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Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. Baker accepted the prize with his movie’s star, Mikey Madison, watching in the audience at the Cannes closing ceremony Saturday.

Mason Disick is ready to keep up with his brand-new car—when he gets one, eventually. After all, as Scott Disick revealed in a rare update about his oldest son with ex Kourtney Kardashian, their

Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” won the Fipresci award at Cannes.  The jury of the International Federation of Film Critics called it “a courageous story set in modern-day Iran that deals with the conflict between tradition and progress, depicted in a very powerful and imaginative way.”  Following a rapturous screening and 2024 […]

Harrison Butker only spoke for 20 minutes, but the world has been talking about what he said for weeks. Takes on the Kansas City Chiefs kicker's May 11 commencement address at Benedictine

It’s not only because of its similar time frame that Boris Lojkine’s hurtling, headlong social-issues drama “The Story of Souleymane” recalls “Two Days, One Night” by the Dardenne brothers. Lojkine’s film, which was awarded the jury prize and a well-deserved best actor award in the Un Certain Regard competition in Cannes, is similarly invested in […]

NEW YORK — Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat, Masha, has died at 68. Carr died of cancer Thursday, according to an announcement from his publisher, Little, Brown and Company. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] A native of Manhattan, Caleb Carr was born into literary and cultural history.