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Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America
A jolting retrospective at the Whitney explores how climate change, emerging technologies and political deadlocks are shaping our work and life.
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Looking for Freedom, Isaac Julien Comes Home
At Tate Britain, the artist known for sumptuous works on fraught subjects like racism and homophobia finally receives a career retrospective in his own country.
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Peter Pan & Wendy
“Peter Pan & Wendy” is pretty much what you’d expect from a live-action version of one of Walt Disney’s animated classics, of which there are many now. A good chunk of this film’s audience will put it on expecting to see live-action re-creations of situations they know and love from the 1950 Disney cartoon feature, which was simply called…
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Ponniyin Selvan: Part II
Now’s not the best time to appreciate “Ponniyin Selvan: Part II,” the back half of a highly anticipated Tamil language adaptation of Kalki Krishnamurthy’s revered multi-volume historical drama. The indeterminate future’s probably the moment for this sequel, by which time S.S. Rajamouli’s influence might not seem as important to contemporary Indian pop cinema, and Indian…
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Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
James Gunn loves his outcasts. One of the most interesting things about his “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies has been watching the tug-of-war between Gunn’s outsider instincts and a franchise-generating machine that’s as insider as it gets. He’s one of the few filmmakers who has operated in the massive system of the biggest movie money-making…
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White House Plumbers
“White House Plumbers” is the story of a couple of tried-and-true Americans who wanted to serve their president. That description can go any which way, and it certainly fits the bizarre legacy of seasoned agent G. Gordon Liddy and his associate, Howard Hunt, who led the disastrous espionage operations later known as the Watergate scandal.…
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Fatal Attraction Works As Entertainment, Fails as Social Commentary
The new Paramount+ series “Fatal Attraction” captured my attention. It made me worry about its rather unlikeable characters, and I wanted to know what would happen next, even though it’s all right there in the title, not to mention outlined in the famed 1987 version. Part of its success as a piece of entertainment is…
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Google wins court order to force ISPs to filter botnet traffic
CryptBot criminals are alleged to have plundered browser passwords, illicitly-snapped screenshots, cryptocurrency account data, and more.
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The Art of Living Slow: Embracing the Simplicity Movement
In our fast-paced modern world, we often find ourselves caught up in a whirlwind of obligations, deadlines and endless to-do lists. We work long hours, juggle multiple tasks, and race against the clock to meet the expectations of a demanding society. But what if there was another way to live? What if, instead of striving…
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U.S. Wires Ukraine With Radiation Sensors to Detect Nuclear Blasts
The federal National Nuclear Security Administration is setting up an advanced network that can verify an attacker’s identity.