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Willem Dafoe in The Man In My Basement.
CHILLING

Willem Dafoe Is Cinema’s Best—and Most Terrifying—Actor

‘The Man in My Basement’ is a major spotlight for Dafoe at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Nick Schager

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WILLPOWER

Willem Dafoe Rips Trump Question: ‘You Gotta Be Kidding Me’

The “Nosferatu” and “Poor Things” star previously gave a pointed answer about American politics in the MAGA era.

Harry Thompson

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MACHO

He Made ‘The Warriors.’ Now He’s Back—Guns Blazing.

The filmmaker who produced “Alien” and pioneered the buddy-cop film with “48 Hours” talks to Nick Schager about his new Western and why he’s not ready to hang it up yet.

Nick Schager

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IN CONVERSATION

Robert Eggers: ‘I Need to Restrategize’ After ‘The Northman’

The acclaimed filmmaker behind “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse” reflects on the box-office performance of his Viking saga and says he has no interest in going the Marvel route.

Nick Schager

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EDGE OF DARKNESS

‘Nightmare Alley’ Is One Bloated Hollywood Freak Show

The latest from Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro stars Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett as two sexy swindlers navigating Depression-era America.

Nick Schager

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ENTER THE MULTIVERSE

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’: MCU’s Best Spidey Movie by a Mile

The third installment in Marvel’s “Spider-Man” reboot sees Tom Holland’s webslinger join forces with familiar friends and square off against some past enemies.

Nick Schager

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FANTASY

Inside the Most Bonkers Movie Sex Scene of the Year

Robert Eggers (“The Witch”) opens up to Marlow Stern about his brilliant new film “The Lighthouse,” and that batshit-insane mermaid sequence. [Warning: Spoilers]

Marlow Stern

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IN CONVERSATION

Edward Norton: Trump Is an ‘Insane Clown Charlatan’

The writer/director/star of the compelling noir “Motherless Brooklyn” opens up about his new film, why people are wrong about Netflix, and America’s love affair with corruption.

Nick Schager

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WE ALL GO A LITTLE MAD SOMETIMES

Robert Pattinson Loses His Damn Mind in ‘The Lighthouse’

Filmmaker Robert Eggers’ (‘The Witch’) latest, which premiered at Cannes, pits Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson against one another as two very different 17th-century seamen.

Richard Porton

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MUST-SEE

The Breakout Indie Ready to Take the Oscars by Storm

Baker’s latest exploration of dispossessed hustlers on the fringes of society is one of the must-sees of the year—and it’s already drawing Oscars buzz.

Billy Gray

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MAVERICK

How the Wooster Group Changed Theater

Elizabeth LeCompte, much-feted director of the Wooster Group, on her life at the apex of the avant-garde—and reimagining a legendary moment in ’70s feminism.

Tim Teeman

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