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  • Russia Fires Scores of Missiles While Ramping Up Winter Offensive

    Russia Fires Scores of Missiles While Ramping Up Winter Offensive

    Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched a “massive” attack targeting the country’s already battered infrastructure, using drones and dozens of cruise missiles.

  • Life as the Mayor of Kherson: No Sleep. Lots of Shelling. And Some Cognac.

    Life as the Mayor of Kherson: No Sleep. Lots of Shelling. And Some Cognac.

    Being the leader of Kherson may feel more like a curse than an honor. But one woman isn’t giving up, even though the Russians are sitting just across the river and shelling her city nearly every hour.

  • With So Many Dead in Turkey, Families Forced to Rush Funeral Rites

    With So Many Dead in Turkey, Families Forced to Rush Funeral Rites

    The earthquake that hit in southern Turkey has killed more than 17,500 people there, overwhelming the traditional funeral process and accelerating how families say goodbye.

  • What We Know About the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria

    What We Know About the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria

    As the death toll rises in the one of the deadliest quakes in decades, a global humanitarian aid effort faces deep challenges.

  • Magic Mike’s Last Dance

    Magic Mike’s Last Dance

    “Magic” Mike Lane can’t stop bumping and grinding. He’s the male stripper version of a bank robber or cowboy who swears he’s retired but gets lured back into action for one last job. “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” the third film starring Channing Tatum as a big-hearted, iron-thewed Florida stripper, knows that we know that Mike…

  • Sharper

    Sharper

    Benjamin Caron’s “Sharper,” now in limited theatrical release and streaming on Apple TV+ next week, allows one to imagine what Julianne Moore and John Lithgow could have done with an ‘80s David Mamet screenplay like “House of Games” or “The Spanish Prisoner.” It’s one of those narrative jigsaw puzzles that feels like it went from…

  • Somebody I Used to Know

    Somebody I Used to Know

    Ten years ago, Ally (Alison Brie) left her boyfriend and their small, rural hometown to make documentaries in Los Angeles. Now, after three years as showrunner of a trashy reality show that crosses “Survivor,” “The Great British Baking Show,” and “Love Island,” she tells herself that “it’s just like making a documentary, except that people…

  • Your Place or Mine

    Your Place or Mine

    “Your Place or Mine” begins in 2003, and it feels like the kind of superficially agreeable and instantly forgettable romantic comedy that came out around that time. These are the movies that have found new life in heavy rotation on the monitors at DryBar: “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” “The Holiday,” and…

  • Huesera: The Bone Woman

    Huesera: The Bone Woman

    No one ever speaks the name of the entity tormenting new mother Valeria (Natalia Solián) in the Mexican horror movie “Huesera: The Bone Woman.” No one gives a title to the ritual needed to expel it from her life, either. There are whispers about how such things are dangerous and should only be utilized in…

  • Reddit admits it was hacked and data stolen, says “Don’t panic”

    Reddit admits it was hacked and data stolen, says “Don’t panic”

    Reddit is suggesting three tips as a follow-up to this breach. We agree with two of them but not with the third…