The New York Times Popular Movie

In 2004, a culture war was brewing when the Super Bowl halftime show audience saw a white man expose a Black woman's breast for 9/16ths of a second....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Janet Jackson

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sibil Fox Richardson

The childhood, adolescence, and incredible adult years of Al Hirschfeld, celebrated creator of thousands of line drawings of famous people - many in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Al Hirschfeld

2014's best actors pair up in a series of intimate encounters.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Reese Witherspoon

Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Brad Pitt

Three men enter the new wild west of baby making, online forums where sperm donors connect with hopeful parents, but find themselves exchanging more...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steve Walker

Horror films dominated the cultural conversation in 2017. From the surprise hit “Get Out” to the movie adaption of “It” to...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Nicole Kidman

For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Cate Blanchett

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln's youngest son is laid to rest. That night, Lincoln visits his son's crypt, a chorus of ghosts narrating their brief...

Genre: History

Cast: Keaton Nigel Cooke

Ingénues, icons, action heroes, divas and the world's next great comedy star: 13 actresses who gave the dreamiest performances of 2012.

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Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis

An inside look at Louis C.K.’s public downfall and surprising return to the stage. Featuring interviews with three women -- Jen Kirkman, Abby...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jen Kirkman

Elon Musk, the world's richest person, has claimed since 2015 that, for Tesla, technology for self-driving cars is a "solved problem," and made...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elon Musk

The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen attracts tourists for its remains from the 1949 Chinese...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sen-Po Tung

She was arguably the greatest women's basketball player. She won three national trophies; she played in the ’76 Olympics; she was drafted to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lusia Harris

Her rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Britney Spears

Ten families read letters from their loved ones killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in this powerful and moving HBO documentary by Oscar and Emmy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lloyd Byers

Behind the gates of a palm-tree-lined fantasyland, three residents and one interloper at America’s largest retirement community strive to find...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dennis Dean

2015's best actors lift off in a series of tributes to the ultimate Hollywood magic trick.

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Cast: Jacob Tremblay

This investigation into the layers of mass incarceration and its shaping of the modern black American family is seen through the eyes of a single...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sibil Fox Richardson

Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Judith Helfand