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Long ago — well, it seems like a long time ago — I was a full-time movie critic who every December would name my 10 favorite movies of the year, along with a handful of runners-up. Because I’d typically seen close to a couple hundred films that year, it was an interesting exercise, though I always resisted calling it a 10-best list (how can you say what’s best without seeing everything?), or ranking my titles numerically. (I’ve always wondered — and envied — how some critics have so much clarity that they can differentiate the year’s seventh-best movie from the eighth-best.)

7 Home Improvements That Cost a Lot More in 2021 7 Home Improvements That Cost a Lot More in 2021 These projects will take a bigger bite out of your budget than in the recent past. Dmytro Zinkevych / Shutterstock.com Many of us have been spending a lot more time at home during the coronavirus pandemic, and that puts a magnifying glass on things we want to upgrade both inside and outside the house. For a variety of reasons — scarcity of materials, tariffs, rising wages, demand for sustainable products — many remodeling projects are costing significantly more now, according to HomeAdvisor, ...

12 Features That Can Make Your Home Sell Faster 12 Features That Can Make Your Home Sell Faster Homebuyers want these features most of all. Stephen Coburn / Shutterstock.com That’s great news for sellers right now, but this market won’t last forever. If you have your eye on selling in the future and plan to make improvements to your home, it’s always a good idea to focus on those features that are most in demand. For its 2021 What Home Buyers Really Want report, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) surveyed recent and prospective homebuyers to pinpoint features they deem ess...

From the art market to museums, here are our top stories from a year in lockdown. March 16, 2021 People wearing protective face masks outside the Louvre in Paris. Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images. The past year has been a whirlwind: wildfires raged in California, Donald Trump was impeached for a second time, protests against police violence erupted around the world, and an unheard of virus swept the planet, bringing life, as we knew it, to a standstill. As we look back on the one-year mark of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus pandem...