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There’s an alternate timeline where You People, the feature directorial debut of Kenya Barris (black-ish), is the next great romantic comedy. There’s another version where it’s a biting satire that delves into the strain parents can inflict on their grown children. There’s an even more distant option, where it’s a sharp critique on race…

The DC movie universe has been dying for a long time now. Ever since the original Justice League, it’s been clear things weren’t quite working, and that the overarching vision for the future of these franchises was never coming to pass. And while every movie since then has felt like it could easily be the ending of the cinematic universe or a…

Once upon a time, most of television was like Poker Face, the new Peacock drama created by Glass Onion’s Rian Johnson and starring Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne. It is a purely episodic, case-of-the-week show. Each episode sets up its own specific story, which Lyonne’s Charlie Cale finds a way to conclude by the end of the hour. There are…

M3GAN is now in your home.Image: UniversalWith Tuesday’s Oscar nominations celebrating the best in film from 2022, it might be easy to forget today is also the day you can celebrate not just the best film of 2023 so far, but maybe one of the best ever. I’m talking, of course, of M3GAN.Okay, fine, we’re joking about it being that good,but M3GAN…

It is always a time for celebration when we get a new Nicole Holofcener film, and that is especially true of her latest one that stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus. You Hurt My Feelings, which had its premiere Sunday night at Sundance, is the pair’s second collaboration, with 2013’s Enough Said co-starring the late James Gandolfini being the…

One of the most talked-about scenes at this year’s Sundance Film Festival unfolds in the opening sequence of “Fair Play,” a sexy thriller starring “Bridgerton” breakout Phoebe Dynevor and “Solo” actor Alden Ehrenreich. They play a newly engaged couple who keeps their relationship a secret because they work together at a cut-throat hedge…

Jurors for Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic Competition walked out of the premiere of “Magazine Dreams” on Friday night over an incident in which the festival failed to provide adequate captioning for deaf and hearing impaired audience members — including juror Marlee Matlin. Members of the dramatic jury — consisting of Jeremy O. Harris,…

She put a different kind of “F” in NFL. Rita Moreno admitted she “got turned on” while filming a locker room scene for her upcoming movie “80 for Brady.” “I simply want to say that my favorite scene in the movie takes place in the locker room where the guys are — you know, , all these guys,” the 91-year-old began on…

For more than a year, the actor Alec Baldwin has tried to defend himself against the suggestion that he bore responsibility for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of “Rust,” a low-budget western he was filming on the outskirts of Santa Fe, N.M.He told detectives he had been assured the gun he was rehearsing with that day did not…

This weekend, I succumbed to the pull of all the meme-y marketing and went to the theater to see the surprise horror-comedy hit M3gan. I generally enjoyed it—the jokes are funny, the jump scares effective, the robot-centric plot a rather smart addition to our fresh new wave of artificial intelligence anxiety. It isn’t the goriest or…