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The shadowy puzzle-box pleasures of Chinese spy thriller Hidden Blade

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The best movie you didn’t see last year is finally out

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It’s best you know nothing about the new greatest movie of all time

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What the film Women Talking loses (and preserves) from the 2018 novel

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One Good Thing: A food memoir about love, grief, and lockdown

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One Good Thing: A new classic of country heartbreak

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This summer’s movies are all about love

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Fire of Love, about married volcanologists, is this summer’s must-see doc

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One Good Thing: A Danish drama lets its girlbosses fail

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The best movies of 2022 (so far) — and how to watch them

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One Good Thing: Two ’90s Asian films that capture the loneliness of modern life

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One Good Thing: Musician Ethel Cain nurses Gen-Z America’s broken heart

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One Good Thing: A French reality show with high-end homes and low-stakes drama

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One Good Thing: 107 minutes of Wall Street traders behaving badly

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Two Good Things: Sad kids’ movies about magical seals

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15 unmissable movies from this year’s Cannes

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One Good Thing: The Jane Campion film that captures spring euphoria

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One Good Thing: Watching the cherry blossoms in the end times

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Saving Face is a delightful queer rom-com — and a love letter to Asian moms

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One Good Thing: The cartoon dog who taught me how to be a dad

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One Good Thing: The Two Fat Ladies proved pleasure was for every body

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One Good Thing: Conversations with strangers, which I missed so much

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One Good Thing: Have you heard of this Shakespeare guy? Pretty good!

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One Good Thing: Les Mis is here to complicate your joy

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One Good Thing: Garlic, a perfect food

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One Good Thing: 32 years after its debut, Microsoft Solitaire is still a blissful time-waster

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Will this grim satire help you understand what’s happening in Ukraine? Kind of.

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