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Photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, shown in Mariupol on Feb, 24, 2022, was part of the team who worked on the documentary, 20 Days in Mariupol. Mstyslav Chernov/AP Photo hide caption

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'We need to record everything': This team stayed behind in a Ukrainian war zone

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Nicolas Cage in Dream Scenario. A24 hide caption

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Nicolas Cage becomes Frumpy Krueger in 'Dream Scenario'

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Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi are Priscilla and Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola's new film. A24 hide caption

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Sofia Coppola imagines Priscilla's teen years, living at Graceland with Elvis

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Greta Lee stars as a playwright caught between her American husband and her Korean childhood sweetheart in Past Lives. A24 hide caption

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As a kid, Greta Lee identified with Val Kilmer — now, she imagines 'Past Lives'

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Niousha Noor plays Shireen, the woman based on Maryam Keshavarz's own mother, in The Persian Version. Sony Pictures Classics hide caption

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Banned in Iran, a filmmaker finds inspiration in her mother for 'The Persian Version'

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Bethann Hardison's Invisible Beauty. Magnolia Pictures/Bruce Weber courtesy of Magnolia Pictures/Magnolia Pictures hide caption

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James Franco, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini and Seth Rogen in Freaks and Geeks, left, and Issa Rae in Barbie. Getty Images / Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption

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From 'Freaks and Geeks' to 'Barbie,' this casting director decides who gets on-screen

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Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is the top grossing movie of 2023, generating more than $1.3 billion at the international box office so far. Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption

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'Barbie' music producer Mark Ronson opens up about the film's 'bespoke' sound

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Helen Mirren, Rami Heuberger, Lior Ashkenazi and Dvir Benedek in Bleecker Street/ShivHans Pictures' Golda. The movie, which follows Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir through the 1973 Yom Kippur War, hits theaters Friday. Sean Gleason hide caption

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Sean Gleason

'Golda' depicts a key moment in Israeli history. Its director sees parallels to today

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Cillian Murphy plays physicist Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's new film. Universal hide caption

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'Like it or not, we live in Oppenheimer's world,' says director Christopher Nolan

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Kansas City Monarchs pitching great Satchel Paige warms up at New York's Yankee Stadium Aug. 2, 1942 for a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars. Matty Zimmerman/AP hide caption

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The Negro League revolutionized baseball – MLB's new rules are part of its legacy

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Intersex activists Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel and River Gallo share their stories in the documentary Every Body. Focus Features hide caption

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For the intersex community, 'Every Body' exists on a spectrum

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Laura Dern, right, and her mother Diane Ladd have adapted a series of their conversations into the new book Honey, Baby, Mine. They are pictured above in Los Angeles in 2015. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP hide caption

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Thinking she had just months to live, Laura Dern's mother 'spilled the beans'

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Concept art for Disney and Pixar's Elemental by the director Peter Sohn. Pixar hide caption

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Earth, air, fire, water — and family — are all 'Elemental' for Pixar's Peter Sohn

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Grammy Award-winning musicians Marcy Marxer and Cathy Fink sing about the unexpected humor they encountered during Marxer's seven-year fight with breast cancer in the concert film, All Wigged Out. Todd Rosenberg/Community Music Inc. hide caption

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'All Wigged Out' is about fighting cancer with humor and humanity

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a writer whose husband hates the novel she's working on in You Hurt My Feelings. Jeong Park /A24 hide caption

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus recalls the first laugh she got — and the ER trip that followed

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Psychedelic freedom with Tonya Mosley; plus, 'Monica' and ambiguous apologies

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Joel Edgerton plays a horticulturist with a secret past as a white nationalist in Master Gardener. Magnolia Pictures hide caption

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Actor Joel Edgerton avoids conflict in real life, but embraces it on-screen

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Billy Crudup plays a salesman marketing timeshares on the moon in the futuristic series Hello Tomorrow! Apple TV hide caption

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From 'Almost Famous' to definitely famous, Billy Crudup is enjoying his new TV roles

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