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In<em> Drift, </em>Jacqueline (Cynthia Erivo) winds up in Greece after experiencing something terrible during a visit to her family in Liberia.

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A Liberian woman with a mysterious past dwells in limbo in 'Drift'

Cynthia Erivo stars as Jacqueline, a refugee who retreats from the world after experiencing tragedy at home. She befriends an American tour guide (Alia Shawkat) on the shore of an unnamed Greek isle.

February 16, 2024
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  • Justin Chang
Hirayama (Kōji<em> </em>Yakusho) sits with his niece Niko (Arisa Nakano) in <em>Perfect Days.</em>

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How to have 'Perfect Days' in a flawed world — this film embraces beauty all around

Shot entirely in Tokyo, this elegant fable is Wim Wenders' best fiction feature in decades. Although it flirts with glibness, Perfect Days asks questions about how to find joy in imperfect situations.

February 14, 2024
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  • John Powers
Actor Mark Ruffalo poses during his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2024.

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Mark Ruffalo shed the Hulk suit and had 'a blast' making 'Poor Things'

A bawdy, dark comedy set in Victorian times, Poor Things was a departure from Ruffalo's prior work in movies like Zodiac and Spotlight, and his Marvel role as the Incredible Hulk.

February 13, 2024
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  • Sam Briger
"I love being a mom, but I want to play somebody who pushes the story along," says actor Molly Ringwald. She plays Joanne Carson, ex-wife of Johnny Carson, in<em> Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.</em>

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Molly Ringwald breaks free from 'mom purgatory' in 'Feud: Capote vs. The Swans'

Ringwald represented teen angst in '80s films like Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. She says early success led to her being typecast, but adds, "I'm really happy with where I'm at right now."

February 12, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
Juliette Binoche prepares one elaborate dish after another in <em>The Taste of Things.</em>

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'The Taste of Things' is a sizzling romance and foodie feast — but don't go in hungry

Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel star as gourmets — and lovers — in a sumptuous film about cooking, eating and unhurried indulgence.

February 09, 2024
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  • Justin Chang
A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6, 2023.

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A year after Ohio derailment, U.S. freight trains remain largely unregulated

ProPublica reporter Topher Sanders has spent the last two years investigating America's aging freight train system. He says the FRA monitors "less than 1% of what's happening on the rails."

February 08, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
Mark Daley is the founder of <a href="https://thefosterparent.com/">The Foster Parent</a>, a national platform to connect interested families with foster organizations.

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A foster parent reflects on loving — and letting go of — the children in his care

Mark Daley always knew the goal was reunification — but he was still devastated when the young boys in his care returned to their birth family. He writes about the experience in his new memoir, Safe.

February 06, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
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'Barbie' music producer Mark Ronson opens up about the film's 'bespoke' sound

Ronson spent a year creating Barbie's music, and co-wrote the song, "I'm Just Ken," which has been nominated for an Oscar and a Grammy. Originally broadcast Sept. 7, 2023.

February 02, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
GPB News NPR

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'Like it or not, we live in Oppenheimer's world,' says director Christopher Nolan

Nolan's film, which is nominated for 13 Academy Awards, tells the story of Robert Oppenheimer, the man who spearheaded the development of the atomic bomb. Originally broadcast Aug. 14, 2023.

February 02, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
A group advocating AIDS research marches down Fifth Avenue during the Lesbian and Gay Pride parade in New York, June 26, 1983.

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'Blindspot' podcast offers a roadmap of social inequities during the AIDS crisis

Kai Wright's podcast revisits the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, focusing in particular on populations that are frequently overlooked — including the pediatric patients at Harlem Hospital.

February 01, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
Emma Stone has been nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Bella in <em>Poor Things.</em>

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How 'Poor Things' actor Emma Stone turns her anxiety into a 'superpower'

The Oscar-winning actor experienced her first panic attack at age 7. But Stone says acting helps with her anxiety, because it draws on her "big feelings" and forces her to live in the moment.

January 31, 2024
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  • Terry Gross
Crownsville patients work in the hospital's fields in the 1910s.

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What a Jim Crow-era asylum can teach us about mental health today

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness.

January 29, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
Austin Butler and Callum Turner in <em>Masters of the Air</em>

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Spielberg and Hanks take to the World War II skies in 'Masters of the Air'

This new Apple TV+ miniseries about Word War II bomber pilots captures one thrilling airborne mission after another — but also finds drama in briefing rooms, barracks and German POW camps.

January 27, 2024
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  • David Bianculli
Naíma Sentíes and Montserrat Marañon in <em>Tótem</em>.

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'Tótem' invites you to a family birthday party — but Death has RSVP'd, too

The action takes place all in one day, as 7-year-old Sol attends the birthday party of her father, who's dying of cancer. But Tótem isn't really a movie about death; it's about living.

January 25, 2024
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  • John Powers
Tracee Ellis Ross, shown here in Los Angeles in June 2022, plays a doctor in <em>American Fiction.</em> The film is up for five Academy Awards, including best picture.

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  • Movie Interviews

If the part isn't right, Tracee Ellis Ross says 'turn it into what you want it to be'

When it comes to Black women, Hollywood is "limited in its thinking" Ross says — so here's how she makes her roles her own.

January 24, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
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