One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in 'Drive My Car' by A.O. Scott

Through a staging of "Uncle Vanya," the director Ryusuke Hamaguchi creates an intimacy for his characters that lets the artifice of cinema fall away.

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'West Side Story' Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight by A.O. Scott

Steven Spielberg rediscovers the breathing, troubling essence of a classic, building a bold and current screen musical with no pretense to perfection.

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Tony Kushner, Oracle of the Upper West Side by A.O. Scott

The most important living American playwright has a number of new projects on the horizon " and plenty more to say about how to make and enjoy art in an era of ongoing turbulence.

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'In the Heights' Review: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities by A.O. Scott

Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical comes to the screen as an exuberant and heartfelt party, directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Anthony Ramos.

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What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies by A.O. Scott

Seven films that paint a portrait of America in all its contradictions, inconsistencies and outright delusions.

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'The United States vs. Billie Holiday' Review: Singing for Her Life by A.O. Scott

Lee Daniels's hectic biopic portrays the singer as a victim of abuse, addiction and government persecution.

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'The Little Things' Review: Good Old-Fashioned Police Work by A.O. Scott

Denzel Washington and Rami Malek play detectives on the trail of a serial killer in John Lee Hancock's vintage thriller.

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The Oscars Are a Mess. Let's Make Them Messier. by A.O. Scott

Nothing has been normal about the last year, including the movies. The academy shouldn't try to pretend otherwise. It should see this as an opportunity.

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'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' Review: All the Blues That's Fit to Sing by A.O. Scott

Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman star in a potent adaptation of August Wilson's play

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'The Forty-Year-Old Version' Review: Rapper's Delight by A.O. Scott

Radha Blank's film is an intimate, epic reckoning with age, ambition and everything else.

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'Hamilton' Review: You Say You Want a Revolution by A.O. Scott

The filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's founding-father Broadway musical arrives just in time " vital and more challenging than ever.

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What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? by A.O. Scott

Going online is one answer, but it's not so simple.

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Critic's Pick: 'High Flying Bird' Review: A Thrilling Dunk on Capitalism by A.O. Scott

The director Steven Soderbergh teams up with Tarell Alvin McCraney and André Holland to take on the contradictions of modern sports culture.

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An Appraisal: Carrie Fisher, a Princess, a Rebel and a Brave Comic Voice by A.O. Scott

She entered popular culture as a princess in peril and endures as something much more complicated and interesting.

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The Cinematic View From Telluride by A.O. Scott

The film festival over the Labor Day weekend is at once more relaxed and more intense than others.

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