The academy is keeping mum about the prospect, but the movie is part of a renewed push for a new Academy Award first considered more than 30 years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/movies/the-fall-guy-stunts-oscars.html
The tennis movie comes to an abrupt stop midmatch, so we don’t know who won. Does that matter?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/movies/challengers-ending-zendaya.html
The Oscar-winning actor will star as an A.I.-curious author in “McNeal,” starting performances in September at Lincoln Center Theater.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/theater/robert-downey-jr-ayad-akhtar-broadway.html
Her arresting roles in movies like “Bush Mama” and “Daughters of the Dust” helped shape a generation of independent filmmakers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/movies/barbara-o-jones-dead.html
His acclaimed “The Class” walked a provocative line between documentary and fiction. In that film and others, he explored the inescapable traps of late-stage capitalism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/movies/laurent-cantet-dead.html
With a stout frame, bushy whiskers and a weathered visage, he embodied men of authority facing down danger with weary stoicism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/obituaries/bernard-hill-dead.html
“The sound of his voice reminds me of the beginnings of things,” the actress said. “The first time you fell in love, the first time you went away.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/movies/laura-linney-wildcat.html
Ahmed Best recalls the painful backlash to the “Phantom Menace” character that was considered a racial stereotype at the time, but is now embraced by fans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/movies/jar-jar-binks-actor-star-wars-ahmed-best.html
George Lucas wants them to fade into oblivion. But some fans spent more than a decade digitally restoring the original “Star Wars” trilogy, preserving the movies as they were shown in theater...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/arts/star-wars-films-george-lucas.html
The comedian, long beloved for his apolitical riffs, has been wrestling with what it means to be Jewish amid the Israel-Hamas war. Not everyone is pleased.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/us/politics/jerry-seinfeld-antisemitism-jewish-identity.html
The filmmakers do more to align star and character than the novel did. But somehow that doesn’t make the movie indebted to the musician.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/movies/the-idea-of-you-harry-styles-anne-hathaway.html
The comedian talks to David Marchese on becoming a different person after the death of his parents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/magazine/marlon-wayans-interview.html
The actor charms as a swaggering stunt man, alongside an underused Emily Blunt, in the latest skull-rattling action movie from David Leitch.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/movies/fall-guy-ryan-gosling.html
The director David Leitch narrates a sequence from his film featuring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000009444739/the-fall-guy-scene.html
The director David Leitch narrates a sequence from the film featuring Gosling and Emily Blunt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/movies/the-fall-guy-scene.html
This month’s picks include a Mexican family drama, a Palestinian coming-of-age tale, a high-school movie from Ukraine and more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/movies/five-international-movies-to-stream-now.html
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/movies/new-movies-this-week-critics.html
This month’s picks include a nature documentary filmed in the Indian wilderness and an animated family adventure from the studio behind “Despicable Me.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/movies/kids-movies-streaming.html
The documentary tells the strange story of a groundbreaking 1998 Japanese TV show but doesn’t go far enough in its examination.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/movies/the-contestant-hulu-reality-tv.html
In his directorial debut, Jerry Seinfeld tackles the history of the fruit-filled pastries … kind of. Here’s the real origin story, along with a bonus quiz.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/movies/unfrosted-pop-tarts-movie-history.html
The tinted balm was inspired by products that the filmmaker confected as a girl to achieve the “berry-stained lips” of a character in a Roman Polanski movie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/style/sofia-coppola-lip-balm.html
Starring Jerry Seinfeld in his feature directing debut, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is the only corporate saga whose main ingredient is high-fructose sarcasm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/movies/unfrosted-review.html
Ryusuke Hamaguchi follows up his sublime drama “Drive My Car” with a parable about a rural Japanese village and the resort developer eyeing its land.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/movies/evil-does-not-exist-review-ryusuke-hamaguchi.html
The second feature by the Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradze asks what a relationship looks like when you factor out the sex.
Maïwenn wrote, directed and stars in the film, playing opposite Johnny Depp, who is Louis XV. Though he declares he loves her, their chemistry is weak.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/movies/jeanne-du-barry-review.html
Subtitled “The Story of Anita Pallenberg,” this documentary gives the life of the actress and model a thorough downer of a treatment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/movies/catching-fire-review-how-the-stones-muse-rolled.html
Ethan Hawke teams up with his daughter, Maya Hawke, for an unconventional and somewhat muddled portrait of a singular author.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/movies/wildcat-review-flannery-oconnor.html
An outstanding not-quite-horror film about being a fan just before the internet took over.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/movies/i-saw-the-tv-glow-review.html
Hannah Marks’s adaptation of John Green’s blockbuster young-adult novel builds a dynamic depiction of a teenager with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/movies/turtles-all-the-way-down-review.html
Anne Hathaway headlines a movie that’s got a lot to say about the perils of fame.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/movies/the-idea-of-you-review.html
The filmmaker has made it clear that “Civil War” is a warning. Instead, the ugliness of war comes across as comforting thrills.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/magazine/civil-war-movies.html
“The Idea of You,” “Scrublands,” “The Big Cigar” and “Hacks” are streaming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/arts/television/may-streaming-movies-tv-shows.html