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Iran Looks to Houthi Proxies to Escalate Fight With Israel
The Iranian-backed militia in Yemen has launched drone and missile attacks on Israeli and American targets. American officials fear the group could go too far and incite a wider war.
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Teenagers Convicted in France in Connection With Teacher Samuel Paty’s Killing
The teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded in 2020 by an Islamist extremist after showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his students to illustrate free speech.
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Putin Says He Will Seek Another Term as Russia’s President
The announcement was long expected after the Constitution was amended in 2020, effectively allowing the Russian leader to stay in power until 2036.
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Israel-Hamas War: U.S. Vetoes Security Council Resolution Demanding Cease-Fire in Gaza
The U.S. ambassador said a permanent cease-fire before Hamas is dismantled would sow the seeds of a future conflict. Britain abstained and the 13 other members of the U.N. Security Council voted in favor of an immediate halt in the fighting.
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The Archies
It’s hard to imagine an American comic book movie that’s as proudly naïve and nostalgic as the fizzy Bollywood musical “The Archies,” which relocates the happy stock characters of “Archie” comics to a fantasy version of mid-‘60s India. It’s harder still to imagine another achingly sincere and light-hearted comic book adaptation that doesn’t also slavishly…
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Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, Poor Things Lead CFCA Nominations
A trio of films won over the Chicago Film Critics Association this year, all landing double digit nominations, the first time three movies have done that in the same year. The ‘Barbenheimer’ craze won over the critical establishment of the city, notching a combined 19 nominations, but it was “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Oppenheimer,” and “Poor…
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Fare Thee Well: On the Tenth Anniversary of Inside Llewyn Davis
Folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is auditioning for Bud Grossman (F. Murray Abraham) in a last-ditch effort to salvage his fading chances of making it as a folk singer. This single pivotal scene defines what the Coen Brothers superb “Inside Llewyn Davis” is all about. During his audition toward the end of the film,…
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Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos seems delighted in depicting extreme behavior within pristine settings, whether it’s the quiet suburbia of “Dogtooth” or the clinical lab of “The Lobster” or the opulent grandeur of “The Favourite.” That glaring contrast between the expectations of decorum and the messy truth of humanity seems to fascinate him endlessly. Nowhere is this conflict…
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Origin
Ava DuVernay is an inquisitive filmmaker, curious about social structures and collective grief. Her newest picture, the ambitious investigative film, “Origin,” has a scene that blends DuVernay’s interests with her rigor. Following a sold-out public talk for her book The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis) bumps into her persistent editor Amari (Blair…
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A Tyrannosaur Was Found Fossilized, and So Was Its Last Meal
A 75-million-year-old Gorgosaurus fossil is the first tyrannosaur skeleton ever found with a filled stomach.