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Israel Confirms Death of Muhammad Deif, Who It Says Helped Planned Hamas Attack
The Israeli military said it had killed Muhammad Deif, who it called a planner of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which would make him the third Iranian-backed militant leader slain in recent days.
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Israel, Defiant, Appears to Have Gone Rogue, Risking a Regional War
Ignoring the efforts of President Biden and the condemnation of many allies, the Israeli prime minister is forcing the pace of the war and feeding the revolt of the far right.
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Russian Dissident Says He Was Traded Against His Will in Inmate Swap
Ilya Yashin, a prominent opposition politician, said he appreciated his freedom, but told his jailers he did not want it if it meant going into exile.
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An Autocrat’s Tool Backfires in Venezuela
Nicolás Maduro claimed victory in his country’s election. But exit polls suggested the opposition leader won a landslide, setting off protests around the country.
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I’ve Got A Way With Young People: 25 Years of Dick
People like to pay a certain amount of lip service to the importance of young people participating in the electoral process. Still, in most regards, they tend to be either marginalized or outright dismissed. So it’s always a delight when those underestimated voices band together and flex their political muscle in unexpected ways. Recall, if…
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Rebel Moon: Director’s Cuts
Your investment in Zack Snyder’s creative vision will likely determine how badly you need to see the R-rated director’s cut of “Rebel Moon,” Snyder’s grim Netflix space opera adventure. This new director’s cut adds 120 minutes of footage, including a numbing wealth of computer-animated gore and a bit more sex. Some of this new material…
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Kneecap
The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha abhaile,” a traditional Irish song, in the Irish language required in their school. They drone the lyrics, looking bored out of their minds. Two boys in the back, sharing earbuds, are pretending to sing along but are actually listening to another kind of…
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The Instigators
I didn’t think Doug Liman could deliver a worse film than “Road House,” the plastic, overwrought remake of the 1980s cult classic. With “The Instigators,” his second film of the year, he manages to make Matt Damon, in a re-teaming from their Bourne days, so void of any charm that the director makes this among…
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Coup!
This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words being spelled out letter by letter. The time and place of this new movie co-directed by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman, who also wrote the screenplay, becomes clear. It’s the United States in 1918, and the Spanish Flu is making its way to…
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Archaeologists Find a 2,400-Year-Old ‘Pot of Gold’ in Turkey
An ancient hoard of Persian coins offers insights into the political landscape around the time of the Peloponnesian War.