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'Custody' doesn鈥檛 skimp on the ordeal of the child in a custody battleXavier Legrand鈥檚 intense debut feature, 'Custody,'聽at times presents people more as symbols than as individuals.
Top Picks: Spotify's 'Songs to Sing in the Car,' PBS's 'Wonders of Mexico,' and moreThe NPR podcast 'Planet Money' makes economic news easy to understand, the movie 'The Forgiven' stars Forest Whitaker as Desmond Tutu, and more top picks.
In a WordWhy we dread the deadlineDeadline聽offers a rare case in which the popular etymology of a word turns out to be accurate. Originally it was a line that promised death if you went over it.
Puppy love, it鈥檚 notA Labrador retriever provides a couple with a lesson in listening and love.
First LookMobile food banks roll through rural US transforming food desertsTraveling to distant grocery stores and paying for groceries can be extremely difficult for the disabled, aging, and poor living in isolated areas. Mobile pantries play an essential role in combatting food insecurity in rural counties 鈥� providing both food and hope.聽
With paint and patchwork, artists offer a new perspective on immigrationAs the immigration debate charges forward, artists are offering a different vantage point. Art provides a powerful and insightful 鈥� and safe 鈥� space to explore a topic as charged as immigration.聽
First LookStreaming continues its dominance as Netflix breaks HBO's 17-year Emmys streakBoth traditional and streaming distributors are no longer able to find a "core" audience, but the proliferation of streaming has allowed for more niche programming, appealing to "hard-core" audiences.聽
'Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti' chronicles Gauguin鈥檚 desire to see a new wayIt鈥檚 a perplexing, fascinating, maddening movie, not quite like any other film biography of a famous painter.
'Shock and Awe' is a rote piece of workThe movie, which proves聽yet again that righteousness does not in itself make for a good film,聽depicts the work of the聽Knight Ridder journalists who worked in the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War.
First LookHow food deliveries could change lunchtime at schoolAcross the country, more food catering programs are making it easier for students to enjoy healthy lunches at school and easing the stress of packing lunches on parents by providing alternatives to what is offered at the cafeteria.聽
Top Picks: PBS鈥檚 'No Passport Required,' 'Oh Lucy!' on DVD and Blu-ray, and moreMake sure your car is ready for those summer road trips with the app聽Drivvo, the podcast 'American聽Innovations'聽details the stories of the people behind the discoveries that are still influencing our lives today, and more top picks.
What are you watching? Readers choose their favorite sitcomsMonitor TV and movie fans share what they've been watching lately.
'Sorry to Bother You' eventually loses its way in a welter of surrealityThere鈥檚 a promising satirical idea embedded in 'Sorry to Bother You,' but the writer-director, Boots Riley, doesn鈥檛 quite know how to extricate it.
In a WordThe surprising vitality of one small wordA 1395 translation of the Bible demonstrates that the word 'sad'聽didn鈥檛 mean what it does now.聽
Our rocky road to rhododendronsAny way you looked at it, Plaza Lake meant adventure.
How streaming is saving the music businessThere has never been a more vast, diverse, and readily available body of music to explore. But聽how does a below-the-megastar-radar artist or band survive the new paradigm?
5 movies you should see this monthViewers will rejoice in the hopes of immigrants while watching 'En el S茅ptimo D铆a,' one of Monitor critic Peter Rainer's best movies of June.
'Three Identical Strangers' is a true story that could only be believed because it actually happenedIn 1980, through sheer coincidence, 19-year-olds Robert Shafran and Eddy Galland discovered they are identical twins separated at birth. When their story was trumpeted in the media, 19-year-old David Kellman saw the photos and realized he was their triplet.
'Leave No Trace' shows empathy for those on the fringes of societyBen Foster stars as Will, a war veteran and widower with post-traumatic stress disorder who has been living undercover with daughter Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) in a large public nature preserve in Portland, Ore.
Ry Cooder's 'The Prodigal Son,' the iScanner app, and more top picks聽The podcast 'Drawn' explores various aspects of animated movies and TV shows,聽biologist Lena (Natalie Portman) signs up for a mission into a mysterious anomaly at a meteor crash site in 'Annihilation,' and more top picks.