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Critics Choice Awards 2023: The Complete Winners List

The Critics Choice Awards are being handed out on Sunday night. We’re updating the winners as they’re announced at the ceremony, with host Chelsea Handler. Here is the complete list of nominees: Film Best Supporting Actor Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Best Supporting Actress Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Best Original […]

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Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection

Not that Nighy has seen any of those movies, or indeed any movie in which he appears. “Well, would you fancy sitting down and watching yourself for a couple of hours?” he asked. “I tried it when I was younger and less complicated to look at, and there’s nothing in it for me. I’m not […]

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‘Hunters’: David Weil on Hunting Nazis as Collective Catharsis

What were you doing before “Hunters”? When I moved out to L.A. in 2011, I was tutoring kids in Beverly Hills and the Palisades and Santa Monica from about 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., then I would drive home to my little apartment in West Hollywood and write from 10 p.m. until 4 in the […]

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Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting

You would be forgiven for suffering, at this point, from pandemic fatigue. I’m referring here not to Covid-19 but to the many plagues that have kicked off TV apocalypses in recent years. From “Station Eleven” to “12 Monkeys,” “The Walking Dead” to “The Stand,” “Y: The Last Man” to “The Last Man on Earth,” this […]

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Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs

Songs could barely contain Jeff Beck’s guitar. It jabbed at tunes with brute-force riffs. It sparred with singers for the spotlight. It clawed at the limits of verses and choruses, screaming melodies of its own, making notes slide and wriggle; sometimes it scraped out funky, contentious rhythm chords. Yet in quieter moments, Beck’s guitar could […]

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Nicola Benedetti Prepares Her Next Star Turn: Festival Leader

“Too many times in my life I’ve seen, ‘Let’s have the whole nation playing the violin in two years,’ and people saying, ‘Our world will be fixed if that happens,’” Benedetti said of the organization’s constructive role within the wider education ecosystem. Within minutes, she flipped from arch idealist to blunt realist: “I’m in a […]

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‘Bardo’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera. Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera.

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‘Violent Night’ | Anatomy of a Scene

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