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‘Eternals’ Stars Skip Elle Event ‘Out of an Abundance of Caution’ After Possible COVID-19 Exposure

“Eternals” stars Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Gemma Chan and Lauren Ridloff and director Chloé Zhao did not attend Elle’s Women in Hollywood event on Tuesday night due to possible exposure…

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‘You’ Season 3

Netflix's "You" seeks vindication for Penn Badgley's Joe in a creatively depleted third season co-starring Victoria Pedretti.
‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’

Amazon's confusing "I Know What You Did Last Summer" reboot does little to justify being a series rather than a standalone film.
‘Squid Game’

Netflix's smash Korean drama wants to have it both ways, criticizing violence while embracing it for maximum entertainment.
‘Succession’ Season 3

Kendall and Logan go to war in 'Succession' Season 3, which is stronger than ever.

‘Halloween Kills’

After his clever 2018 reboot, David Gordon Green fumbles the ball in a follow-up that falls back into the forgettability of sequel formula.
‘The Last Duel’

Matt Damon and Adam Driver play 14th-century French royal soldiers in a tale that gets told three times. Maybe once would have been enough.
‘The Velvet Underground’

Todd Haynes turns the Velvet Underground's story into a bohemian kaleidoscope, probing their mystique more than their music.
‘Antlers’

Produced by Guillermo del Toro, this genre outing from Scott Cooper pairs real-world psychological trauma with fantastical creature effects.

Coldplay’s ‘Music of the Spheres’

Coldplay comes close to jumping the shark with the celestial concept-album aspects of "Music of the Spheres," yet the pure pop songs work.
James Blake’s ‘Friends That Break Your Heart’

Sonic adventurer and piano balladeer James Blake is more conventional and disruptive on "Friends That Break Your Heart," his strongest album yet.
Brandi Carlile’s ‘In These Silent Days’

Brandi Carlile reestablishes that she's as good a singer as we've got in any genre in her '70s-inspired album "In These Silent Days."
Metallica’s ‘The Metallica Blacklist’

"The Metallica Blacklist" features 53 covers from artists as diverse as Miley Cyrus, Phoebe Bridgers, Jason Isbell, Dave Gahan and J Balvin.

‘The Lehman Trilogy’

The brothers in this epic come to epitomize the rise and fall of American capitalism -- indeed, of America itself.
‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’

Yaël Farber's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," with Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle, is over-directed and under-dramatized.
‘Lackawana Blues’

Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the longtime August Wilson collaborator, brings his own play to Broadway 20 years after its Off Broadway debut.
‘A Crossing’

Stories of the journey are told entirely in movement and song, both original and traditional, by a 12-member cast of Latinx singer-dancers.