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An eerie, smiling child wearing facepaint sits, head cocked to one side, at the back of a gloomy, dimly lit classroom. The classmates around him all sit with their heads on the tables in front of them.

The Best 2025 Horror Movies for Your Halloween Hangovers

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French New Wave Enthusiasts Will Be Breathless Over ‘Nouvelle Vague’

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I Tried to Find the Juke Joint From ‘Sinners,’ and I Don’t Recommend It

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A New Book Examines the ‘Yin and Yang’ of Tupac Shakur’s Life

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Why Do So Many People Think This East Bay Road Is Haunted?

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A white, attractive middle-aged woman wearing a white t-shirt and black leather jacket looks ahead blankly.

‘Hallow Road’ Builds an Escalating Nightmare to Scare Parents Everywhere

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In ‘The Royal We,’ Faith No More Co-Founder Tells All — But Skips His Band

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Still Thinking About the Louvre Heist? ‘The Mastermind’ Is Perfectly Timed

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The Not-So-Spooky Origins of ‘Ghost’ — and Why the Word Still Haunts Our Language

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A woman with a shaved head, wearing a traditional dress, stands in side profile in the room of a dimly lit house.

A Chamber-Piece Gut Punch of a Movie, ‘Bugonia’ Is Hard to Shake

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Book covers of: 'Looking for Tank Man' by Ha Jin; 'Bad Bad Girl' by Gish Jen; 'Big Kiss, Bye-Bye' by Claire Louise-Bennett; 'Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia: from Revolution to Autocracy' by Julia Ioffe; 'This Is the Only Kingdom' by Jaquira Díaz; 'The Rose Field: The Book of Dust, Volume 3' by Philip Pullman.

New Books This Week Dance Between Genres, Deserve Your Attention

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See Tessa Thompson in Deliciously Malicious Form in ‘Hedda’

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