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‘The Novelist’s Film’ shows how the artistic life is incomprehensible to the outsider.

My list of the best movies of 2022 is still in the works. In the meantime, I figured a list of my favorite movie performances this year would be easier to compile. I was wrong, of course — not just because there are always more actors than movies to choose…

A Chinese streaming platform has resumed distributing South Korean content after suspending it for nearly six years, South Korean officials said on Tuesday, in what Seoul called a sign of Beijing's readiness to improve ties.

Shortly before settling into "The Novelist's Film," a tense, absorbing and finally enchanting new movie written and directed by Hong Sang-soo, I couldn't help but cycle through a flurry of familiar questions: Will this one be in color or black-and-white? Will the protagonist be a writer, a painter, a filmmaker…

Hong Sang-soo’s effortlessly lo-fi approach brings out the gentle humanity in his story of an actor returning to her family

The film critic's year-end list of favorites has always struck me as a provisional undertaking at best, a flawed but essential attempt to bring some coherent framing to a year's worth of cinematic plenty. Any honest list, however comprehensive its sweep or authoritative its posture, is made in the full…