In the Movies Headlines

George Clooney's kids don't care about his success (and that's a good thing)
Thu Dec 04 12:03 pm
In Jay Kelly, Clooney plays an emotionally stunted movie star struggling with work and family life. He can relate: "We're all balancing it. We're never getting it perfect."
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Filmmaker Jafar Panahi is sentenced again in Iran as Hollywood's awards season starts
Wed Dec 03 5:43 pm
Panahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies.
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Remembering Dorothy Vogel, who collected art with her husband on civil servant salaries
Tue Dec 02 6:06 pm
Librarian Dorothy Vogel, who, with her late husband Herb, amassed a priceless collection of contemporary art in their one bedroom apartment, died on Nov. 10.
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Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on balancing work and family — when work is a war zone
Tue Dec 02 2:16 pm
The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist has been kidnapped and thrown from a car. Still, Addario says, parenting two young kids can be more challenging than war reporting.
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'I'm telling a silent story': Paul Tazewell on 'Wicked' and the magic of costume design
Mon Dec 01 3:23 pm
The Oscar-winning costume designer has been enchanted by Oz and Munchkinland for most of his life. He created more than 1,000 looks for Wicked: For Good — including Elphaba's "sex cardigan."
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Your 2025 holiday movie guide: Time travel, pickleball and fa-la-la-la franchises
Mon Dec 01 6:00 am
We're taking stock of this year's notable holiday movies, with titles including such gems as Oy to the World!, Christmas at the Catnip Cafe, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, and A Pickleball Christmas.
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Why some movies grow stale
Sun Nov 30 5:13 pm
NPR's Marc Rivers and Mallory Yu revisit the movies that haven't aged well and explore why they fall apart on rewatch.
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'Left-Handed Girl' takes on quiet shame across generations in Taipei
Fri Nov 28 6:00 am
Shih-Ching Tsou has collaborated with filmmaker Sean Baker for years. Tsou's solo directorial debut uses Taipei as its canvas to tell a story about women making ends meet in the city.
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This new movie about Russia's independent journalists is harrowing, but not hopeless
Fri Nov 28 5:00 am
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow follows Russian journalists who report on the country's abuses. Reviewer Justin Chang calls it one of the most engrossing films he's seen all year.
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There's reason to be optimistic about the the movies coming this holiday season
Thu Nov 27 4:03 pm
A selective preview of the comedies, action adventures, dramas and awards contenders Hollywood has in store between Thanksgiving and the end of 2025.
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