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Here are the best TV shows, movies, books, comics, and music to read, watch, and listen to right now.

Reality, starring Sydney Sweeney, is unsettling, vital viewing

By Alissa Wilkinson

17 Cannes movies worth watching for

By Alissa Wilkinson

The year’s scariest horror film is The Zone of Interest

By Alissa Wilkinson

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reminds you how much Hollywood has changed 

By Alissa Wilkinson

In Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans, art students scramble for money and sex

By Constance Grady

Hollywood is in its business-guy era

By Alissa Wilkinson

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is the best Marvel movie in years

By Alex Abad-Santos

How Keri Russell sells The Diplomat’s disaster heroine

By Aja Romano

What the hell is going on in Beau Is Afraid?

By Alissa Wilkinson

Star Wars has a Baby Yoda problem

By Aja Romano

Beef is the best show Netflix has had in recent memory

By Alex Abad-Santos

Kelly Link secures her crown as queen of the literary fairy tale

By Constance Grady

In Showing Up, Michelle Williams is an artist desperately trying to get anything done

By Alissa Wilkinson

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On Succession, all the world’s a stage, and the Roys are flubbing their lines

By Whizy Kim

Time doesn’t have to be money

By Constance Grady

Party Down’s new season says hustle culture is a scam

By Alissa Wilkinson

The shadowy puzzle-box pleasures of Chinese spy thriller Hidden Blade

By Aja Romano

The best movie you didn’t see last year is finally out

By Alissa Wilkinson

What Magic Mike’s Last Dance gets right (and wrong) about female desire

By Meredith Haggerty

17 movies to watch out for in 2023

By Alissa Wilkinson

We can’t grieve what we can’t remember

By Alissa Wilkinson

Vintage Contemporaries is a warm-hearted novel that walks in the footsteps of Laurie Colwin

By Constance Grady

Past Lives is already one of the year’s best films

By Alissa Wilkinson

Cat Person, Brett Kavanaugh, Fair Play, and the anger of entitled men

By Alissa Wilkinson

Prince Harry’s Spare is a sad and self-indicting portrait of royalty on the brink

By Constance Grady

What Noah Baumbach’s White Noise is really about

By Alissa Wilkinson

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Babylon’s debauched old Hollywood is about something much bigger

By Alissa Wilkinson

What gets lost when comedies go straight to streaming

By Alissa Wilkinson

Hulu’s Kindred solves the Handmaid’s Tale problem

By Constance Grady

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Avatar: The Way of Water reminds us that blockbusters don’t have to look absolutely terrible

By Alissa Wilkinson

Vox’s 16 best books of 2022

By Constance Grady

Netflix’s Harry and Meghan docuseries brings nothing new to the table

By Constance Grady

Why is Hulu’s Fleishman Is in Trouble so boring?

By Constance Grady

It’s best you know nothing about the new greatest movie of all time

By Alissa Wilkinson

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The 25 best movies of 2022

By Alissa Wilkinson

The surreal true crimes behind Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales

By Aja Romano

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Of course Glass Onion is a blast. But it cuts deeper than Knives Out, too.

By Alissa Wilkinson

How Love Is Blind became a horror show

By Alex Abad-Santos

Unpacking Armageddon Time

By Alissa Wilkinson

Sex, death, and apocalypse meet in season 2 of The White Lotus

By Alissa Wilkinson