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He believes that people caught in the conflict miss leading a normal life. “People want it,” he said. “But we don’t have the leadership to take us there.”

The story draws directly from the life of whistleblower Edward Snowden and drops it into the lives of two women in an 11-year marriage: Roan (Lauren Hayes), a National Security Agency data analyst, and Nat (Jeunée Simon), a civil rights attorney.

My goal here is not to decry the classics, but to offer a few queer standards from genres that generally get underplayed around this time of year.

There is nothing like Tolstoy on the screen, not even Tolstoy on the page; Bondarchuk’s “War and Peace” is a window.

The show was able to combine a deeply literary text with the energetic airs of a musical theater production in a way that honored both traditions.

The two actors are rehearsing an original adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day.” The catch? They’re ninth- and 10th-graders in high school.

One of the most unfortunate aspects of the film is that Vega’s artistic choices are limited by the undeveloped characters that surround her.

While they may disagree on how the film is experienced, they seem to have found a genuine rallying point around the limitlessness of their protagonist.

“The Post” struggles to find a balance between the story it is really telling and its commitment to larger ideologies, such as history.

The book is a technological history of the efforts to create a typewriter suited to a character-based writing system.