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Rooney Mara reveals she almost quit acting after 'Nightmare on Elm Street'

Mara said the 2010 flick was "not a good experience." Here's why.

Courtney Love: I was fired from 'Fight Club' after going 'nuclear' on Brad Pitt

Pitt allegedly tried to "stalk" Love about playing her late husband, Kurt Cobain, in a potential biopic. She wasn't interested, so she was reportedly bounced from "Fight Club."

Chloé Zhao is first Asian woman to win Best Director Oscar

The 39-year-old filmmaker is the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, taking home a golden statuette for "Nomadland" Sunday.

Here's who will win at the Oscars — and who should win

The Post's entertainment critic, Johnny Oleksinski, selects the big winners — and his choices for who should win — for the 2021 Oscars, airing Sun., April 25, at 8 p.m. on...

The 20 best movies of 2020 you'll want to watch before the new year

The Post's critics share their picks for the best of a bizarre year.

'Citizen Kane' writer led a wild life of genius and self-destruction

Meet Herman Mankiewicz, a screenwriter who many believe is actually the sole writer of the 1940 classic film "Citizen Kane." He was a raging alcoholic, and superb wit, who battled...

'Mank' review: David Fincher's latest is the best movie of the year

Every scene oozes intellect, but stops short of pretension.

'Mindhunter' serves up a soggy serial

Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) is the sort of FBI agent who’s so clean-cut that he drinks a glass of milk after a long day at the office. But, in “Mindhunter,”...

Hitchcock doc has nothing new to say

Alfred Hitchcock’s towering reputation as a filmmaker owes much to “Hitchcock/Truffaut," a book-length interview French director François Truffaut conducted with him half a century ago. But hard-core Hitchcock fans will...

HBO shutters Fincher show mid-stream

David Fincher’s forthcoming HBO comedy series abruptly shut down production on Thursday after filming four episodes, according to reports. Titled “Video Synchronicity,” the comedy is set in Los Angeles in...

The 10 worst movie remakes of all time

Still giggling and dazed from the surprise monster box office of “Gone Girl,” Ben Affleck and David Fincher are checking into Hubris House together. The two have decided to join...

'Gone Girl' may be a thriller, but it's no commentary on marriage

Note: This story contains spoilers Novelist and screenwriter Gillian Flynn has joked of her creation “Gone Girl” that the movie could “break up couples nationwide.” Maybe. But it’s only ruining...

Will Rosamund Pike Get a Best Actress Oscar nomination for ‘Gone Girl’?

Few female performers have been as extravagantly praised this year by some critics as Rosamund Pike was playing an unhappily married woman who goes missing — and throwing suspicion on...

Glossy thriller ‘Gone Girl’ tries to have its cake and eat it, too

David Fincher’s “Gone Girl’’ is a glossy, empty and ultimately unsatisfying — if undeniably entertaining — movie about a writer (Ben Affleck) who becomes a murder suspect after his beautiful...

Hear Trent Reznor’s soundtrack to ‘Gone Girl’

If you can’t wait until next week’s nationwide opening of David Fincher’s new thriller “Gone Girl,” then here’s a way to get an upfront taste of the tension. The movie’s...

Neil Patrick Harris will creep you out in 'Gone Girl'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DPpygqaCjY It was already one of the year's most anticipated movies, but now "Gone Girl" has gone and upped the ante with a special ingredient: a sunken-eyed Neil Patrick Harris....

Chilling first look at Ben Affleck in 'Gone Girl'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGn-xKFZdU The first look at the highly anticipated movie “Gone Girl” has arrived. Directed by David Fincher (“The Social Network”), the film is an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s thrilling novel...