Bob Mondello
Stories
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Arts & Life
'The Color Purple' is the biggest Christmas Day opening since 2009
The Color Purple is now the second biggest Christmas Day opening in history — $18 million on day one of its release.
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National
First-time filmmaker Cord Jefferson's 'American Fiction' is both moving and hilarious
Jeffrey Wright plays a frustrated author who writes an preposterously stereotypical "Black" book as a joke, only to have it become a bestseller in the comedy American Fiction.
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Arts & Life
'Rustin' tells the story of the man who helped make the March on Washington possible
George C. Wolfe's biopic chronicles the work of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in planning an executing the historic 1963 March on Washington.
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Arts & Life
Paul Giamatti is a prep-school teacher stuck supervising students in 'The Holdovers'
Paul Giamatti plays a 1970s prep-school teacher reluctantly supervising students with nowhere to go for the Christmas holidays in Alexander Payne's dramedy, The Holdovers.
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Movies
There is no excuse to let 'Anatomy of a Fall' fall through the cracks
A novelist is accused of her husband's murder, and the only witness is their blind son in Justine Triet's Palme d'Or-winning film, Anatomy of a Fall.
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Arts & Life
'Carterland' puts a positive spin on an oft-disparaged presidency
Carterland depicts the one-term presidency of Jimmy Carter as an expansive and largely successful exercise in problem-solving.
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Arts & Life
Wonder where Hollywood's strikes are headed? Movies might offer a clue
Hollywood has churned out films that depict labor organizers as communists, and labor bosses as gangsters. So it should come as no surprise that real-life negotiations with the studios are so tricky.
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National
Some of the movies Hollywood has in store this fall
Even in a season strained by writers' and actors' strikes, Hollywood has a lot on its schedule before Thanksgiving.
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Food
Ice cream in Buenos Aires is more than a treat, it's a work of art
Everyone in Buenos Aires seems to be a fierce partisan when it comes to: soccer, cafes and ice cream parlors. The ice cream there is not just delicious — it's gorgeous.
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National
Review: 'Scrapper' is a sort of adolescent coming-of-age story turned upside down
In Scrapper, a plucky 12-year-old girl is living on her own, making rent money by stealing bicycles.