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‘The Last Temptation of Becky’ Review: ‘You Had Me at Nazi’
Weekend, Today

In the third installment of this revenge fantasy, Becky (Lulu Wilson) travels to Poland to confront an innkeeper with fascist plans (Neil Patrick Harris).

A 1985 Pipe-Bombing Refuses to Fade
Culture, October 30

Manhood
Weekend, October 29

Gleeful Sportsmen Who Tackle the Battlefield
Weekend, October 29

Dementia’s Torments, Terrifying To Watch
Weekend, October 29

Danger, Tenacity And Tragedy
Weekend, October 29

The Mongoose
Weekend, October 29

Christmas at the Kringles
Weekend, October 29

Apocalypse Z: New World
Weekend, October 29

When the Cringe Starts to Fizzle
Weekend, October 28

On the Road
Weekend, October 28

A Portrait of Grief and Obsession
Weekend, October 28

The Changing Dynamics Of a Family on the Move
Culture, October 23

Feted by a Postwar Germany of Ghosts
Weekend, October 22

Inequities Widen Social Fissures
Weekend, October 22

To Get Her Brother Back, She’ll Face What’s in the Forest
Weekend, October 22

A Family Tree Begins With a Handmade Man
Weekend, October 22

When a Con Artist Meets His Maker
Weekend, October 22

Maybe You’re an Easier Mark Than You Think
Weekend, October 22

Making Marie Antoinette
Weekend, October 22

Let’s Just Say She’s One Eccentric Android
Weekend, October 22

Clayface
Weekend, October 22

Making a Case for Innocence With a Little Help From A.I.
Culture, October 16

Interrogating a Slippery Mind
Weekend, October 15

At a House Party Of Luminaries
Weekend, October 15

Showdowns Galore in a Punchy Slugfest
Weekend, October 15

Pearls of Wisdom in the Belly of a Beast
Weekend, October 15

The Climb And Peak Of a Pioneer
Weekend, October 15

It Can’t Buy Love, But Money Sure Can Pay the Bills
Weekend, October 15

Sacrifice
Weekend, October 15

Searching for Freedom, and Love, in Spain
Weekend, October 15

California Schemin’
Weekend, October 15

Love of Your Life
Weekend, October 15

Are You My Mother? One Is Maternal, One Is Evil.
Culture, October 9

Political Bedfellows And Broken Lives
Weekend, October 8

A Moral Rorschach Test When Life Goes Askew
Weekend, October 8

Winter of the Crow
Weekend, October 8

Aiming a Slingshot at a Social Media Giant
Weekend, October 8

Home Is a Memory For These Reporters
Weekend, October 8

Air Kisses Taunt a Striving Actor’s Angst in L.A.
Weekend, October 8

The Beast
Weekend, October 8

Matchbox the Movie
Weekend, October 8

Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net
Weekend, July 25

This documentary chronicles the reboot and reopening in Las Vegas of the acrobatic show “O,” which shutdown during the pandemic.

Fire Through Dry Grass
Weekend, September 28

This enlightening, troubling documentary chronicles life (and death) among residents in a long-term care facility during the heights of the pandemic.

Backstage, Challenged By Covid
Weekend, December 27

Stakeholders including Patti LuPone and Lynn Nottage share their real-time reactions to New York theater’s shutdown and reopening in Amy Rice’s documentary.

Bad Axe
Weekend, November 17

The filmmaker David Siev chronicles his family’s struggle to keep their Michigan restaurant afloat through the pandemic in this hermetic documentary.