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Star seems to be an Oscar front-runner for her performance as a genius who makes beautiful music but leads an ugly life.

An icy-hot paradox of a film, and one of the year’s peak achievements, writer-director Todd Field’s “Tár” casts a gimlet eye on a fictional American orchestra conductor and composer, Lydia Tár, at the summit of her global fame. The view is glorious. It’s also more treacherous than she realizes.

Until recently, Todd Field, whose feature directorial debut is the acclaimed 2001 drama "In the Bedroom," hadn't made a film since its 2006 follow-up, the well-regarded "Little Children."

Cate Blanchett has played her share of formidable characters, rulers who could bring mere mortals to their knees with a single icy stare: Queen Elizabeth I in "Elizabeth," Galadriel in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the goddess Hela in "Thor: Ragnarok."

David O. Russell's star-studded 1930s mystery “Amsterdam" flopped and the children's book adaptation “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” debuted softly, allowing the horror thriller “Smile” to repeat atop the box office in US and Canada theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. Neither new release caught fire with moviegoers but the disappointment was…

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Cate Blanchett isn't just playing a classical music conductor in the new film “Tár," she is actually conducting a live orchestra of professional musicians

It's not until an hour into "Tár" that we see the title character — a classical conductor known the world over as Lydia Tár and played by an unimprovable Cate Blanchett — do what she was born to do. It's an astonishing performance nestled inside another: In one shot, Lydia…

As awards season starts, our expert reveals what the recent film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto tell us about the front runners for next year’s big film prizes in Los Angeles

With fall festivals coming to a close and with most of the big films having premiered, this year’s potential winners and losers are starting to take shape

Steven Spielberg was onstage at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre, talking about the End or, more precisely, how his new movie memory piece, "The Fabelmans," isn't quite the End or a signal that he's retiring, but simply an acknowledgment that the clock is ticking.