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In Mark Mylod's stylish satirical takedown of elitism, capitalistic excess and fetishized food culture, Ralph Fiennes delivers a fiendish turn as an egotistical chef whose restaurant occupies a remote island. As the film opens, a group of lucky diners board a boat to ferry them to what promises to be a culinary experience for the ages.

The broad factual contours of the story related in "She Said" are well known: In 2017, New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor published an explosive series of articles about film producer Harvey Weinstein, raising credible allegations that he engaged in serial sexual abuse and assault of actresses and employees over decades.

'She Said' outs Hollywood sexual assault history

Friday's openings: Puppet horror and a crazy cook

'Banshees of Inisherin': Irish friends who aren't

Auntie's presents: An evening with a pair of poets

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Sixty years later, Lee's 'Mockingbird' still sings

Paul Mescal can't always find the words to describe his acting process, given how internal that sort of thing tends to be, but he is glad to be asked about it. He dreads the day he stars in a project he isn't necessarily proud of, and whose dullness prompts inane questions from people interviewing him.

In "Armageddon Time," James Gray's evocative portrait of his early years growing up in Queens, Banks Repeta plays Paul Graff, a boy entering sixth grade in 1980, when punk rock, disco, rap, national politics and New York City itself were changing and sometimes converging with apocalyptic force.

From its frantic opening moments, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" announces its intentions. Princess Shuri (Letitia Wright) is desperately trying to save the life of her brother, King T'Challa (the late Chadwick Boseman), checking his vitals by way of Griot, her personal artificial intelligence aide, and worriedly making micro-adjustments until her mother, Ramonda (Angela Bassett), arrives to deliver the dreaded news: "Your brother is with the ancestors."

Blanchett glows as the ultra-flawed conductor 'Tár'

The Met: Live in HD revives Verdi's 'La Traviata'

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Watching the ensemble black comedy “The Estate,” written and directed by Dean Craig and co-starring Toni Collette, will no doubt draw comparison to another ensemble black comedy co-starring Toni Collette, “Knives Out,” which dwells in the same story milieu of money-hungry family members competing for a mention in a wealthy family member’s will. Of course, “Knives Out” is a twisty whodunit in the vein of Agatha Christie, and Craig’s film is merely an exploration of what depravities people might sink to in hopes of getting a bigger piece of the financial pie. Still, there are enough similarities between the two films, both rife with smarmy, unlikable characters, that one could become preoccupied in wondering why “Knives Out” works and why “The Estate” decidedly does not.

Godzilla and its mechatwin get ready to rumble

The entertainment industry has long-standing discomfort with the events surrounding the death of the 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was kidnapped and killed after being accused of whistling at a white woman in a grocery store while visiting relatives in Mississippi.