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From Jeanne Dielman to The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover... Ahead of the release of the French gourmand romance The Taste of Things, we prepare 10 starters.

By the time the film arrives at its ending—either open-ended or quietly but ruthlessly definitive, depending on your interpretation—she has trained us to see details as gateways to stories, connection as seed for friendship.

Kelly Reichardt’s film is an intimate portrait of friendship and a provoking portrayal of life on the American frontier

Toby Jones, John Magaro and a debutante bovine character-actress lead this minutely detailed and convincing vision of America’s past

7:00 AM Most people measure a year with a calendar, but for movie and music buffs, a year is defined by its films and albums. With the COVID-19 pandemic creating a ripple effect of delays in the entertainment industry, the Grammys and the Academy Awards were pushed back to March and April, respectively. Time makes less and less sense during quarantine, so now seems as good a time as any to celebrate some of our favorites that flew under the radar in 2020.   Movies:  First Co...

Matthias Nareyek/WireImage; Jim Spellman/Getty Images Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt and actor John Magaro chat about their sweet drama exploring the friendship between two men in a remote trading post in the Oregon Territory, and why headshots dont matter much ­— except when casting a cow. Kelly Reichardts First Cowhas some of the things youd expect from a 19th century frontier drama, like brutish men fighting over limited resources. But at the center of her story is a pair of outside...

The 10 Best Films of 2020 David Sims © Charlie Le Maignan As we look back on film in 2020, maybe the strangest year in the medium’s history, the question will be whether it was an accelerant or an aberration. The coronavirus pandemic closed most movie theaters in the United States by mid-March, and though many reopened over the year, cinema attendance has dwindled. Has 2020 brought us closer to a new movie-watching reality, in which the at-home experience has supplanted the ...