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Middle East Crisis : U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Calling for a Cease-Fire in Gaza
For the third time, the United States used its veto on the Security Council to kill a resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. Washington has proposed an alternative asking for a halt in fighting “as soon as practicable.”
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Despite Interpol Fixes, Strongmen Find New Ways to Abuse It
The international police organization has toughened oversight of its protocols, which autocrats have used to pursue dissidents. But the autocrats have adapted.
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Yulia Navalnaya, Aleksei Navalny’s Widow, Takes Center Stage
The wife of Russia’s most famous opposition leader long shunned the spotlight, but his death in prison may make that impossible. “I have no right to give up,” she said.
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Protesting Polish Farmers Block Much of Ukraine’s Western Border
The farmers are demonstrating against what they see as an influx of Ukrainian food products crowding the Polish market and undercutting their livelihood.
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Russian Pilot Who Defected to Ukraine Is Believed Dead in Spain
The apparent death in Spain of Maksim Kuzminov is likely to fuel speculation that it was the work of Russia’s intelligence services.
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Movies Starring Real-Life Fathers and Daughters, Ranked
Ewan McGregor’s new film is personal for him. The story of a father and daughter on a road trip, “Bleeding Love” examines these characters’ frayed relationship as they try to heal old wounds. But while the drama isn’t strictly autobiographical, some of its themes — addiction, the trauma of divorce on children — definitely echo…
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Kiss the Future
There is a singular image that beautifully sums up the theme of Nenad Cicin-Sain’s “Kiss the Future” as well as the siege in Sarajevo itself. I have seen this image many times: as a CD cover, a poster, a heavily filtered image in a music video, on a giant screen in a stadium during a…
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I Used to Hate The Phantom Menace, but I Didn’t Know How Good I Had It
We’re coming up on the 25th anniversary of the release of “The Phantom Menace,” the biggest disappointment of my moviegoing life. I didn’t know how good I had it back then. Let me explain. I wasn’t expecting an intellectually stimulating visual feast on the order of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third…
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Berlin Film Festival 2024: Dahomey, My Favorite Cake, A Traveler’s Needs
If I have another dispatch with three films of this quality, then Berlin will have been an incredible success. Each selection here is an intimate, at moments, meditative interrogation of memory and the brutal passage of time composed through a historic, personable, and hilarious lens. They’re also from two dependable auteurs and two newer filmmakers,…
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#478 February 20, 2024
Matt writes: Our Editor at Large Matt Zoller Seitz recently posted a very well-received essay entitled, “Why Deleting and Destroying Finished Movies Like ‘Coyote vs Acme’ Should Be a Crime.” You can read the article in its entirety here, and view the first few paragraphs below… There’s an old joke about a guy who murders…