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One night shortly before the Oscars ceremony, my boyfriend decided to catch up on “Flow,” the animated film from Latvia that would go on to win best animated feature. When I returned home from dinner, I found that the film had also captured the attention of another viewer — my dog Daisy, a corgi mix. … Read more

‘Coconut Head Generation’ Stream it on Ovid. A room, a dusty projector and a small screen mounted on the wall. That’s pretty much all there is to the Thursday Film Series, a movie club started by students at the prestigious University of Ibadan in Nigeria, which forms the focus of Alain Kassanda’s documentary. But from … Read more

During his acceptance speech at the Oscars on Sunday, the Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis (“Away”) spoke about overcoming our differences, a central theme of his movie and a lesson that feels more urgent today than ever. “Flow,” which won best animated feature film, is the dreamy tale of a black cat with huge, expressive yellow … Read more

There’s a temptation, when making a documentary about some obviously retrograde practice from the past, for filmmakers to treat their subject like something to gawk at. Can you believe how backward earlier generations were? Let’s all point and stare and wince. “Housewife of the Year” (in theaters), directed by Ciaran Cassidy, could very easily have … Read more

ADLER What I learned immediately is if the critics didn’t like you, you didn’t have long. So at that point, not to spoil any of the excitement of coming out of London and L.A., and about the release of the film, I wanted to close as quickly as possible. If I regret it, I only … Read more

‘Mickey 17’ The latest from Bong Joon Ho follows Mickey (Robert Pattinson) on a dangerous space expedition as he repeatedly dies and is resurrected via cloning and develops a relationship with a fellow crew member, Nasha (Naomi Ackie). From our review: Like the working-class crew of the extraterrestrial tugboat in Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” Mickey, Nasha … Read more

In “Mickey 17” (in theaters) Robert Pattinson plays a former pastry chef and an amiable dimwit who applies for a lousy, inevitably lethal job on a contaminated ice planet. As an Expendable, Mickey goes into the worst sorts of situations, dies in some horrible way — you know, for the mission — then gets cloned … Read more

Most likely you know the outline of the case: Charles Manson, the failed musician and wild-eyed hippie, ordered his “family” — drug-addled runaways, mostly, who had been living with him at a ranch full of old movie sets — to carry out a series of gruesome murders on the evenings of Aug. 8 and 9, … Read more

Roundabout Theater Company, the largest nonprofit on Broadway, will present three very different classics next season: a Greek tragedy, a drawing-room comedy and a monster musical. The English writer and director Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a new version of the seminal Sophocles drama about a king who inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother, will … Read more

Shula, the watchful heroine of the quietly stirring “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” doesn’t seem cut out for bold gestures. She’s reserved, at times to the point of standoffishness and given to introspective silences. There’s admirable grace to her composure but also an air of practiced caution. The only really obvious thing about Shula is … Read more