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Summer blockbusters are back! Here are the biggest and buzziest, from In the Heights to Zola, to Space Jam 2.
Cruella de Vil/ Cruella de Vil/ your movie is OK/ but Emma Stone kills
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit is now poised to be the movie of the summer.
From Ellen DeGeneres to Scott Rudin, the entertainment industry’s coddling of jerks is coming under examination. Sort of.
Netflix’s flashy, star-studded new drama is a big old dud.
A surprisingly apt post-pandemic horror film, St. Maud reminds us that hell is other people.
The sprawling TLC franchise changed the game in reality TV.
The pandemic taught us what theaters are for.
A fantastically unpredictable show ended on a huge bummer of an anticlimax.
The quiet drama makes a lot of sense for this strange Oscars year.
Major milestones from a historically weird Academy Awards.
The Academy Awards will look different this year.
The original Mortal Kombat is a cheesy, exotified, incoherent action movie mishmash. I love it so much.
The merits, demerits, and awards chances of each film in a weird year at the Oscars.
Why we love this Best Picture nominee.
Director Nikole Beckwith says there are “different ways to be the object of someone’s affection.”
Great performances and fascinating technical choices power the riveting drama starring Riz Ahmed as a drummer who’s going deaf.
How the Best Picture nominee depicts grief, gig employment, and the American heartland.
The movie, starring Anthony Hopkins, is heartbreaking and brilliant.
Our critics have wildly differing opinions about the movie. Will the Oscars?
The star’s HBO vanity docuseries series Wahl Street posits entrepreneurship as self-development.
Exploring David Fincher’s complicated movie about Hollywood and the making of Citizen Kane.
The Netflix historical courtroom drama seems like a classic Oscar movie. Will it win?
A chat with Jason Kilar, who wants to unwind his controversial streaming plan.
The trend of movies that seemingly exist just to advertise intellectual property vaults is unsettling.
This Is a Robbery is more like a podcast with pictures, but not a very good one.
The Netflix drama also stars Stranger Things’ Caleb McLaughlin in a tale of city horsewrangling.
On Hulu’s new documentary and why we keep falling for guys like Adam Neumann.
Art by marginalized communities exists for reasons other than educating others.
You’ll have to wait until July to see Black Widow in theaters or at home.
The HBO Max release of the fabled “Snyder Cut” happened thanks to a mix of entitlement, harassment, and privilege.
The fundamental differences between Justice League and the Snyder Cut, explained.
Problems such as rent, bills, and ongoing trauma didn’t go away when the Avengers defeated Thanos.
From Contagion to World War Z to Palm Springs, what the artists who foresaw the pandemic are thinking now.
The group that gives out the Oscars has ballooned in size in the past few years — with big implications for the Oscars’ future.
Both LaKeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya got nominations. But shouldn’t one of them be in the Lead Actor category?
On the whole, the nominees are pretty good — and pretty interesting.