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Final Golden Globes Film Predictions
Our final Golden Globes film predictions include "Nomadland" winning best picture drama, and Chadwick Boseman and Carey Mulligan nabbing acting trophies.
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HFPA Says It Will 'Implement an Action Plan' to Recruit Black Members
Three days before this year’s Golden Globes Awards is set to take place, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is responding to criticism that it has failed to cultivate an inclusive and diverse…
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Variety's 10 Directors to Watch 2021
This year's 10 Directors to Watch roster includes six storytellers whose work was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, and several who find themselves in the thick of the 2021 awards race.
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‘Punky Brewster’
Soleil Moon Frye has always had the ability to capture audiences.
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‘It’s a Sin’
Russell T Davies' new series takes us to the London of the 1980s.
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‘Amend’
Will Smith leads a six-part seminar on the 14th Amendment, a primer in equal rights.
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‘Behind Her Eyes’
The ending of Netflix's "Behind Her Eyes" is surprising, but even more than that, it's stupid.
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‘Cherry’
Tom Holland plays a nowhere dude who falls in love, goes to war and becomes a junkie bank robber.
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‘Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell’
Netflix's Notorious B.I.G. documentary, "Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell," focuses on his street-hustle days more than his tragic end.
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‘United States vs. Billie Holiday’
Lee Daniels' biopic showcases Billie Holiday as a searing political artist, persecuted for singing "Strange Fruit."
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Critics Pick
'I Care a Lot'
J Blakeson has made the rare suspense film that's truly about something: the wages of power.
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Foo Fighters’ ‘Medicine at Midnight’
Dave Grohl promised an album you can groove to, and he delivered with Foo Fighters' latest, "Medicine at Midnight."
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Zayn’s ‘Nobody Is Listening’
Former One Direction member Zayn Malik embraces an intimate, less-pop type of R&B for his third solo album, "Nobody Is Listening."
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Eminem’s ‘Music to Be Murdered By – Side B’
Eminem stays within his comfort zone, for better and for worse, on "Music to Be Murdered By – Side B," his second album release in 2020.
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Paul McCartney’s ‘McCartney III’
Paul McCartney returns to the idea of a true solo album with "McCartney III," a quarantine record where DIY randomness is part of the charm.
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‘The Comeback’
Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen's riotous West End comedy "The Comeback" is a triumph, but London theater closures stopped it in its tracks.
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‘Death of England: Delroy’
Starring "Hamilton's" Michael Balogun and performed on the eve of England's second lockdown, the play is sure to be seen again.
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‘The Last Five Years’
This smart revival of Jason Robert Brown's musical plays in a London theater cleverly redesigned for COVID-era safety.
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‘The Outside Dog’ & ‘The Hand of God’
Kristin Scott Thomas and Rochenda Sandall headline two Alan Bennett monologues, which even under social distance pack a punch.
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