Bob Mondello
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Movies
How the COVID lockdown affected how moves are made and seen
Americans spent much of the COVID lockdown inside their homes streaming movies in isolation. Five years on it is clear that COVID left its mark on how movies were made and consumed.
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Steven Soderbergh's 'Black Bag' doesn't need guns and stunts to deliver thrills
It takes a spy to catch a spy in Steven Soderbergh's thriller Black Bag. And if they're married and played by Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett, so much the better.
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In Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17', Robert Pattinson has excellent chemistry — with himself
Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho teams up with actor Robert Pattinson for a sci-fi satire about a man who signs up to be an "expendable:" His DNA can be reprinted, so he can die again and again.
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Arts & Life
5 years ago, movie theaters closed. NPR's movie critic looks back at COVID-19
The pandemic decimated the box office and the reshaped the moviegoing experience. NPR's movie critic, Bob Mondello, looks back on how his job changed during the early months of COVID-19.
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Movies
NPR's movie critic previews Hollywood's biggest night
It's Oscars weekend: Time to grab your ballot and mark your picks for Best Everything before Sunday night's Academy Awards telecast.
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The career of Gene Hackman, known as one of Hollywood's hardest working actors
Actor Gene Hackman, who played gritty lawmen in everything from The French Connection to Unforgiven, but also displayed comedic chops in Young Frankenstein and The Royal Tenenbaums, has died.
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Movies
There's still time to check out 'The Brutalist' and 'Conclave' before the Oscars
After the BAFTAS, more people might be interested in checking out Conclave and The Brutalist - or learning enough about them to fill out Oscar ballots.
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Movies
Movie Watch: Six spring movies to get excited about
A selective preview of the blockbusters, comedies, biopics and adventures Hollywood has in store for cinema-goers as the weather warms.
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Arts & Life
The Kennedy Center's history was, until now, marked by cooperation and independence
Proposed in 1955 by President Dwight Eisenhower and championed by the arts enthusiast whose name it would ultimately bear, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has a storied history.
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Politics
President Trump names himself chairman of the Kennedy Center
President Trump has fired several Board Members at Washington DC's John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and indicated that he's naming himself chairman.
