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    Lauryn Hill onstage in Newark on Tuesday. Her current tour celebrates the 25th anniversary of her blockbuster album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”
    CreditMaansi Srivastava/The New York Times
    Critic’s Notebook

    In Praise of the Ever-Evolving Lauryn Hill

    Celebrating the 25th anniversary of “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” as well as her legacy with the Fugees, the singer and rapper reveled in the power of reinvention.

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      A scene from the 1978 John Carpenter film, “Halloween.”
      CreditCompass International Pictures

      25 Classic Horror Movies to Stream

      From silent monsters to digital-age demons, these scary-movie cornerstones are available to scream — sorry, stream.

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    Clockwise from top left: Jake Gyllenhaal in “Donnie Darko,” Taylor Lautner in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” Harry Styles in “Dunkirk” and Tom Hiddleston in “Crimson Peak.”
    CreditClockwise from top left: Dale Robinette/Newmarket Films; Kimberley French/Summit Entertainment; Melinda Sue Gordon/Warner Bros.; Kerry Hayes/Universal Pictures

    As Movie Theaters Embrace Swift, One Showcases Her Exes

    In addition to “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” a Milwaukee theater is programming films that feature some of her starry boyfriends.

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    Four Osage sisters (played by, from left, JaNae Collins, Lily Gladstone, Cara Jade Myers and Jillian Dion) were targeted for their oil rights.
    CreditMelinda Sue Gordon/Apple Original Films

    What to Know About ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: A Guide to the Osage Murders

    Martin Scorsese’s epic traces a real plot by white men to kill dozens of Native Americans who held oil rights in 1920s Oklahoma. Here is the back story.

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  3. The Playlist
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    The Rolling Stones celebrate the release of their new album, “Hackney Diamonds,” onstage in New York on Thursday night.
    CreditKevin Mazur/Getty Images for the Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones’ Ragged Plea, and 8 More New Songs

    Hear tracks by Kali Uchis, Helena Deland, Olof Dreijer and others.

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    The choreographer and dancer Gregory Maqoma, right, in “Broken Chord” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From left, Nokuthula Magubane, Avuya Ngcaweni, Tshegofatso Khunwane and Luvo Rasemeni.
    CreditJulieta Cervantes

    Review: An African Choir’s Disillusioning Journey to the West

    Gregory Maqoma and Thuthuka Sibisi’s “Broken Chord” considers the 19th-century tour of a group of South African singers to England and North America.

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  5. Critic’s Notebook
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    From left, Anna Faris, Eddie Griffin and Queen Latifah in “Scary Movie 3.”
    CreditRob McEwan/Miramax Films

    ‘Scary Movie 3’ at 20: Still Kills

    The horror parody’s threequel remains the smartest dumb movie of its era.

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    In the short time since the end of her conservatorship, Britney Spears has gotten married and divorced, was featured on two songs and gotten a lot of attention for her Instagram account.
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    Britney Spears, From the Conservatorship’s Demise to ‘The Woman in Me’

    Before the pop star releases her memoir next week, here’s a look back at her life since the guardianship controlling her affairs was terminated in 2021.

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  2. Critic’s Pick
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    David Robertson, left, leading the New York Philharmonic in the U.S. premiere of Elena Firsova’s Piano Concerto, featuring Yefim Bronfman as the soloist.
    CreditBrandon Patoc

    Review: The Philharmonic Welcomes Back an Old Friend

    David Robertson returned to the podium to lead the orchestra’s first in a series of performances to celebrate the centennial of Gyorgy Ligeti’s birth.

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    Kitty Green on the “Royal Hotel” set. “I guess I like to make films about things I’m afraid of,” she said.
    CreditSee Saw Films

    A Filmmaker’s Fraught Specialty: Women at Work and the Men Who Scare Them

    Kitty Green’s movies, “The Assistant” and now “The Royal Hotel,” address gender dynamics in familiar, but menacing, environments.

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    The choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan and the dancer Rachel Poirier, in Dingle, a remote spot on the southwest coast of Ireland.
    CreditFinbarr O'Reilly for The New York Times

    Movement and Memory: Dance Love and Dance Rejection in Ireland

    Michael Keegan-Dolan has collaborated with his partner Rachel Poirier on “How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons,” coming to St. Ann’s Warehouse.

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    Maryam Keshavarz on the set of “The Persian Version,” her semi-autobiographical dramedy that won an audience award at Sundance.
    CreditYiget Eken/Sony Pictures Classics

    ‘The Persian Version’ Director Has Always Lived in the In-Between

    In her new film, Maryam Keshavarz finds both gravity and levity in the struggle to reconcile her Iranian heritage and her life in the United States.

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  5. ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ and TV History

    Brie Larson plays the fictional host of a 1950s cooking show in this period drama. But the story is inspired by the real TV homemakers who flourished back then.

    By Annie Berke

     
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  7. Halloween Is Tricky for Actors on Strike

    The SAG-AFTRA union told its members not to dress as characters from major productions and post pictures, which could be seen as promoting the work of companies they are negotiating with.

    By Christine Hauser

     
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  9. The Best of Late Night This Week

    The late night hosts had a glut of news to discuss this week, including House Republicans’ struggle to find a new speaker and Sidney Powell pleading guilty in the Georgia election interference case. Here’s what the hosts had to say.

    By Trish Bendix

     
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