Reviews
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‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Broadway Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber Finally Discovers Drag
With over a billion served, the McDonald’s of musicals takes it to the ballroom for a radical, if not very up-to-date, makeover
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‘Hacks’ Season 5 Review: Deborah Vance’s Hilarious Swan Song Earns Its Emotional Punchlines
Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder return for one more trip around the Las Vegas sun in the nostalgic final season
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‘The Boys’ Season 5 Review: Superhero Series Thrives Through Its Grotesque Finale
Antony Starr and company are back with a formulaic but insightful reminder of why it’s the smartest superpowered TV show ever made
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‘Faces of Death’ Review: A Bloodcurdling, Damning New Take on the Ultimate Cult Horror Curio
Daniel Goldhaber’s terrifying reboot knows only a monster would actually reboot ‘Faces of Death’ — and that’s the whole point
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‘The Testaments’ Review: Chase Infiniti Excels in YA-Tinged ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel Series
Ann Dowd, Lucy Halliday and Rowan Blanchard headline the talented ensemble at the center of Gilead’s next rebellion
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‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Review: This Lazy Junk Will Probably Make a Billion Dollars
The latest animated “Super Mario Bros.” movie has no imagination, barely tells a story and wastes everyone’s time
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‘The Drama’ Review: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson Are Amazing, but the Film’s Dark Secret Is Almost Too Unsettling
A last-minute revelation threatens to ruin a wedding, and lives, in Kristoffer Borgli’s dark, uncomfortably Woody Allen-esque comedy
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‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Broadway Review: Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Bring a Classic Movie to the Stage
“The Bear” actors do a great job replacing (but not replicating) Al Pacino and John Cazale
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‘The Serpent’s Skin’ Review: Lo-Fi Trans Fantasy Proves Counterculture Reigns Supreme
Alice Maio Mackay’s eccentric indie pastiche rips the heart out of popular culture and bequeaths it to true outsiders
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‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Review: Twisted Netflix Mystery Is Unnerving
The lead up to a lavish wedding is plagued by a lackluster resolution in this horror series from Haley Z. Boston and the Duffer Brothers
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‘Giant’ Broadway Review: John Lithgow Devours Roald Dahl for Breakfast
Mark Rosenblatt’s new play uncovers a pivotal moment in the life of the celebrated author of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” who was also a major antisemite
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‘Tru’ Off Broadway Review: Jesse Tyler Ferguson Works Hard to Make Truman Capote a Real Bore
Was the author of “In Cold Blood” really so tiresome and witless?
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‘They Will Kill You’ Review: Zazie Beetz Slays in a Devilish, Kill-the-Rich Horror Genre Mash-Up
SXSW: Director Kirill Sokolov delivers raucous thrills in a tale of sisters who fight their way out of Hell
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‘The Comeback’ Season 3 Review: Lisa Kudrow Outdoes Herself in Valerie Cherish’s AI-Tinged Swan Song
The actress and Michael Patrick King craft an outstanding commentary of today’s Hollywood dilemmas while deepening its central character
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‘Ulster American’ Off Broadway Review: Matthew Broderick Scores as Oscar-Winning Nitwit
David Ireland’s new play finds comedy in the Troubles














