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‘Harlem’
The new Amazon Prime Video series from "Girls Trip" creator Tracy Oliver, starring Meagan Good, flies by in no time at all.
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‘Annie Live!’
Celina Smith stars as Annie in the NBC special, a spirited, likable reprieve from hard times.
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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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‘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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‘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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‘The Hand of God’
Paolo Sorrentino depicts his defining teenage moment in Naples in 1984, but with a tone that's less Fellini than flip.
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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.
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Cuomo Scandal Puts CNN to the Test
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Hey Academy, ‘Don’t Look Up’: Leonardo DiCaprio and Ariana Grande Are About to Crash Awards Season
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