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Inside 'Across the Spider-Verse': Last Minute Live-Action Shoots, Major Rewrites and Setting Up the Final Film

SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments and surprises throughout “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” now playing in theaters. For months, the directors…

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Critics Pick
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’

Miles Morales is back for a head-spinning adventure that ups the trippy imagery, and the stakes too.
Critics Pick
‘Past Lives’

Celine Song demonstrates a way with words, but also with the deep wells of emotion that can flow between them, in this exceptional feature debut.
‘The Boogeyman’

'A Quiet Place' writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and 'Dashcam' director Rob Savage serve up a Stephen King adaptation that is effectively scary but not especially memorable.
‘Lynch/Oz’

After a tasty quartet of documentaries about horror films, Alexandre O. Philippe reaches for something more pie-in-the-sky but doesn't quite get over the rainbow.

‘Platonic’

The show feels stranded between a tighter, more joke-forward M.O. and grounded psychological realism.
‘American Born Chinese’

The Disney+ series is so sprawling that its efforts to tie everything together end up hasty and haphazard.
‘The Idol’

Slick and expensive looking, but smarmy as anything HBO has ever produced, the five-part series could be a softcore, female-focused inversion of the network's long-running 'Entourage.'
‘XO, Kitty’

It highlights a generation determined to see the world while being reflective and thoughtful about understanding what is true and right for themselves.

Drake’s ‘Her Loss’

Drake is back on his game with "Her Loss," which has levity where the last album had sulking. 21 Savage is employed far less often but makes for an edgy, strategic foil.
Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’

Taylor Swift's "Midnights" is a pendulum swing away from "Folklore" and "Evermore," in trading acoustic instruments for electronic ones, but it feels like their continuation, in sheer intimacy terms.
Muni Love’s ‘Public Displays of Affection’

Megan Thee Stallion's "Traumazine" goes lighter on her trademark sensuality and humor as it deals with well-known career and personal drama.
Noah Cyrus’ ‘The Hardest Part’

Six years after the release of "Lemonade," pop icon Beyoncé has come through again with the sticky, sweaty, hedonistic "Renaissance."

‘The Piano Lesson’

Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks lead the cast of "The Piano Lesson," August Wilson's story of a family haunted by ghosts of the past.
‘Funny Girl’

Lea Michele gives this 'Funny Girl' what the revival previously lacked: charisma, astonishing vocals and assuredness — not to mention a killer fan base.
‘The Devil Wears Prada’

"Devil Wears Prada," the Broadway-bound new musical, now premiering in Chicago, needs to take a cue from Miranda Priestly and get meaner.
‘The Kite Runner’

Starring Amir Arison, this stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's novel is a heartbreaker -- but so uplifting, it's worth the pain.