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With sharp dialogue and a strong cast, Lanterns is a mashup of superpower action, odd couple comedy, and old school cop story. It boasts the pleasures, and betrays the perils of pushing the comic book envelope.

Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson star in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun's satirical film about a young filmmaker who's rebooting a fictional slasher franchise.

Writer-director David Robert Mitchell knows what he's doing: this movie is silly, scary, and over-the-top all at once.

The Kennedy Center's board voted a second time Thursday to close the arts complex's main campus for two years. What will that mean to the audiences and artists who depend on it?

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Anderson Taylor, who has become the Guinness World Record holder for youngest male museum curator. He opened a natural history museum at age 9.