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'My Cousin Rachel' star Rachel Weisz freshens up the Gothic storyThe film, which is based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier, rises or falls on the casting of Rachel. With Weisz, it ascends to heights it might ordinarily never reach.
Top Picks: PBS's 'The Story of China,' the J酶rgen Emborg Quartet鈥檚 album 'What's Left?,' and more'Toni Erdmann' tells the story of a corporate strategist and her聽mischievous father who loves playing pranks on people, artist Thomas Dambo's 'The 6 Forgotten Giants' brings creatures out of fairy tales to life, and more top picks.
First Look鈥榃onder Woman鈥� stirs social media as most tweeted-about film of 2017The film depicting Amazonian heroine 鈥榃onder Woman鈥� has shattered Hollywood鈥檚 glass ceiling, simultaneously becoming the best-selling female-directed film in its opening weekend and聽the most tweeted-about film in 2017.聽
Verbal EnergyGoing off, leaving the furniture in chargeThe Monitor鈥檚 language columnist is reminded that bureaucracy is literally 鈥榬ule by desks.鈥�
Breakfasts that nourished my dreamsMy father and I would talk about the world, the theater, New York.
Latin music scores with chart-topping 鈥楧espacito鈥�When the song 'Despacito,' by singer Luis Fonsi and rapper Daddy Yankee,聽reached No. 1, it became the first mostly Spanish-language song to do so since the mid-1990s track 'Macarena,' by Los del R铆o.
Uneven 'Churchill' feels more like an expos茅 than a deep-dish psychological explorationBrian Cox is the latest to portray the legendary politician and the actor brings the private Churchill to the fore.聽The film becomes more about Churchill鈥檚 battle to conquer himself than about the Allies鈥� battle to defeat the Nazis.
'Wonder Woman' has a frisky, friendly spiritStars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine share a charming chemistry and director Patty Jenkins and screenwriter Allan Heinberg don't overdose on the violence, despite the film's World War I setting.
Top Picks: Chris Stapleton's 'From a Room: Volume 1,' 'Land of Mine' on DVD and Blu-ray, and moreIn PBS鈥檚 'The American Epic Sessions,' artists including Elton John, Jack White, and the band Alabama Shakes are challenged to create music using old technology, the聽NPS National Mall聽app could help you on a Washington, D.C., trip, and more.
Why female comic book fans are cheering for 'Wonder Woman''Wonder Woman,' which opens Friday, is on track to become the first female-helmed superhero blockbuster. It also features something harder to find than an invisible plane: a woman directing a big-budget action movie.
Verbal EnergyPublic memorials and private memorandumsA leaked memo and the controversy about Confederate memorials are both potentially monumental stories.
As curtain falls on the Met's 50th anniversary season at Lincoln Center, what's next for opera in America?As opera companies take stock this summer, many are looking beyond 2018 to find solutions to funding woes and negative public perceptions.
Then it struck me, and not very gentlyWhat kind of parent builds a nest on the ground 鈥� and then takes on all comers?
Literature, dance, art explore masculinityAcclaimed creators, including writer Paul Auster and artist Mark Bradford, are examining what it means to be a man in the modern world.
In intensely harrowing 'Afterimage,' Stalinist repression shatters artist鈥檚 lifeThe Polish avant-garde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski (Boguslaw Linda in a magisterial performance)聽is the subject of Andrzej Wajda鈥檚 final film.聽
With low expectations, 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales' is amusingSome of the movie gets oppressive, but聽Javier Bardem is scary-funny as the phantasmal pirate-hunter Captain Salazar and a stormy sea-parting finale is impressive.
'Baywatch' has a disposable plotThe film stars Dwayne Johnson, Kelly Rohrbach, and Zac Efron as a two-time Olympic gold-medal swimmer.聽
Top Picks: Joe Goddard's 'Electric Lines,' the REI Co-op Guide to National Parks app, and moreThe app聽BringFido lets you聽find a dog-friendly hotel as well as other area attractions, such as dog parks, trails, and beaches,聽movie fans should check out Isabelle Huppert's work in the film聽Things to Come, and more top picks.
Verbal EnergyWill France be all right in the center?After the French presidential election, a look at our vocabulary for describing political parties.
Return of the nativesA gardener finds that some plants are more at home than others.