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It's 2025, and the future has finally caught up with Stephen King's 'Running Man'

Linda Holmes

King's 1982 novel was set in the year 2025, in a world with widespread poverty, mass surveillance, and giant corporations. The newest film version loses some of its critique.
'The Running Man,' a new 'Now You See Me,' and George Clooney are in theaters

Bob Mondello

Linda Holmes

And on Apple TV, a touching and surprisingly funny new documentary about the poet Andrea Gibson and their struggle with cancer.
'Sirāt' is a desert survival story — and one of the year's most gripping films

Justin Chang

Sirāt tells the story of a man searching for his lost daughter at a rave in the Sahara Desert. Though it carries echoes of earlier cinema, nothing about this film feels derivative or secondhand.
Arts & Culture

San Diego weekend arts events: Spock, noodles, clowns and doom metal

Julia Dixon Evans

This weekend in arts and culture in San Diego: Author & Punisher's industrial drone music; a new exhibit on race history at the Museum of Us; clown art at Woo Studios; Vietnamese food and art lessons with Thien Pham; Jessie Montgomery compositions at the Mingei; new work by Maybelle Reynoso and more.
'Blue Moon' pushed Ethan Hawke to his limit: 'That's a thrilling spot to be in'

Terry Gross

"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of playing lyricist Lorenz Hart. Hawke is also starring in the film Black Phone 2.
National

Tatsuya Nakadai, an icon of Japanese cinema, has died at 92

Alina Edwards

In a 2005 interview, the actor said that in his twenties, he was carrying the load of "everyone's masterpieces." He worked closely with directors including Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi.
The first 'Netflix House' is open — with virtual reality, mini-golf and lots of selfies

Neda Ulaby

The company's first permanent in-person space is a former Lord & Taylor department store in the King of Prussia Mall outside Philadelphia. Locations are on the way in Dallas and Las Vegas.
'Sentimental Value' is a family drama that lets everyone off the hook too easily

Justin Chang

Joachim Trier's drama centers on the complicated relationship between a filmmaker and his grown daughters. But for every perceptive moment in the film, there's another that feels coy, even complacent.
'Nuremberg' is full of big questions — and missed opportunities

Daniel Jonah Wolpert

The new film portrays Hitler's second-in-command, Hermann Goering, as a wily mastermind, sidestepping uncomfortable questions about how unexceptional evil can be.
National

James Vanderbilt's 'Nuremberg' explores the human horror in a Nazi leader's story

Leila Fadel

Olivia Hampton

James Vanderbilt's Nuremberg focuses on the relationship between the Nazis' number two Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) and Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek), the psychiatrist tasked with monitoring him.