a troop of diverse Hollywood executives
  Time's Up aims to make the entertainment industry more inclusive by mentoring a diverse group of assistants as they work to transition into junior executives.
• Review: On Netflix, 'In the Tall Grass' reveals the degree to which weeds are scary
  The creeping terror of Stephen King and Joe Hill's novella "In the Tall Grass" wears thin in a Netflix adaptation.
• Robert De Niro sued his ex-assistant. Now she's suing him. Read what they're alleging
  Robert De Niro and former employee Graham Chase Robinson are embroiled in dueling lawsuits. We break down the he said/she said nature of their complaints.
• James Franco's former students sue, alleging sexual exploitation and fraud at his defunct school
  James Franco's attorney says the actor will fight a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday by two women who studied at his Studio 4 acting school.
• Clint Eastwood's 'Richard Jewell' trailer traces Atlanta bombing
  "Richard Jewell," Clint Eastwood's new film set for Dec. 13, stars Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm and Olivia Wilde.
• Review: 'Midnight Traveler' uses cellphone cameras to make the refugee crisis personal and real
  Hassan Fazili's Sundance prize-winning documentary uses a family's cellphone footage to personalize what it feels like to be a part of the refugee crisis.
• Review: What made Ridley Scott's 'Alien' a sci-fi game changer? The documentary 'Memory' has the answer
  Alexandre O. Philippe's documentary examines the enduring mythologies behind Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi/horror masterpiece "Alien."
• Review: A funny, intense 'Harpoon,' Aaron Paul, a terrifying 'Clown' and more
  Reviews for 'Cuck,' 'Harpoon,' 'The Parts You Lose,' 'Semper Fi,' 'Wrinkles the Clown.'
• The film academy museum has a new, yet familiar, director
  Filling a vacancy at the head of its long-awaited museum, the motion picture academy names Bill Kramer the new director.
• On 'Mean Girls' Day, Lindsay Lohan and her castmates play nice
  It's Oct. 3, meaning it's "Mean Girls" Day, and the cast of the 2004 comedy have partnered with the Thirst Project to build a fresh water well in Uganda.
• Review: 'Scared of Revolution's' profile of the Last Poets' Umar Bin Hassan emphasizes mood
  In his feature documentary debut, "Scared of Revolution," Daniel Krikke crafts a melancholy portrait of one of the Last Poet's most troubled members, Umar Bin Hassan.
• Review: Natalie Portman stays on course in the fascinatingly messy 'Lucy in the Sky'
  Natalie Portman stars in "Lucy in the Sky," Noah Hawley's tempestuous drama about an astronaut who has trouble readjusting to life on Earth.

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• What Can Robert Pattinson Do to Keep You Guessing?
  After “Twilight,” the actor reinvented himself in art-house films. How will he follow “The Lighthouse” and his wildest role so far? With yet another swerve: He’s playing Batman.
• ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ Review: Sleep, Sleep, My Lovelies
  Angelina Jolie returns as the powerful, dangerous fairy in this tame, disappointing follow-up to the 2014 revisionist hit.
• When We Laugh at Nazis, Maybe the Joke’s on Us
  More than a half-century after Mel Brooks made “The Producers,” mocking Hitler isn’t what it used to be.
• The Movie Is Opening Wide. The Screen Is Changing Shape.
  Filmmakers this season are playing with aspect ratios (the dimensions of the frame), sometimes from one scene to the next. You’ll see it in “The Laundromat,” “The Lighthouse” and others.
• ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Review: Back to Crack Wise and Crush Skulls
  After 10 years, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg and Abigail Breslin are still murdering the pop-culture clichés.
• ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men
  Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe play antagonistic lighthouse keepers in a twisted tale of men and loneliness.
• The Many Shades of Wednesday Addams
  With a new “Addams Family” movie in theaters, a look back at the portrayal of one of its most popular family members over the years.
• Why the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys Are Not Ready for They and Them
  Asia Kate Dillon of “Billions” is calling on the Television Academy to scrap gendered categories. But the organization and others have no plans for change, for now.
• ‘Parasite’ and South Korea’s Income Gap: Call It Dirt Spoon Cinema
  Bong Joon Ho’s latest film joins a growing list of movies criticizing South Korean inequality — a problem so pervasive it has given birth to its own slang.
• Filmmakers in Gritty Tokyo, Not a Cherry Blossom in Sight
  “Shitamachi,” a new Film Forum retrospective, offers a primer on the geography and rich culture of the Japanese capital’s working-class neighborhoods.
• Netflix’s ‘The Laundromat’ Goes On as Court Transfers Lawsuit
  A judge on Thursday ruled that a defamation lawsuit filed by the firm at the center of the Panama Papers should be heard in the Los Angeles area.
• There Are Worse Roles Than the Seducer. Ask Alexander Skarsgard.
  The actor talks about his latest turn as a compelling sociopath in “The Kill Team” and his Emmy-winning role in “Big Little Lies.”
• The Week in Arts: Alicia Keys, Mark Morris and an Expanded MoMA
  The singer headlines Tidal’s benefit concert in Brooklyn; and the Museum of Modern Art debuts its larger, more diverse collection.
• ‘Wounds’ Review: He Sees Dead People
  Armie Hammer plays a New Orleans bartender who quickly loses his friendly veneer when a spooky cellphone takes over his life.
• At MoMA, Home Movies That Reveal the World
  “Private Lives Public Spaces” is a thought-provoking show of neglected footage from the museum’s collection. With little background information available, you get to play historian and detective.
• 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend
  Our guide to film series and special screenings.
• HBO Max Will Stream ‘Spirited Away’ and 20 Other Studio Ghibli Films
  Start up the cat bus: For the first time, the films from the anime studio co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki will be available on a U.S. streaming service.
• ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Review: The Third Reich Wasn’t All Fun and Games
  Taika Waititi’s new film mixes farce, fantasy and drama in a Nazi-era coming-of-age story.
• ‘Kinetta’ Review: Cryptic Seeds of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Imagery
  Set around a Greek seaside resort, the now-acclaimed director’s 2005 movie bears inklings of ideas he would explore more fully later.
• Review: ‘Watchmen’ Is an Audacious Rorschach Test
  Damon Lindelof’s entertaining comic-book rethink takes on the Big Bad of white supremacy, explosively and sometimes unsteadily.
• ‘The Elephant Queen’ Review: Magnificent Images of Majestic Animals
  In footage shot over several years, this documentary follows a herd of elephants across the Kenyan savanna.
• ‘By the Grace of God’ Review: A Devastating Film About Survivors of Abuse
  The often irreverent French director François Ozon gets serious with a fact-based story about a group of men who were childhood victims of a pedophile priest.
• ‘Greener Grass’ Review: Life Is (Not) Beautiful
  Burying itself in weirdness and absurdity, this oddball movie follows two soccer moms through a surreally competitive suburban hell.
• ‘#Female Pleasure’ Review: Fighting the Patriarchy
  Barbara Miller’s humane profile of five women fighting back against sexism and misogyny is a hopeful, clearheaded confessional.
• ‘The Cave’ Review: Do No Harm, for as Long as Possible
  Feras Fayyad’s new documentary takes viewers into a subterranean Syrian hospital, as warplanes rumble overhead and bombings rattle the walls.
• ‘Serendipity’ Review: Turning a Cancer Diagnosis Into Art
  In her new documentary, the sculptor Prune Nourry explores how her work evolved after a breast cancer diagnosis.
• ‘Tell Me Who I Am’ Review: Twin Brothers Face an Awful Truth
  This documentary about siblings and irrevocable memory loss is sad and eerie to the extent that you wish it were fiction.
• ‘Cyrano, My Love’ Review: A Nose for Romance
  This superficial take on the writing and initial staging of “Cyrano de Bergerac” is a whirlwind of soapy declarations and backstage chaos.
• Overlooked No More: Lotte Reiniger, Animator Who Created Magic With Scissors and Paper
  Even before Disney, Reiniger told fanciful stories in animated films with her hand-cut paper silhouettes.
• Alex Wolff Acts, Writes and Directs. And He’s Only 21.
  His debut film, “The Cat and the Moon,” is loosely inspired by his parents.
• Firm at Center of Panama Papers Sues Netflix Over ‘The Laundromat’
  The law firm, Mossack Fonseca, objects to the way the film portrays them as villains at the center of a web of illegal offshore activities.
• Flannery O’Connor Documentary Wins New Award From Library of Congress
  The filmmakers Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco will be awarded the first Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, which comes with a $200,000 finishing grant.
• ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Musical Is Coming to Broadway
  The 1993 comedy has a Broadway-friendly family plot, but filling one of Robin Williams’s most memorable roles could be risky.
• ‘Watchmen’ Is Coming. (Actually, It Never Left.)
  A new adaptation of the graphic novel “Watchmen” is coming to HBO. The original changed superhero tales — and pop culture at large — forever.
• Who Will Watch ‘Watchmen’?
  Damon Lindelof, creator of the HBO comic adaptation, and Regina King, its star, discuss why the show is a Rorschach test of its own.
• Cuba Gooding Jr. Is Accused of Unwanted Sexual Touching by 14 Women
  The actor is facing charges of touching one woman’s breast and another’s buttocks, and prosecutors said 12 others have come forward with allegations.
• Review: Two Films From Rosine Mbakam Explore West African Women’s Identity
  ‘The Two Faces of a Bamileke Woman’ and ‘Chez Jolie Coiffure’ offer Cameroonian women the chance to speak for themselves.
• ‘Stuffed’ Review: There’s Artistry in That Plumage
  This documentary makes the case for taxidermy as a cuddly profession.
• DreamWorks Film ‘Abominable’ Is Pulled by Vietnam Over Chinese Map Scene
  The animated movie briefly shows China’s disputed “nine-dash line” in the South China Sea, which includes territory claimed by Vietnam and other countries.
• What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Arrow’ and ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’
  The Green Arrow prepares to hang up his bow in his series’s final season, and John Cameron Mitchell struts his stuff in “Hedwig.”
• AMC Theater Chain Gets Into Streaming With On-Demand Movies
  AMC Entertainment dominates the cineplex business. Now it also wants to be a major player in home viewing.
• ‘Addams Family’ Climbs Box Office, but ‘Joker’ Stays on Top
  “Joker” left room for the arrival of another, less violently somber movie (with similarly strong Halloween costume potential): “The Addams Family.”
• Lights. Camera. Prayer. A Mini-Hollywood Grows in Utah.
  Movies made by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are an important part of a film and TV ecosystem in northern Utah. And there’s not an R-rating in sight.
• Bob Weinstein, Brother of Disgraced Mogul, Starts New Production Company
  The younger brother of Harvey Weinstein is returning to Hollywood, a move that brought condemnation from the advocacy group Time’s Up.
• What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Mighty Boosh’ and ‘Meeting Gorbachev’
  Revisit the absurdist comedy of Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, and catch Werner Herzog’s conversations with the former Russian leader.

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• How Angelina Jolie's Dark Fairy Look Came Together In Disney's 'Maleficent'
  Disney's dark fairy Maleficent returns to the theaters with Angelina Jolie reprising her role as the villainous godmother of Sleeping Beauty. The artists behind her look explain how it came together.
• Remembering 'Jackie Brown' Actor Robert Forster
  The Oscar-nominated actor, who died Oct. 11, often played police officers and private eyes. "These guys are straight shooters," he said in 2003. "I take the mantle of that and pretend it's me."
• Satirical Nazi Film 'Jojo Rabbit' Treats The Viewer Like A Child
  For all its good intentions, Jojo Rabbit comes across painfully one-note as comedy, bogus and manipulative as drama and with an archly whimsical visual style that feels like imitation Wes Anderson.
• Director Taika Waititi On 'Jojo Rabbit'
  The new film by director Taika Waititi is a scathing satire of Nazi Germany. NPR's Noel King spoke to him about the film Jojo Rabbit.
• Hell Is Other Popeyes: Gorgeous 'The Lighthouse' Sails Into Maritime Madness
  An old salt (Willem Dafoe) and his young assistant (Robert Pattinson) descend into a surreal maelstrom of myth and madness as they maintain a lonely lighthouse.
• A Powerful Tale Of Abuse Survivors Finding Their Voice 'By The Grace Of God'
  A director known for lurid psychodrama tackles a French priest-abuse scandal with sensitivity, restraint — and a robust sense of urgency.
• Suburban Satire 'Greener Grass' Offers Surreal, Pastel-Hued Truths
  The smiles are all forced and the outfits color-coded in this tale of female one-up-manship. "It's gloriously nonsensical," says our critic, "and yet it reverberates with eerie truth."
• 'Zombieland: Double Tap' Taps Into Nostalgia For Its Predecessor
  The in-jokes and callbacks come at you faster than the zombies do in this agreeable return to the world of the 2009 horror-comedy.
• 'Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil' Clips Angelina Jolie's Wings
  This "extremely weird" sequel to the 2014 film that riffed on Disney's Sleeping Beauty shunts its main character off-screen for most of its running time, in favor of CGI spectacle.
• 'Jojo Rabbit,' Your Reich Is Calling
  Taika Waititi writes, directs — and stars, as a 10-year-old boy's imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler — in this very silly film about a very serious subject.
• Vietnam Bans Animated 'Abominable' Over Controversial Map Of South China Sea
  Vietnam and other countries bordering the South China Sea are angry about a map shown in the new movie Abominable. The movie is a co-production of DreamWorks and a Chinese animation studio.
• Filmmaker Taika Waititi On Satirizing Nazis In 'Jojo Rabbit'
  Jojo Rabbit centers on a 10-year-old boy who joins the Hitler Youth. Writer and director Waititi, who is from New Zealand, is half-Jewish and half-Maori. He plays the boy's imaginary friend, Hitler.
• How Julie Andrews Made Herself At 'Home' In Hollywood
  In a new memoir, the actress writes about the films and creative collaborations — like Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music — that marked the height of her fame.
• Movie Review: 'Parasite'
  Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho has made a South Korean social satire that's also a genre-bending Palme d'Or-winning thriller of class struggle.
• Documentary Reveals The Depth And Complexity Of Opera Star Maria Callas
  Maria by Callas weaves together performance clips, home movies, interviews and poignant diary excepts to present an intimate portrait of the singer in her own words.