The New York Times Popular Movie

Churchill Downs, the cathedral of horse racing, turned into a horse graveyard at last year's Kentucky Derby; exploring the sport beneath the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sibil Fox Richardson

2014's best actors pair up in a series of intimate encounters.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Reese Witherspoon

Ingénues, icons, action heroes, divas and the world's next great comedy star: 13 actresses who gave the dreamiest performances of 2012.

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Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis

Her rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Britney Spears

In his short lifetime, J Dilla was a musician, producer and visionary who profoundly influenced rap and hip-hop. Given how prolific he was in his 32...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: J Dilla

The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen attracts tourists for its remains from the 1949 Chinese...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sen-Po Tung

In 2004, a culture war was brewing when the Super Bowl halftime show audience saw a white man expose a Black woman's breast for 9/16ths of a second....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Janet Jackson

2015's best actors lift off in a series of tributes to the ultimate Hollywood magic trick.

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Cast: Jacob Tremblay

Three men enter the new wild west of baby making, online forums where sperm donors connect with hopeful parents, but find themselves exchanging more...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steve Walker

Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Brad Pitt

Behind the gates of a palm-tree-lined fantasyland, three residents and one interloper at America’s largest retirement community strive to find...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dennis Dean

Doubling as a cartography of the ever-changing city, Bill Cunningham New York portrays the secluded pioneer of street fashion with grace and heart.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bill Cunningham

This year's great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.

Genre:

Cast: Javier Bardem

Horror films dominated the cultural conversation in 2017. From the surprise hit “Get Out” to the movie adaption of “It” to...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Nicole Kidman

This investigation into the layers of mass incarceration and its shaping of the modern black American family is seen through the eyes of a single...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sibil Fox Richardson

Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawai'i who became the first woman of color...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wendy Mink

The story of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, a millennial couple who stole over $3 billion in cryptocurrency before being caught by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast:

Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her”. This New York Times...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liz Day

She was arguably the greatest women's basketball player. She won three national trophies; she played in the ’76 Olympics; she was drafted to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lusia Harris