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Poppin’ Off
COVER STORY | Jack Harlow, Variety's Hitmaker of the Year, talks defining his own path after viral hits like "What's Poppin'" and Lil Nas X's "Industry Baby."
Film
Netflix Making Movie About Grandma Who Accidentally Invited Stranger to Thanksgiving (EXCLUSIVE)
TV
Eddie Mekka, ‘Laverne & Shirley’ Actor, Dies at 69
More than a month after the fatal shooting on the set of his movie "Rust," Alec Baldwin will give his first in-studio interview about the tragedy with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.
Digital
Hulu Pulls ‘Astroworld: Concert From Hell’ Documentary After Backlash
Hulu on Wednesday released a new documentary special — “Astroworld: Concert From Hell,” recapping the deadly events at a Travis Scott festival in Houston last month — but quickly pulled it from…
Awards
‘Licorice Pizza’ and Paul Thomas Anderson Named Best Film and Director by National Board of Review
Film
‘West Side Story’ Review
Steven Spielberg gives the classic musical a gritty, rousing upgrade, while also staying true to what generations have loved about it.
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‘Santa Inc.’
Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman star in HBO Max's animated series, which delivers calculated raunchiness.
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‘Coming Out Colton’
Netflix's reality show "Coming Out Colton" sidesteps "Bachelor" star Colton Underwood's real story.
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‘Hawkeye’
Marvel's 'Hawkeye,' starring Hailee Steinfeld and Jeremy Renner, needs more room to develop a voice of its own outside the MCU.
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‘The Wheel of Time’
Amazon Prime Video's new series, starring Rosamund Pike in a cryptic role, suffers from too much story, told too hurriedly.
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‘West Side Story’
Steven Spielberg makes the 1957 musical his own and stays true to what generations have loved about it. But he can't solve its last-act problems.
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Critics Pick
‘Nightmare Alley’
Guillermo del Toro assembles a dream ensemble for a tip-top sideshow attraction, including Cate Blanchett as an icy femme fatale.
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‘The Beatles: Get Back’
A heady expansion of the "Get Back" footage becomes a momentous diary of the group's greatness.
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‘Red Rocket’
"The Florida Project" director Sean Baker turns his attention to Texas City, where a washed-up porn star plots his next move.
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Adele's '30'
Adele offers her most harrowing, unflinching songs yet on "30," but she's having more fun than ever before on some of the tracks, too.
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‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’
An assessment of all nine of the "Red (Taylor's Version)" "vault" numbers, including a 10-minute "All Too Well" that was worth the wait.
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‘Evening With Silk Sonic’
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak's "Evening With Silk Sonic" elevates the throwback song to a whole new level.
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ABBA’s ‘Voyage’
"Voyage," ABBA's first album in nearly 40 years, is so timelessly ABBA-esque that it could have come out any time in the past four decades.
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‘The Visitor’
In this world premiere by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey at the Public Theater, the story centers the wrong character.
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‘Morning Sun’
Stunning performances humanize Simon Stephens' play "Morning Sun," an earnest if bland love letter to a fundamentally unremarkable woman.
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‘Pride and Prejudice (sort of*)’
"Pride and Prejudice (sort of*)" is a smart, riotously funny take on the 19th century's blueprint rom-com that incorporates karaoke tunes.
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‘Caroline, or Change’
Roundabout Theatre Company presents a timely revival of the musical by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori.
VIP+
Data: Netflix Sees Diminishing Returns From True-Crime Docuseries in 2021
The U.S. debuts for the streamer's original series in the genre have proved less successful as the year rolled out
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Awards
Hey Academy, ‘Don’t Look Up’: Leonardo DiCaprio and Ariana Grande Are About to Crash Awards Season
Netflix's last awards season hopeful, "Don't Look Up," drops Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Ariana Grande into the Oscar race.