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  1. ‘Abigail’ Review: Horror by Numbers

    In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will there will be gore? You bet.

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    Alisha Weir stars in “Abigail” as a 12-year-old who’s snatched one night by a half-dozen genre types.
    Alisha Weir stars in “Abigail” as a 12-year-old who’s snatched one night by a half-dozen genre types.
    CreditBernard Walsh/Universal Pictures
  2. ‘We Grown Now’ Review: A Child’s Eye View

    Minhal Baig’s third feature follows two boys living in a public housing complex in Chicago as they cope by building their own dream worlds.

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    Blake Cameron James, left, and Gian Knight Ramirez in “We Grown Now,” set in Chicago.
    Blake Cameron James, left, and Gian Knight Ramirez in “We Grown Now,” set in Chicago.
    CreditDanielle Scruggs/Participant/Sony Pictures Classics
  1. ‘Stress Positions’ Review: It’s Giving Pandemonium

    The writer-director Theda Hammel’s biting, delirious quarantine comedy skewers white gay men in a world where fact, fiction and authentic experiences collide.

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    John Early in “Stress Positions,” directed by Theda Hammel.
    CreditNeon
  2. How They Pulled Off the Ending to ‘Civil War’

    The action thriller from Alex Garland concludes with an explosive sequence in the nation’s capital. A behind-the-scenes look at how it was done.

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    Kirsten Dunst, left, and Cailee Spaeny in “Civil War.”
    CreditMurray Close
  3. Participant, Maker of Films With Social Conscience, Calls It Quits

    The company had critical and commercial hits over two decades but never made money consistently and faced a challenging entertainment landscape.

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    Patricia Clarkson and Robert Downey Jr. in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” a Participant drama from 2005 that doubled as social commentary.
    CreditParticipant Media
  4. Review: ‘The Wiz’ Eases Back to Broadway

    Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original formula.

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    Kyle Ramar Freeman as the Lion, Nichelle Lewis as Dorothy, Phillip Johnson Richardson as the Tinman and Avery Wilson as the Scarecrow in “The Wiz” at the Marquis Theater in Manhattan.
    CreditRichard Termine for The New York Times
  5. A.I. Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them.

    Machine-learning technologies are being used in film restoration for new home video releases. But some viewers strongly dislike the results.

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    Credit20th Century Fox

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    ‘Man’s Castle’: Free Love, Hard Times

    Restored to its original length and screening at the Museum of Modern Art, this 1933 movie starring Spencer Tracy feels at once surprisingly frank and disquietingly coy.

    By J. Hoberman

     
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