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  1. A Songwriter for Earth, Wind & Fire and ‘Friends’? That’s Just the Start.

    “The World According to Allee Willis” shines a light on a musical artist whose creative spirit wasn’t limited to one genre or even to music.

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    Allee Willis in a scene from Alexis Manya Spraic’s documentary about her.
    CreditBonnie Schiffman/Magnolia Pictures
    Documentary Lens
  2. The ‘Death Becomes Her’ Frenemies Take Their Youth Potion to Broadway

    The campy supernatural movie comes to Broadway as a big, bawdy musical starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard.

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    Megan Hilty, left, and Jennifer Simard at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, home of their new Broadway musical “Death Becomes Her.”
    CreditLanna Apisukh for The New York Times
  3. How a Director Who Dislikes Musicals Came to Make ‘Emilia Pérez’

    For the filmmaker Jacques Audiard, creating a movie musical meant learning the genre conventions from scratch.

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    “It’s a little pretentious to say, but maybe I had the pretension to try to make a musical that I would like from my perspective as a viewer,” Jacques Audiard said.
    CreditShanna Besson/Page 114, Why Not Productions, Pathé Films and France 2 Cinéma
  4. ‘Emilia Pérez’ Review: A Crime Boss Who Can Sing and Dance

    The star of Jacques Audiard’s showy new musical about a trans Mexican drug lord, Karla Sofía Gascón, adds soul to the melodrama. Zoe Saldaña also shines.

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    Karla Sofía Gascón, left, as the titular character of “Emilia Pérez,” with Zoe Saldaña as her lawyer.
    CreditPathé Films
  5. Why the Messy Cardinals of ‘Conclave’ Make for Great Memes

    Thanks to characters we recognize from reality TV, the Vatican intrigues have jumped from stuffy prestige drama to the social-media scrum.

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    Clockwise from top left: The cardinals played by Ralph Fiennes, Carlos Diehz and Lucian Msamati, and the nun played by Isabella Rossellini, have all been fodder for memes.
    CreditFocus Features
    Critic’s Notebook

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  6. Five International Movies to Stream Now

    This month’s picks include coming-of-age stories from India, Italy, Canada, Switzerland and Poland, in which children and teens learn truths about adulthood the hard way.

    By Devika Girish

     
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