Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Far-Out Mystical Magic Tour
This film is so giddily enjoyable and visually transfixing, you might forget that it’s part of Marvel’s strategy for world domination.
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CreditBen Rothstein/Focus Features Review: They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back.
Jeff Nichols’s “Loving” is a fictionalization of the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple whose civil rights case went to the Supreme Court.
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CreditAngela Lewis for The New York Times Octavia Spencer Cracks a Few Hollywood Equations
Ms. Spencer has built a sturdy résumé as a character actor, but she is moving past “nurse face” roles to play a mathematician in “Hidden Figures.”
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CreditJonathan Olley/Lucasfilm How Female Fans Made ‘Star Wars’ Their Own
Podcasts and websites are part of a universe of fandom that revolves around women.
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CreditDreamWorks Animation/Twentieth Century Fox Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn Discuss a Scene From ‘Trolls’
The filmmakers narrate a sequence that involves the song “Get Back Up Again,” performed by Anna Kendrick.
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CreditJaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros. In ‘Beasts,’ Rowling Cloaks Politics in a Tale of Magic
The writer has spoken out against “Brexit” and Trump, and her “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” script imagines parallels in 1920s New York.
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CreditMark Rogers/Lionsgate Review: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Has Guts and Glory. But Where’s the Gun?
Mel Gibson’s new film tells the true story of Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who refused to bear arms but still won the Medal of Honor in World War II.
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CreditStudio Ghibli, Tokuma-Shoten, Nibariki, via Kobal Collection My First Film Fest: A Mix of Dark Themes and Sunny Attitude
This new festival, the first for children from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, offers a mix of contemporary works and classics, with movies for teenagers, too.
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CreditLucasfilm The Strong Women of ‘Star Wars’
Leia, Rey and now Jyn Erso are the best known, but they’re hardly alone. And they all can match lightsabers with Darth Vader.
