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2023 Oscars Preview And What's Making Us Happy
If you're entering an Oscar pool, or if you're just figuring out which Oscar-nominated movies are worth your time, we're here to help. Today we're of…
3 years, 1 month ago
2023 Oscars Guide: International Feature
The five films nominated for international feature at this year's Oscars wrangle with some tough ideas and issues. There's the brutality of war, the …
3 years, 1 month ago
2023 Oscars Guide: Animated Feature
This year's Oscar nominees for best animated feature don't have a lot in common besides animation. You've got a dark vision of Pinocchio, a red panda…
3 years, 1 month ago
2023 Oscars Guide: Documentary Feature
This year's Oscar nominees for documentary feature include films about two brothers who rescue birds, a man who takes on Vladimir Putin, and a couple…
3 years, 1 month ago
2023 Oscars Guide: Original Song
The Oscar nominees for best original song can be anything from soaring ballads over the credits to toe-tappers that ground musical numbers. This year…
3 years, 1 month ago
Creed III And What's Making Us Happy
In Creed III, Michael B. Jordan is back as Adonis "Donnie" Creed, the scrappy underdog-turned-world champion boxer from the Rocky franchise. Adonis h…
3 years, 1 month ago
Return To Seoul
In the moving film Return To Seoul, a young woman named Freddie visits South Korea for the first time since her birth, when she was adopted by a Fren…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Consultant
In the darkly satiric, highly bingeable Amazon Prime series The Consultant, Christoph Waltz plays a mysterious businessman who takes over a videogame…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Forty-Year-Old Version
In the wonderful film The Forty-Year-Old Version, playwright Radha Blank plays a variation on herself. Frustrated by a stall in her theater career, R…
3 years, 2 months ago
The New Black Film Canon
NPR has teamed up with Slate to expand the Black Film Canon, a collection of the best films directed by Black filmmakers. The intent is to challenge …
3 years, 2 months ago