Maya Salam

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Some filmmakers have no qualms about sending audiences out on the bleakest note; others famously watered down their conclusions. These are among the most debated.

Across television, film and podcast, these four stories use personal tragedies as a way to illuminate bigger institutional failures in health care.

In 1997, Nicolas Cage and John Travolta swapped identities and faces in John Woo’s extravagant action thriller. The results were fabulously ludicrous.

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For his new take on the classic tale, del Toro aimed to defy expectations. He envisioned the creature as a thing of beauty and a work of art.

The upcoming season of “Saturday Night Live” will feature five new faces. Departing are Heidi Gardner, Michael Longfellow, Emil Wakim and Devon Walker.

Knox served as an executive producer on “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox,” an ambitious new Hulu mini-series that recounts her infamous international crime saga.

In 1989, Patrick Swayze played a bouncer at an outrageously out-of-control bar. It set a standard for a movie that’s irresistible, almost in spite of itself.