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  • More than 20,000 people have been rescued from the floodwaters. The state's governor describes the flooding as "unprecedented," and authorities are warning that waters could rise more in some areas.
  • A new grant is helping Olympians and Paralympians pay for child care while they compete in Tokyo. The $200,000 child-care grant is from the Women's Sports Foundation and clothing maker Athleta.
  • In her new documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” director Laura Poitras examines both the life of photographer Nan Goldin and the origins of America’s opioid epidemic. Nathan Weinbender says the disparate threads come together in ways both surprising and deeply moving.
  • It’s been out for a week, and Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” is already a cultural phenomenon and a box office champion. Nathan Weinbender unboxes the summer’s biggest movie, which turns out to be a sharp social critique AND a bright, bold comic fantasy.
  • “Love Lies Bleeding” is violent, lurid and full of shocking twists. It’s also disarmingly weird in a way that, Nathan Weinbender says, will either thrill you or annoy you.
  • You never know what you’re going to get with M. Night Shyamalan. The prolific writer-director is back with “Trap,” a goofy potboiler that Nathan Weinbender says starts out with a bang but peters out before it’s done.
  • Now on Netflix, “Rebel Ridge” is about a small town, a Marine, some cash and a corrupt sheriff. But it’s way more complicated than that. Nathan Weinbender says this is a solid thriller that also works as a portrait of systemic corruption in America.
  • The Iranian-German co-production “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is currently nominated for the Best International Film Oscar. It has a turbulent making-of story, but Nathan Weinbender says the movie itself is just as intense and impossible to look away from.
  • Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett star in the espionage thriller “Black Bag,” Steven Soderbergh’s second feature of 2025. Nathan Weinbender says it’s an entertaining genre exercise and a surprising domestic comedy about work-life balance.
  • The dystopian thriller "The Running Man" has been brought into the present day by director Edgar Wright and star Glen Powell. Nathan Weinbender says it’s an uneven, overlong action-comedy blockbuster.
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