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In Britain, Shockwaves From Israel-Hamas War Are Jolting Domestic Politics
The United States and several European nations have been caught up in toxic debates that have altered election campaigns and led to eruptions of inflammatory language over the conflict.
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Putin Warns West of Nuclear War if It Intervenes More in Ukraine
“We also have weapons that can strike targets on their territory,” Mr. Putin said in an annual speech. “Do they not understand this?”
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Calls for a Boycott Roil Iran’s Parliamentary Elections
Voters enraged by a violent crackdown on protesters and disaffected by the failure of elections to yield substantive changes are vowing to make a statement by staying home during Friday’s elections.
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Putin’s Nuclear Threats Become Background Theme of Ukraine War
Repeated threats by President Vladimir Putin of Russia to make use of nuclear weapons have become the background theme of the war in Ukraine, often timed for maximum effect.
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Outsider Art Fair: Here’s 8 Things to See
A Beat poet’s self-portrait, a 1930s circus poster, Georgia Russell’s three-foot dolls — these are some of the singular finds at this busy Manhattan fair.
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Nobody Else Is Doing What Emma Stone Is Doing Right Now
Some people are members of “Saturday Night Live’s” Five-Timers Club. Some people have won two Best Actress Oscars. And some people are part of one of the most talked-about series of 2023. But no one is all of those people—unless Emma Stone wins the Academy Award on March 10th. There’s no guarantee Stone will emerge…
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The 25th Anniversary of Ebertfest to Open with Star 80, With The Best Man As Its Centerpiece
Ebert Fest will be 25 Years Old!!! I am absolutely overjoyed to follow Variety’s announcement that our Roger Ebert’s Film Festival “Ebertfest” will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year! It is incredible to think that the film festival Roger and I co-founded in 1999 in conjunction with the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is still…
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Welcome to Chicago, Michał Oleszczyk!
I was delighted to attend the event at the Music Box in Chicago this week promoting the new book, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema, by our former Film Critic Odie Henderson, who is now the head critic at The Boston Globe. Odie is one of the people who never fails to make me laugh out loud at…
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Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen Stumbles Through the Door from Film to TV
Not all mediums work the same way. Say what you will about the overall quality, Guy Ritchie’s best work has a rhythm that fits film, whether it’s the zippy pace of something like “Snatch” or the gut punch of his underrated “Wrath of Man.” From the minute I heard that his “The Gentlemen” was going to…
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30 Minutes On: Dune Part Two
I can’t wait to watch both parts of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” on the biggest theater screen I can find. I would imagine they’d fit together as perfectly as the first two “Godfather” movies, which they evoke not just in their sepia portraits of corruption, power trips, and generational succession but in their 19th century potboiler-novel attitude toward the…