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Nancy Buirski's rapt documentary channels how 'Midnight Cowboy' channeled the world around it.
‘No Hard Feelings’

Jennifer Lawrence plays a Montauk Uber driver hired to take a 19-year-old's virginity in a satire of the safe-space generation that's mostly a big tease.

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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’

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Noah Cyrus’ ‘The Hardest Part’

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‘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.

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