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Still from Andrew Dominik's "Blonde." (Courtesy Netflix)

Marilyn Monroe biopic 'Blonde' is a 166-minute death knell of dehumanization

Based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, director Andrew Dominik’s film for Netflix is a mostly fictionalized meditation on the idea of Monroe. "It’s a horror movie about objectification,...

Gossip and 'Spitgate' can't save the very boring 'Don't Worry Darling'

Handsomely mounted and hollow, director Olivia Wilde's sophomore film stars the ferociously talented Florence Pugh as a happy housewife in an ersatz 1950s suburban utopia somewhere way out in the...

'Moonage Daydream' is a swirling, maximalist mosaic of Bowie's alter egos

Director Brett Morgen's film is about the many alter egos and incarnations of the Bowie persona as invented by a dazzlingly creative boy from postwar Brixton who changed rock music...

8 New England film festivals to check out this fall

This fall marks several significant transitions in New England's film exhibition scene, as many return after scaled-back pandemic programming. Film critic Erin Trahan recommends the must-see screenings of the season.

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Marilyn Monroe biopic 'Blonde' is a 166-minute death knell of dehumanization

Gossip and 'Spitgate' can't save the very boring 'Don't Worry Darling'

'Moonage Daydream' is a swirling, maximalist mosaic of Bowie's alter egos

8 New England film festivals to check out this fall

Coolidge Corner Theatre is hosting 'Midnight Movies 101.' We have your syllabus

'Three Thousand Years of Longing' is a cerebral fantasia that lacks heart

Klutzy, dopey and still relevant, 'Dirty Dancing' returns to the Somerville Theatre

Film quietly resumes at the MFA with the return of the Boston French Film Festival

Irreverent pop culture and history join forces at the reopened Emily Dickinson Museum

Film critic Sean Burns reflects on Spielberg's masterpiece 'E.T.' 40 years on

Three films depicting the 2018 Thai cave rescue compete for attention

B.J. Novak on 'The Office,' Boston and his new film 'Vengeance'

1991 love story 'Mississippi Masala' returns to the screen at Coolidge Corner

West Newton Cinema may become nonprofit center to support community arts

Jordan Peele's 'Nope' is a rollicking alien invasion adventure

Melodrama 'Both Sides of the Blade' is about the battles between our bodies and our minds

The Brattle encourages viewers to get 'Lost in America' with film series

Less concerned with facts, 'Elvis' biopic focuses on what the singer meant to the world

'Hit the Road' starts as a comedic road trip film but becomes something more

The Brattle pays tribute to actor Ray Liotta with 'Something Wild' screening