The New York Times Popular Movie

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....

genus: Documentary

cast: Janet Jackson

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...

genus: Documentary

cast: J Dilla

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

genus: Horror

cast: Brad Pitt

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Bill Cunningham

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...

genus: Documentary

cast: Britney Spears

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Sibil Fox Richardson

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Steve Walker

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney...

genus: Documentary

cast: Kris Bowers

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...

genus: Documentary

cast: Sen-Po Tung

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

genus: Romance

cast: Reese Witherspoon

The childhood, adolescence, and incredible adult years of Al Hirschfeld, celebrated creator of thousands of line drawings of famous people - many in...

genus: Documentary

cast: Al Hirschfeld

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Lusia Harris

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

genus: Documentary

cast: Dennis Dean

An inside look at Louis C.K.’s public downfall and surprising return to the stage. Featuring interviews with three women -- Jen Kirkman, Abby...

genus: Documentary

cast: Jen Kirkman

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

genus: Horror

cast: Nicole Kidman

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

For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers...

genus: Fantasy

cast: Cate Blanchett

Paul and Millie Cao lost their youth to the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Forty years later, they have become successful professionals in Southern...

genus: Documentary

cast: Chipaul Cao

As America's largest retirement community continues to expand, cracks, both literal and metaphysical, are suddenly opening beneath the senior utopia.

genus: Documentary

cast: Sarah Brewer

Elon Musk, the world's richest person, has claimed since 2015 that, for Tesla, technology for self-driving cars is a "solved problem," and made...

genus: Documentary

cast: Elon Musk