Arts and entertainment news from Guardian US
Arts
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Late-night hosts reflect on Trump’s insistence on talking about anything other than the coronavirus as hospitalizations surge -
From the Women’s March to #MeToo, Not Done: Women Remaking America recalls some of the loudest inflection points and tensions of the women’s movement since Trump’s election
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The auteur’s bold and brutal 2000 adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr’s cultish novel about addiction remains an indelible and shocking act of provocation -
The US comedian and TV host on his small-screen highlights, from cringe-inducing chatshows to a psychedelic animation that inspired his own ‘hell ride’ of a series -
The Kazakh American Association has released a letter on social media accusing Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest Borat film of ‘justifying harassment’
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The latest in our series of writers highlighting underappreciated films is a captivating and prescient drama with a never-better Bette Davis -
Continuing our series of writers discussing underseen movies is a layered Georgian drama about a woman leaving her husband -
The latest in our series of writers highlighting under-appreciated films is a recommendation for a compassionate Mexican documentary
People
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As she releases a box set of her earliest recordings, in a rare interview Mitchell talks about life before fame, the correct way to sing her songs – and her long struggle to walk and talk again after an aneurysm -
In a new book, Hollywood’s ‘easy-livin’ superstar bares all about his route to the top. Here are some choice nuggets of McConna-sense -
The big picture
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The much-loved British caper starring Alec Guinness is being reissued, 65 years on, fully restored from the original negative. It was shot at Ealing Studios and around King’s Cross in London, where photographers captured the stars relaxing on set
Reviews
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A moneyed couple, a seductive stranger, a murder ... HBO’s latest series has all the usual thriller hallmarks, but it is its stellar performances that make it truly gripping -
An academic argues that the discipline of history was used to defend empire and imperialism in a vital, if flawed, study -
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3 out of 5 stars.
Music Girlhood: Girlhood – breezy, 90s-tinged electropop
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Film Honest Thief – low-stakes thriller
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4 out of 5 stars.
Music Ariana Grande: Positions – pop royalty cleans up the White House
4 out of 5 stars.
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Pictures & video
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Four decades of work by the Irish photographer feature in a new photobook. His dignified images, according to his former editor Colm Tóibín, offer ‘a hesitant window into the soul’
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Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine review – Trump lip-syncer ratchets up the hysteria
4 out of 5 stars.