56 h. ago Review | With NPR under threat, a colorful new history shows why it matters

Review | With NPR under threat, a colorful new history shows why it matters  The Washington Post

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6 d. ago A young man's homecoming sets off erotic shockwaves in this unsettling French thriller

Misericordia is one of the most surprising films our critic's seen this year. It focuses on a man who returns to his small village for a funeral — only to become enmeshed in countless entanglements.

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1 week ago The 'Severance' finale asks: How far would your innie go for your outie?

This season of the Apple TV+ show has found new ways to explore subjugation. Next season, we need answers about logistics.

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1 week ago 'The Alto Knights' is a mob drama with a double dose of De Niro and ... not much else

Robert De Niro plays rival mob bosses in a new biographical crime drama. But while it's fun to watch De Niro argue with himself, The Alto Knights ultimately feels dubious and derivative.

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2 w. ago Karen Russell's 'The Antidote' is an American epic — and well worth the wait

Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel in nearly 15 years. It follows a "Prairie Witch" in Dust Bowl-era Nebraska.

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2 w. ago A police officer investigates her own sister's disappearance in 'Long Bright River'

Set in a Philadelphia neighborhood that's been ravaged by opioids, Amanda Seyfried stars in this heartfelt Peacock series that centers wounded communities and families.

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2 w. ago 'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' is Stephen Graham Jones' horror masterpiece

The prose is gorgeous and the plot is complex. The author of The Only Good Indians returns again with a spellbinding yarn about one of the bloodiest, most significant parts of the nation's history.

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2 w. ago There's a lot to unpack in 'Black Bag' — a witty, sexy spy thriller

Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender play a high-ranking spy couple in Steven Soderbergh's new film. Black Bag offers Bond-style globe-trotting intrigue and marital dramedy.

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3 w. ago RFK says most vaccine advisers have conflicts of interest. A report shows they don't

The Health Secretary's assertion inaccurately characterizes the 2009 government report he cites, according to an NPR review and interviews with former committee members.

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3 w. ago ‘Cannot erase our history': Black Lives Matter Plaza honored before removal begins Monday

‘Cannot erase our history': Black Lives Matter Plaza honored before removal begins Monday  NBC Washington

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3 w. ago ‘Cannot erase our history': Black Lives Matter Plaza honored before removal begins

‘Cannot erase our history': Black Lives Matter Plaza honored before removal begins  NBC Washington

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3 w. ago D.C.'s Black Lives Matter mural will be erased. Look back at the iconic street painting

Over the past five years, Washington, D.C.'s iconic Black Lives Matter street painting has served as a powerful symbol of activism and a gathering place for joy and resistance.

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3 w. ago Live, die, repeat: Bong Joon Ho offers a farcical vision of the future in 'Mickey 17'

Robert Pattinson plays a space traveler who's repeatedly killed and resurrected in the name of scientific research in this otherworldly farce. It's Bong's first movie since his Oscar-winning Parasite.

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