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Live Updates: Israel Strikes Hezbollah Stronghold in Attempt to Kill Leader
Israeli officials say the country’s warplanes destroyed an underground bunker in a residential area after receiving information that the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was convening a meeting there. Several apartment buildings were flattened.
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Inside the Lebanese Valley Where Israel Is Bombarding Hezbollah
The Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah bastion in eastern Lebanon, had mostly been spared over 11 months of war. But The New York Times saw widespread devastation there after intense Israeli airstrikes this week.
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The Wily Spy Who Risked His Life to Meet North Korea’s Secretive Leader
Park Chae-so was so successful in infiltrating the North that Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic ruler, once gifted him blueberry wine. So why was the celebrated undercover agent later jailed by South Korea?
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Pope Francis Is Met With Anger Over Sexual Abuse on Visit to Belgium
During a trip to Luxembourg and Belgium, Francis spoke with 15 people who were abused by Roman Catholic clergy.
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Brontë Sisters Plaque at Westminster Abbey Typo Fixed
Punctuation delayed, but not denied: A memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë at Poets’ Corner in the celebrated London church finally gets its accent marks.
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A Careful Performer: Maggie Smith (1934-2024)
The essence of Maggie Smith’s greatness as an actor was in her timing. She could be extravagantly physically expressive, getting bold effects with the angular tilt of her head and particularly with the gesticulations of her arms and her snake-charming wrists, which seemed to have a life of their own. But what made her so…
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Home Entertainment Guide: September 2024
10 NEW TO NETFLIX “3:10 to Yuma““American Gangster““Black Mass““Edge of Tomorrow““Evil Dead Rise““Field of Dreams““Funny People““The Garfield Movie““Grave of the Fireflies““Midnight Run“ 10 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “All of Us Strangers” (Criterion) One of the best films of 2023 has continued to build appreciation since the fall fest circuit roughly a year ago. Andrew Haigh’s character…
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New York Film Festival 2024: Preview and Thoughts on “The Brutalist,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
For Gotham cinephiles, the New York Film Festival has its annual launch on the last Friday of September (the 2024 edition runs Sept. 27-Oct. 13). For critics, journalists and certain industry folks, though, the event begins a couple of weeks earlier, when festival press screenings commence at Lincoln Center. Those screenings don’t display films in…
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The Registers of Fear: Samara Weaving on “Azrael”
Rooting its vicious, survivalist thrills in the dog days of the apocalypse while acting as an epilogue to the Book of Revelation, director E.L. Katz’s “Azrael” terrifies by being both specific with its world-building and opaque at how its horrors manifested. Set “many years after the Rapture,” a brief intro text explains that, among those…
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Fantastic Fest 2024: Bone Lake, Bring Them Down, What Happened to Dorothy Bell?
We’re closing out our coverage of an excellent Fantastic Fest this year with a trio of very different films, all worth seeing when they find their way to your area in theaters or on streaming. The best of the three is Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s wonderfully twisted “Bone Lake,” a film that feels like a European…