By JASON BAILEY ‘A Little Prayer’ (2025) David Strathairn led the all-star cast of “Good Night and Good Luck” in 2005, got an Oscar nomination for his trouble, and then … kept right on being David Strathairn, making small movies with lesser-known directors (rather than cashing in as, say, a Marvel villain). He’s particularly good, in all of his specific ways, in this modest drama of a quietly messy family, from writer-director Angus Maclachlan. As the patriarch Bill Brass, St

A mixed-generation crowd at the Latin Mondays dance party at 5th & Mad in Manhattan on Feb. 2, 2026. Bad Bunny’s “Baile Inolvidable” has sparked a surge of interest in salsa dancing and brought in a younger generation. (Rafael Rios/The New York Times) By BRIAN SEIBERT Nearly every move Bad Bunny made during the Super Bowl halftime show last month has been scrutinized for its cultural significance. But there’s still more to say about one. It came during the segment devoted to

Roman busy at work painting one of her fantastical portraits. By EVA LLORENS The hills of Arecibo, quiet and lush, shaped the imagination of Puerto Rican artist Aidamaris Román long before she ever held a professional brush. She grew up in the countryside, surrounded by what she still describes as an unseen magic. “I live in the country,” she says. “I feel it has so much magic. It inspired me to paint fantasy — like fairies and mermaids.” That sense of wonder, rooted in child

In an undated image provided by Bungie, a scene from the extraction shooter game Marathon. Over the decades, the depiction of artificial intelligence has evolved from sci-fi villain to systemic reality. (Bungie via The New York Times) By YUSSEF COLE Players take up the role of runners, free-floating consciousness beamed across space into the hollow shells of mindless synthetic bodies, in Marathon, the newest game by the studio behind the sci-fi behemoths Halo and Destiny. The

Sylvain Chomet in Paris, on Feb. 3, 2026. The first animated feature in 15 years by the acclaimed French filmmaker Sylvain Chomet, the “Triplets of Belleville” creator, is a biopic of another artist who never lost his ability for wonder and curiosity. (Elliott Verdier/The New York Times) By CARLOS AGUILAR In the hand-drawn period pieces that have earned French animator Sylvain Chomet international acclaim, the cartoony characters don’t speak. Their bodies tell the story. But

“Bone Lake” By ERIK PIEPENBERG This month’s picks include a disastrous vacation, a macabre homecoming and a witchy healing session. ‘Bone Lake’ Drugs, alcohol, sex toys, beefcake, physical seduction, emotional manipulation, taboo attractions and an arrow shot through a pair of testicles. Those are just some of the sinister pleasures in this nutty, darkly funny and very entertaining erotic thriller from director Mercedes Bryce Morgan and writer Joshua Friedlander. Sage (Maddie

Orfeón San Juan Bautista (Facebook via Orfeón San Juan Bautista) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR There is a small city in the northwestern state of Oregon where it rains all the time. And in that small city, almost everyone has a vein of musical talent. Precipitation and harmonization are two facts of life that clarinetist Kathleen Jones knows well. She had many a play date or shopping spree ruined by a downpour when she was growing up in the aforementioned town, Eugen

An AI-generated likeness of the late actor Val Kilmer will appear in the movie “As Deep as the Grave,” set for release later this year. (Instagram via screenthrill) By REGGIE UGWU A photorealistic artificial intelligence likeness of Val Kilmer, the “Top Gun,” “Batman Forever” and “Heat” actor who died from throat cancer last year, will appear in a new movie he had planned to shoot before being hindered by his illness. Coerte Voorhees, the movie’s writer and director, said the

Puerto Rican pianist Bryan Ojeda Chevres ( lscivicorchestra.org ) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR Young keyboard wizard Bryan Ojeda Chevres has played with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) five times under the baton of Maestro Maximiliano Valdés, the last on the fabled Bosendorfer of the University of Puerto Rico. But that was some two years ago, with Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, and this is now, at Bellas Artes, with the “Fourth Piano Concerto in D,” p

A molecular biologist, Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) has been working as a middle-school teacher when some serious-looking people recruit him for humanity’s seemingly impossible mission. By MANOHLA DARGIS One of the charms of “Project Hail Mary,” a feather-light science-fiction movie about a heavyweight subject — the end of the world — is how it embraces the seductions of outer space. It’s a nice change of pace, given how space often occupies the darker corners of the human ima