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From a South African Slur to a Scathing Drama About Toxic Masculinity The new film “Moffie” examines the brainwashing of a generation of white men in the twilight of the apartheid regime. Oliver Hermanus, the “Moffie” director, said the drama is “really about shame and indoctrination.”Credit...Alexander Coggin for The New York Times April 7, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET “Mo-FFIES!” chant the soldiers, precisely lined up under a baking sun, as a screaming sergeant reviles two men reported to be lovers. “Mo-ffies! Mo-ffies! Mo-ffies!” The word is a homophobic slur in Afrikaans, and th...

Skip to main content Currently Reading New Movies to Watch This Week: Disney's 'Raya,' Amy Poehler's 'Moxie' and Eddie Murphy's Return Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail It’s a very different landscape this week than it was a year ago, just before the pandemic forced cinemas to close around the country. Still, with New York cinemas cautiously reopening this week and many other markets determined to bring moviegoing back, the studios and indie distributors alike are bringing many of their long-delayed releases onto screens, albeit in an entirely new way.  For contrasting examp...

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) Six past winners of the Golden Bear, the Berlinale’s top prize, Zoomed in at noon, European time, to announce that they had decided to award the 2021 Golden Bear to Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn. In a statement read by Nadav Lapid ( Synonyms, 2019), the jury, whose other members are Ildikó Enyedi ( On Body and Soul, 2017), Adina Pintilie ( Touch Me Not, 2018), Mohammad Rasoulof ( There Is No Evil, 2020), Gianfranco Rosi ( Fire at Sea, 2016), and Jasmila Žbanić ( Grbavica, 2006), explained that Jude’s film “captures on screen the ...

New Movies to Watch This Week: 'Nomadland,' 'I Care a Lot,' 'Test Pattern' Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The treasures of an extended Oscar season just keep on giving, as Venice Film Festival winner and award season favorite “Nomadland” finds its way to theaters — and Hulu subscribers. It’s a special film, about a woman (played by two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand) who pulls up stakes and travels the country by van, hitting theaters at a time when many people have been reexamining their own lives. So if there’s a safe way to see it, you’d be hard-pressed t...

Skip to main content Currently Reading New Movies to Watch This Week: 'Barb and Star,' 'Judas and the Black Messiah,' 'Minari' and 'The Mauritanian' Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail With the Super Bowl behind us and the Oscars looming (and a pandemic-dampened Valentine’s Day as a marketing peg), American distributors are releasing their most robust slate of new releases in months this weekend. Awards contenders “Judas and the Black Messiah” (about the FBI-sanctioned murder of Fred Hampton) and “Land” (starring and directed by Robin Wright) arrive in theaters, hot off...