Bob Mondello

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There is no excuse to let 'Anatomy of a Fall' fall through the cracks

Thursday, October 12, 2023

A novelist is accused of her husband's murder, and the only witness is their blind son in Justine Triet's Palme d'Or-winning film, Anatomy of a Fall.

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'Carterland' puts a positive spin on an oft-disparaged presidency

Monday, October 02, 2023

Carterland depicts the one-term presidency of Jimmy Carter as an expansive and largely successful exercise in problem-solving.

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Michael Gambon, Dumbledore in 'Harry Potter' films, dies at 82

Thursday, September 28, 2023

British-Irish actor Sir Michael Gambon has died at the age of 82. He was best known for his role as Dumbledore in the blockbuster franchise 'Harry Potter.'

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

Friday, September 22, 2023

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

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

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.

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

Tuesday, 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.

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Craig Gillespie's 'Dumb Money' tells the story of the GameStop short squeeze

Thursday, September 14, 2023

Craig Gillespie's dramedy Dumb Money chronicles the 2021 Wall Street phenomenon known as the GameStop short squeeze, which pitted small investors against major hedge funds.

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Some of the movies Hollywood has in store this fall

Monday, September 04, 2023

Even in a season strained by writers' and actors' strikes, Hollywood has a lot on its schedule before Thanksgiving.

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Ice cream in Buenos Aires is more than a treat, it's a work of art

Monday, September 04, 2023

Everyone in Buenos Aires seems to be a fierce partisan when it comes to: soccer, cafes and ice cream parlors. The ice cream there is not just delicious — it's gorgeous.

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Review: 'Scrapper' is a sort of adolescent coming-of-age story turned upside down

Thursday, August 24, 2023

In Scrapper, a plucky 12-year-old girl is living on her own, making rent money by stealing bicycles.

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Indie sci-fi films 'The Pod Generation' and 'Jules' are grounded and intimate

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Science fiction often goes epic, but this week brings low-budget, low-key, indie sci-fi: The Pod Generation, which re-imagines pregnancy and Jules, about the alien sitting on Ben Kingsley's sofa.

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2 new movies center on filmmakers who lead disruptive, messy lives

Friday, August 04, 2023

A pair of new indie films — Ira Sachs' Passages and Randall Park's Shortcomings — center their stories on filmmakers who espouse rigorous standards but lead messy lives.

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'Open the pod bay door, HAL' — here's how AI became a movie villain

Monday, July 31, 2023

When Tom Cruise battles a sentient artificial intelligence "Entity" in the latest Mission Impossible film, he joins a long list of heroes who've had to fight a malevolent machine onscreen.

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Barbenheimer's rising tide seemed to lift all boats at the box office

Monday, July 24, 2023

The films Barbie and Oppenheimer blew past predictions to spark the fourth biggest box office weekend in Hollywood history. What does their success say about the state of the movie business?

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Nolan's thriller 'Oppenheimer' is a monument to science and the arrogance of genius

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Christopher Nolan's historical thriller Oppenheimer — based on American Prometheus, the biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer — chronicles the creation of the atomic bomb.

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The legacy of Ginger Rogers, who would have turned 112 this week

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Ginger Rogers would have turned 112 this week. We remember her and her collaboration with her most famous partner, Fred Astaire.

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Truth and laughs run deep in new mockumentary 'Theater Camp'

Friday, July 14, 2023

Broadway's Ben Platt heads the eccentric staff of a rundown camp for middle school thespians in the Sundance hit mockumentary Theater Camp.

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'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning' is impossibly full of surprises

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Tom Cruise, still doing his own stunts, which this time include riding a motorcycle off a cliff in the Alps, returns as Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1.

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'Biosphere' takes a mostly comic look at a friendship between the last men on Earth

Friday, July 07, 2023

In Mel Eslyn's film Biosphere, the last two men on Earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity... or play video games.

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'Dial of Destiny' proves Indiana Jones' days of derring-do aren't quite derring-done

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Harrison Ford — who's about to turn 81 — stars again as the intrepid archaeologist in this fifth (and possibly final) adventure. It's directed not by Steven Spielberg, but by James Mangold.

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