In early?2012, as the regime of Bashar al-Assad rained bombs on civilians in the Syrian city of Baba Amr, war photographer Paul Conroy found himself refusing to lea
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Maybe you're the type of person who sees a precocious, media-savvy teen phenom like chef Flynn McGarry on TV or the cover of a magazine and thinks Good for him? or
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs premieres Nov. 16 on Netflix. The Coen brothers began their career writing tight narratives that feverishly chugged along, pulling thei
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Friday, Nov. 16Believe it or not, Planes, Trains and Automobiles is one of the only authentic Thanksgiving movies, and the season would be poorer without it. A John
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It's been a hot minute since we've had a cute racism movie like Green Book, which wowed audiences at this year's Toronto Film Festival to the point where it won the
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Why make another movie about van Gogh? Julian Schnabel is addressing a packed theater at LACMA, in which audiences have just watched his new film, an impressionisti
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Yes, Steve McQueen's Widows is a heist film, set in Chicago, with a group of four women plotting and planning their way to a sweep of millions of dollars that w
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Outlaw King premieres on Netflix on Friday, Nov. 9. Look, if you're ride-or-die for sword-and-king entertainment, you owe it to yourself to check at least the first
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Here's something you probably didn't know. Ingmar Bergman screened Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor for his grandson at his theater on the island of Fårö but kept makin
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Friday, Nov. 9AFI Fest has descended upon our fair city, bringing international master filmmakers into conversation with emerging talents. Keep an eye on the World C
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For those of us who lived through the debacle of the Gary Hart sex scandal, when the favorite to become the Democrats' 1988 presidential nominee imploded after reve
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The most striking moment in Luis Ortega's often-striking El Angel comes early, during what most movies would make into a tense clockwork heist. I look like my mom w
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