Spanish director Oliver Laxe in Paris, Nov. 8, 2025. With the existential action thriller “Sirat,” set in the rave culture of Morocco, Laxe says that he was not out to shock, but that he is still haunted by one scene. (Maxime La/The New York Times) By BEN KENIGSBERG Psychoanalysis, Sufism, Andrei Tarkovsky, the Rolling Stones: These are some of the influences that informed the creation of “Sirat,” perhaps the year’s least describable and most terrifying film. Since its premie

In Watkins’ sprawling output of movies the unifying principles were an utmost distrust of authority and the threat of civic annihilation. (Instagram via icarusfilms_) By J. HOBERMAN Peter Watkins, a British filmmaker and artistic provocateur whose movies blurred the line between documentary and fiction, most powerfully in “The War Game,” his Oscar-winning 1965 evocation of a nuclear attack that the BBC deemed “too horrifying” to air, died Oct. 30 in Bourganeuf, France. He was

Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” was named album of the year and gathered four more awards at the 26th annual Latin Grammys. (Instagram via muchofficial) By JON PARELES Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” was named album of the year and gathered four more awards at the 26th annual Latin Grammys, which were broadcast Thursday night on TelevisaUnivision from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. On “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”) he sings about holding on to m

The 80-member Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Maximiano Valdés and featuring cuatro soloist Luis Sanz, above, will bring to Boston an evening of rhythms and warmth from home. (bso.org) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to THE STAR Mega bucks superstar Bad Bunny isn’t the Caribbean island’s only musical treasure, and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) is about to see that everybody knows it. Friday night in chilly Boston, in the prestigious Symphony Hall, th

By MANOHLA DARGIS You don’t expect a meet-cute in a “Predator” movie, but that’s just one of the surprises in this latest edition. Space is the place in “Predator: Badlands,” specifically a planet where an android researcher, Thia (a delightful Elle Fanning), meets Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), a Predator who’s on the hunt. He’s tall, has fearsome mandibles and a face to match. She’s bubbly, talkative and has been severed in two, leaving her upper half stuck in a nes

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2025 inductee Cyndi Lauper in New York, May 20, 2024. (Thea Traff/The New York Times) By BRIAN RAFTERY The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has long been known as boomer mecca, where musicians of the ’60s and ’70s are feted and lionized. But its 2025 induction ceremony made one thing clear: Now, it’s Gen X’s time. The concert-slash-coronation, which took place Saturday at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, honored several acts whose careers started

A mariachi band, Mariachi Sol de Acapulco, plays a tribute song to the Mexican singer and songwriter Juan Gabriel in front of his portrait at a restaurant, in Mexico City, Aug. 29, 2016. (Brett Gundlock/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL They had come on planes and buses, in pedicabs and on scooters. Some navigated the crowd in wheelchairs or pushed babies in strollers. They were there, in Mexico City’s central plaza, to see the singer known as the “Divo of Juárez,” or simp

Lady Gaga performs at Madison Square Garden in New York on Aug. 22, 2025. She is among the top nominees for the 68th annual Grammy Awards in February 2026. (The New York Times) By BEN SISARIO Rap will be front and center at the 68th annual Grammy Awards in February, with Kendrick Lamar; Bad Bunny; Doechii; and Tyler, the Creator among the top nominees. Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan are also in competition for the most prestigious awards, accord