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We break down the 2025 Oscar nominations

This year’s Oscar nominations are out, and if you liked Emilia Pérez, Anora, Wicked, The Brutalist, and A Complete Unknown, then you’re in luck. As always, there’s an eclectic mix of heavy favorites, left-field surprises, and the dreaded snubs. We giv…

Karla Sofía Gascón is the first openly trans actress to receive an Oscar nomination

The Spanish actress portrays the titular character in Emilia Pérez, a polarizing musical that focuses on the life of a transgender drug lord in Mexico.

See the full list of 2025 Oscar nominations

Emilia Pérez raked in the most nominations Thursday morning, followed by The Brutalist and Wicked. The Academy Awards are scheduled for Sunday, March 2.

They made a post-apocalyptic Sundance film. Then their homes burned

The zombie apocalypse film Didn’t Die was made amid the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic and upheaval in Hollywood. The filmmakers lost their homes – but are still sharing their movie at Sundance.

‘One of Them Days’ turns Keke Palmer and SZA loose

Keke Palmer is one of Hollywood’s most charismatic leads, and SZA is one of the world’s biggest pop stars. Now, they’ve teamed up for the raunchy buddy comedy One of Them Days. The movie is about two best friends in L.A., who endure a wild series of misadventures as they try to make rent over the course of one very eventful day. It’s rowdy and profane, but it’s also got something to say about gentrification, predatory businesses, and other factors that make it hard to survive and advance in America.

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In ‘A Real Pain,’ Jesse Eisenberg asks: What is the purpose of ‘tragedy tourism’?

Eisenberg’s film follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includes a stop at the Majdanek death camp. The story draws on his own family history — and his struggle with OCD.

In ‘The Brutalist,’ art and commerce are always at odds

The new movie The Brutalist is earning a lot of Oscar buzz. Adrien Brody plays a fictional Hungarian architect who settles in America after his family is torn apart during World War II. It’s a three-and-a-half-hour epic with much to say about assimilat…

Justin Baldoni has sued Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds for $400 million

Baldoni, his studio Wayfarer, and their publicists are alleging civil extortion, defamation and a slew of contract-related claims about the film It Ends With Us.

Film offers ‘Hard Truths’ about why some people are happy — and others are miserable

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn’t a lot of plot, but director Mike Leigh builds his stories from the details and detritus of daily life.

‘Wolf Man’ is toothless

Everything old is new again, it seems, and there’s no reason that wouldn’t apply to werewolves. We now have a chance to enjoy a new Wolf Man starring Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner. Directed by Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man), it maintains that…

Shakespeare meets gaming in ‘Grand Theft Hamlet’

During pandemic lockdowns, two actors decided to try to stage a Shakespeare play entirely inside the game Grand Theft Auto. Grand Theft Hamlet tells the story.

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