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'Baby Driver' Follows Criminal Who Wants Out Of The Game

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with director Edgar Wright and Joe Loya, Wright's technical consultant, about the new movie, Baby Driver, which is about a getaway driver who wants out of the game.

'Baby Driver' Follows Criminal Who Wants Out Of The Game

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Sam Elliott On Career Longevity, Playing Tough And His Iconic Role In 'Lebowski'

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Elliott says that being selective about the roles he takes has helped him maintain his acting career for nearly 50 years. He plays an aging actor with a stalled career in the new film, The Hero.

Sam Elliott On Career Longevity, Playing Tough And His Iconic Role In 'Lebowski'

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'Baby Driver' Is An Action-Packed, Elegant Joyride

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Director Edgar Wright rejects computer-generated unreality and instead focuses on breathtaking driving in his new heist thriller. Critic David Edelstein says the result is terrifically entertaining.

'Baby Driver' Is An Action-Packed, Elegant Joyride

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Documentary Giant Albert Maysles' Last Film, 'In Transit,' Is Still In Limbo

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Documentary Giant Albert Maysles' Last Film, 'In Transit,' Is Still In Limbo

Before he died, Maysles (who also made Grey Gardens) said In Transit was his "dream film." But questions about who owns the rights has made it difficult to see.

Documentary Giant Albert Maysles' Last Film, 'In Transit,' Is Still In Limbo

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In Ambitious 'Okja,' A Teen Attempts To Save Her Super Pig From Slaughter

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You'll root for 13-year-old Mija at every step of this new Netflix film. And Okja, the huge, genetically modified pig, is among the most touching and realistic computer-generated characters ever made.

In Ambitious 'Okja,' A Teen Attempts To Save Her Super Pig From Slaughter

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Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier Travels Through The Movies

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One of the greatest French filmmakers alive, Bertrand Tavernier, has turned his attention to French movies with a new, personal documentary called My Journey Through French Cinema.

Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier Travels Through The Movies

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Unconscious Prejudice Meets Real-World Horror In 'The Exception'

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Unconscious Prejudice Meets Real-World Horror In 'The Exception'

David Leveaux's new film follows exiled German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II as he realizes that the new Germany of National Socialism has nothing at all in common with the Germany of his memories.

Unconscious Prejudice Meets Real-World Horror In 'The Exception'

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Garish Melodrama Becomes Universal Tragedy 'The Beguiled'

Sofia Coppola has taken a 1971 Southern Gothic psychodrama directed by a man and remade it from a female perspective — and the result is powerful.

Garish Melodrama Becomes Universal Tragedy 'The Beguiled'

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'Big Sick' Creators Nanjiani And Gordon On Turning Their Courtship Into A Movie

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'Big Sick' Creators Nanjiani And Gordon On Turning Their Courtship Into A Movie

In Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon's new rom-com, girl meets boy, girl contracts a mysterious illness and boy's Pakistani parents struggle to accept the relationship.

'Big Sick' Creators Nanjiani And Gordon On Turning Their Courtship Into A Movie

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