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The breakout character was initially envisioned as a monster. But when the filmmakers saw it wasn’t working, they found their way to a softer antagonist.

David Marchese talks to the comedy legend about navigating the minefield of fame, “Family Feud” and changing Hollywood forever.

Wearing a costume from “Frozen” in daily life has become a pastime for many children who identify with the character, regardless of gender.

The actress stars in the new “Beverly Hills Cop” movie, but off-camera, she’s reading several books at once and streaming both YouTube and the Criterion Collection.

Dr. Alex Arroyo, a director of pediatric medicine in Brooklyn, gets to live out his “Star Wars” dreams, practice jujitsu and make a big mess while cooking for his family.

The French filmmaker Catherine Breillat has been exploring relationships between girls and older men since the 1970s. Her latest, “Last Summer,” flips the script.

This month’s selections include a Japanese serial-killer thriller, a Pride Month pick from Sri Lanka, a Malaysian drama about undocumented street hustlers and more.

A bunch of major titles are leaving for U.S. subscribers this month, including films by George Lucas and Ang Lee. See them while you can.

A new Balmain collection pays homage to the Disney film on a milestone anniversary. Plus, a preppy designer makes a comeback.

Even as the technology advances, stubborn stereotypes about women are re-encoded again and again.

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

“How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer” hits on an ingenious structure that avoids hagiography even as it includes friends and family.

When Zara (Joey King) realizes that her mom (Nicole Kidman) is dating her boss (Zac Efron), she tries to split them up.

“The Apprentice,” a dramatized origin story about Donald J. Trump, has faced fierce criticism from the former president and his allies.

In Penny Lane’s newest film, she turns the camera on herself to document her experience donating a kidney to a stranger.

An endangered French aristocrat is stranded with a benighted rural family in this tragicomic fairy tale.

An ethereal, experimental new drama retells the story of the mythical Greek hero.

Jake Paltrow’s film braids three fictional stories around the 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi official and war criminal.

It’s clear that Rita’s life in rural Argentina could use a bit of magic. But her willingness to bend the truth to achieve it heralds disaster.

It’s been a challenge to follow the case. Here are its many twists and turns.

After an accidental on-set shooting death — and two years of bitter legal combat — the movie star is about to have his day in court.

The service is an art house answer to what’s missing on some of the more popular streamers.

Irene Taylor, director of the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion,” talks about the decision to include a grueling scene of the pop star in crisis.

Mr. Majors, who was sentenced to a year of domestic violence programming and was dropped by Marvel, is set to star in the independent thriller “Merciless.”

Dion’s voice made her a star. A new documentary on Amazon Prime Video brings her back to Earth, showing her intimate struggles with stiff person syndrome.

To make “Horizon,” he put his own money on the line and left “Yellowstone,” the series that revived his career — all with little Hollywood support.

The actor was playing a young Michael Jackson when Elton John spotted him. Three decades later, the new attention to his legacy is “gratifying.”

Amid challenges in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renewed its chief executive’s contract a year early.

The company’s latest internal memo about its corporate culture is more about how it expects employees to behave than what it wants to become.

In a way that’s both cathartic and devastating, Pixar’s latest portrays how anxiety can take hold, our critic writes.

In a three-decade career, he’s developed an impressive range without forgetting how to have fun.

The actor and director is turning his attention to his ambitious film series about post-Civil War America.

The British filmmaking team were maestros of Technicolor and so much more. If you don’t know their work, your favorite directors do.

Whether in the lead or a supporting role, the actor’s immense talent and range were apparent in six decades of performances.

This month’s picks include demon baby, a cursed chef and all kinds of people trapped in hellish situations.

*That’s his opinion. And yet he’s setting a new standard for what life after late-night can look like. (Hint: It’s a lot like what he did on talk shows.)

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

The playwright Annie Baker shares the artistic influences behind her feature film debut.

This new documentary unearths footage from a World Cup event that even veteran players didn’t know about. It’s both exhilarating and infuriating.

The actor understood the range of human feeling, but he came of age when movies distrusted institutions, and that suspicion was part of his arsenal.

In a wide-ranging career (from “M*A*S*H” to “Ordinary People” to “The Hunger Games”), he could be endearing in one role, menacing in another and just plain odd in a third.

Agnieszka Holland focuses on the Polish-Belarusian border as a Syrian family tries to make it to the European Union.

A new documentary follows the Swiss tennis star from his 2022 retirement announcement to his final match.

The young directors Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía (Beba) Contreras stargaze, watch fireworks and discuss their lives in this documentary filmed in Laredo, Texas.

The remarkable June Squibb plays a vengeful scam victim in this ludicrous action-movie spoof.

This stark psychological horror movie tracks the mental deterioration of an 18th-century peasant woman.

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with a twisted fable triptych about dominating and being dominated.

Russell Crowe stars as an actor playing an exorcist who’s battling his own demons.

Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story for both a misfit tween and her mother.

Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy star in a romanticized drama about a fictional motorcycle club in the 1960s.

A new Netflix documentary explores what led to the release of Black Barbie in 1980, both celebrating her existence and recognizing her limitations.

Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly and Rip Taylor get a cursory mention in a new documentary about queer stand-up, but they were groundbreaking.

“Elvis” and “Dune” established him as a chameleonic movie star. Now, with “The Bikeriders,” something closer to the real Butler is being revealed.

The French star created characters who could be fantasies or enigmas, but they always intrigued, even when she was miscast in Hollywood.

Participants at De Niro Con in Tribeca could talk like Travis Bickle, shadowbox like Jake LaMotta or get a tattoo like Max Cady. Yes, a real tattoo.

A new Netflix documentary showcases comedy as a source of queer liberation, featuring Margaret Cho, Tig Notaro, Joel Kim Booster and more.

The visual effects supervisor, hurt in one of three recent accidents on Amazon film sets, has sued, but the company says it is not to blame.

Speculative science fiction, period drama and sly thrillers are among this month’s off-the-beaten-path recommendations from your subscription streamers.

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“Merrily We Roll Along” is Radcliffe’s fifth show on Broadway, but the first for which he was even nominated for a Tony Award.

The sequel was expected to collect at least $155 million in the United States and Canada over the weekend, about 70 percent more than anticipated.

Back in New York City after filming a movie, the actress has been racing to shows while also rehearsing for Sunday night’s ceremony.

“Firebrand” focuses on his sixth spouse as she tries to outlast the ailing king and his treacherous court. “I thought of it as a thriller,” the director says.

In his decade at ABC, long the doormat network in prime time, he helped guide it toward the No. 1 spot. He later produced “Nashville” and won an Emmy for “Friendly Fire.”

A new emotion has taken over Riley’s teenage mind. And she has lessons for us all.

This month’s picks include bruised bodies and bruised male egos.

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

The director Kelsey Mann narrates a sequence from his film, which pits Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler) against Anxiety (Maya Hawke).

His keyboard, which became famous after Tom Hanks melodiously hopped on it, displayed Mr. Saraceni’s vision of technology powered by “people energy.”

This three-part Netflix documentary examines the supposed scheme to exploit TikTok dancers — and proves why cult narratives shouldn’t be rushed.

The director Kelsey Mann narrates a sequence from his film.

A new documentary revisits the group of young actors that helped define the decade. Here are some of its most interesting moments.

A superhero raises a baby monster in this animated film. But the action is dragged down by talky sequences about parental responsibility.

Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry star in a Holocaust-memory drama that uneasily doubles as a father-daughter road movie.

A triumph of sensitivity, Noah Schamus’s debut feature tracks a rural reunion between old friends struggling to recover their bond.

The writer-director David Duchovny plays a long-suffering Red Sox fan with cancer who may yet live to see the team defeat the Yankees.

Top-shelf actors and authentic Tudor table-setting fail to quicken this glumly unfocused take on the exploits of Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr.

Myth and the changes of puberty combine in Amanda Nell Eu’s fierce, funny debut feature.

A father and son resort to desperate measures to save an ailing child in this Texas-set dramatic thriller.

The film is a gentle, emotional drama about a family struggling to stay together. It’s also about the power of theater.

In this documentary, Andrew McCarthy examines fame and disappointment as a member of the so-called Brat Pack of the 1980s.

Once labeled a “natural-born heavy,” he shined onscreen and especially onstage, securing a Tony nomination and winning an Obie Award.

The deal is a rare example of a traditional Hollywood studio owning a movie theater chain.

Anxiety meets Joy in Pixar’s eager, predictably charming sequel to its innovative 2015 hit. Sadness is still around, too, as are Fear and Disgust.

Blake Lively, Jude Law, Selma Blair and many more turned out for the Tribeca Film Festival’s annual artists dinner, ahead of a weekend devoted to Mr. De Niro’s work.

The ride was closed last year because of its connection to a racist film. Disney overhauled it to focus on Tiana, Disney’s first Black princess, drawing praise and backlash.

The director Richard Linklater narrates a pivotal sequence from his rom-com thriller.

Richard Linklater, the director of “Hit Man,” narrates a pivotal sequence from his film, starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona.

A graphic on the Peacock home screen seemed to induct the killer doll into the gay pantheon. His creator, however, says Chucky’s queer credentials are well established.

When the museum first opened, it was criticized for omitting Hollywood’s Jewish pioneers. Now it is under fire for what its new exhibit says about them.

At St. Ann’s Warehouse, a collaboration between a Danish director and a South African troupe that questions the tropes of Western films.

For Jennifer Lopez, Sterling K. Brown, Dakota Johnson and others, the standard publicity push isn’t so standard anymore.

The actress, who stars with Glen Powell, said that with the contract-killer movie, her ideas were finally valued in a writers’ room.

The actress is taking on serious roles, trying to overcome self-doubt and sharing more about her personal life — but she’s not done being funny.

She just finished playing Flannery O’Connor and released a new album. Next up: “Inside Out 2” and a new season of “Stranger Things.”

She bore a startling resemblance to Elizabeth II. In “The Naked Gun” and other movies, and in comedy sketches on TV, she wore the crown lightly.

In a town littered with would-be superstars, he’s trying to beat the odds by giving studios what they crave. It’s no coincidence he’s everywhere.

This month’s sci-fi picks include alienoids, bionic athletes and a little creature named Godzilla.

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

This month’s picks include an animated musical comedy starring Brittany Howard and a Marvel superhero adventure packed with martial arts.