‘The Girl on the Train’ Takes the Fast Track From Book to Screen
When Paula Hawkins’s novel became a meteoric best seller, its movie team suddenly had to catch up.
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Creditvia Nimoy Archive/CBS Spock: Half-Vulcan. Half-Human. All Outsider Role Model.
A documentary by Adam Nimoy explores how his father’s “Star Trek” character, Spock, provided inspiration to those who saw themselves as different.
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CreditArturo Vega, via Magnolia Pictures Danny Fields Loved Punk Rock. It Loved Him Back.
Two new documentaries spotlight this music manager, whose acts included the Stooges and the Ramones.
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CreditClement Pascal for The New York Times ‘American Honey’: Open Highways, Free Spirits
While shooting the director Andrea Arnold’s film, the cast and crew traveled together for nearly three months, from Oklahoma to North Dakota.
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Critic's Notebook
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CreditSony Pictures Classics At the New York Film Festival, a Defense of Human Dignity
This year’s lineup, in films like “13th,” “I, Daniel Blake” and “Toni Erdmann,” largely focuses on fights for recognition and self-determination.
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CreditNetflix Review: ‘13TH,’ the Journey From Shackles to Prison Bars
Ms. DuVernay makes a startling and powerful statement about the prison industrial complex and the history of black lives in post-Jim-Crow America.
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Credit20th Century Fox Film Corporation Review: In ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home,’ Chasing Grandpa’s Stories Down a Rabbit Hole
Tim Burton’s adaptation of the novel by Ransom Riggs describes the adventures of an adolescent who travels through time to prove his grandfather right.
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CreditLaurie Sparham/Bleecker Street Media Review: In ‘Denial,’ Confronting a Holocaust Revisionist in Court
The libel trial of a historian, brought by a Holocaust denier, is dramatized in this sober and methodical film. But the movie lacks an emotional flash point.
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Anatomy of a Scene
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CreditSam Emerson/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Antoine Fuqua Narrates a Scene From ‘The Magnificent Seven’
The director discusses an action sequence from the film.
