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Despite lingering coronavirus concerns, the Venice Film Festival is still set for September.
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New York Begins Reopening Phase, Says Cuomo
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the state is in the reopening phase during a Sunday briefing. Campgrounds and sports teams’ facilities can also open back up after being shut down for more…
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'Central Park' on Apple TV Plus: TV Review
Ten minutes into “Central Park” comes the kind of true-blue Broadway group number that brings every character and chord crashing together in a burst of overt ambitions and desires. There’s Owen…
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Critics' Dialogue: Should the Oscars Recognize Films That Are Streaming Only?
Variety critics Owen Gleiberman and Peter Debruge debate whether the Academy ought to allow streaming contenders.
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‘Homecoming’ Season 2
With Julia Roberts and Sam Esmail gone, "Homecoming" doesn't come up with a credible way forward.
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‘Snowpiercer’
The strangeness of "Snowpiercer," TNT's new post-apocalyptic drama (based on the Bong Joon Ho film), is all in its setting.
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'I Know This Much Is True'
HBO's limited series "I Know This Much Is True" ends up being precisely the sum of Mark Ruffalo's two parts.
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‘Normal People’
The TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's bestselling novel "Normal People," starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal, is crushingly intimate.
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‘The Lovebirds’
The first movie directed by Michael Showalter since "The Big Sick" is a romantic crime comedy that aims lower than it thinks.
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‘Body Cam’
As a grieving cop, Mary J. Blige serves and protects a tricky storyline in this socially engaged supernatural thriller.
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‘The Trip to Greece’
The fourth "Trip" film finds Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon retracing the path of Odysseus as they continue to eat, drink and be quippy.
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‘The Painter and the Thief’
A Czech painter befriends the junkie thief who stole two of her artworks, paving the way for a surprising friendship, in this art-heist doc.
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Album Review: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit's 'Reunions'
On "Reunions," singer-songwriter Jason Isbell continues his reign as one Americana's master craftsmen.
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Album Review: JoJo's 'Good to Know'
JoJo, the multi-tracked queen of pop-R&B as a young teen in the early 2000s, has grown into herself on a comeback album, "Good to Know."
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Album Review: Kenny Chesney's 'Here and Now'
Kenny Chesney's "Here and Now," while clearly designed to be sung along with in stadiums, is also strangely satisfying in a lonelier moment.
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Album Review: Fiona Apple's 'Fetch the Bolt Cutters'
Fiona Apple's time sequestered has not been time squandered: "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" is album of the year material.
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‘The Prince of Egypt’
With a score by Stephen Schwartz ("Wicked"), this screen-to-stage transfer is so effortful it's enervating.
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‘Girl From the North Country’
The moody music and lyrics from the Bob Dylan playbook both define and heighten Conor McPherson's haunting vision of the Depression.
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‘The Hot Wing King’
Katori Hall gets belly laughs out of this comedy about an amateur cook trying to create a signature dish while chaos reigns in the kitchen.
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‘West Side Story’
Ivo Van Hove dares to fiddle with perfection in this modernized but still respectful re-working of the 1957 masterpiece.
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