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‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand play a toxic power couple in Joel Coen’s crackling adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play.

‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand play a toxic power couple in Joel Coen’s crackling adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play.

‘The Tender Bar’ Review: Where Everybody Knows His Name

Ben Affleck serves up whiskey and wisdom in George Clooney’s adaptation of the best-selling memoir by J.R. Moehringer.

‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man

Paolo Sorrentino’s autobiographical drama about growing up in Naples is sensual, sad and occasionally sublime.

‘France’ Review: When the Journalist Becomes the Story

Léa Seydoux plays a star television anchor whose life comes unraveled in Bruno Dumont’s new film.

‘Red Rocket’ Review: All My XXX’s Live in Texas

A porn star returns to his hometown in Sean Baker’s latest slice of hard-luck Americana.

‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight

Steven Spielberg rediscovers the breathing, troubling essence of a classic, building a bold and current screen musical with no pretense to perfection.

Hollywood Still Matters. This Year’s Best Actors Showed Why.

Even as theaters suffer, cinema has been thriving during the pandemic — thanks to the intimacy movies create between performer and audience.

‘Flee’ Review: From Kabul to Copenhagen

A Danish documentary uses animation to tell the poignant, complicated story of an Afghan refugee.

Tony Kushner, Oracle of the Upper West Side

The most important living American playwright has a number of new projects on the horizon — and plenty more to say about how to make...