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Barry LevittThe Daily Beast |
Every day, Disney strays further from the wishing star’s light. And there’s one big reason for that: a staggering lack of animated villains. The...
Saturday Night has a compelling concept: Instead of a film tracking the history of Saturday Night Live , which is celebrating its 50th season this...
Abbott Elementary 's third season (shortened due to last year's WGA strike) ended on a cliffhanger as teachers Janine Teagues (Quinta Brunson) and...
It’s What’s Inside made waves earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where its $17 million acquisition by Netflix made it the...
Though she never goes anywhere herself, Mel (Natasha Rothwell) spends her days working at New York’s JFK Airport, helping people travel to exciting...
VENICE, Italy—Have you ever discovered the person you trust most in the world is being unfaithful? There are infinite ways of dealing with this...
VENICE, Italy—Fentanyl addictions have taken hold of America. According to the U.S. State Department, some 70,000 people died from fentanyl related...
VENICE, Italy—Ingrid (Julianne Moore) is a writer, signing copies of her new book. She’s written it to help process her fears about death, but...
VENICE, Italy—District Attorney Margaret (Amy Ryan) is in big trouble. On an impulse, she invited a younger man back to her hotel room—and it was...
VENICE, Italy—It can be easy to overreact at a Film Festival. There’s a reason they’re so appealing—being surrounded by thousands of people...
Animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki has given the world a lifetime of joy and entertainment via his Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki is behind some of the most...
VENICE, Italy—Ryôsuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda) arrives at an older man's house. The man is trying to get rid of some therapy machines, and Yoshii...
VENICE, Italy—In a recent interview with Vanity Fair , Nicole Kidman said she’s scared to see herself in her new film Babygirl because it is so...
VENICE, Italy—Few filmmakers have the notoriety of Leni Riefenstahl. After breaking out with The Blue Light in 1932, her filmmaking prowess drew the...
VENICE, Italy—“They’re all gone.” Those words, delivered by Jim McKay, host of ABC’s Wide World of Sports, are some of the most haunting...
VENICE, Italy—A legend of the stage, few people have become as synonymous with an art form as Maria Callas has with opera. Known affectionately as...
VENICE, Italy—Immigration is out of control. That’s a common talking point all over the world. The immigration crisis has become one of the...
VENICE, Italy—Set long after the events of the 1988 film, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice finds Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) now working as a television...
Even if you’ve never seen a second of Baywatch , you’ve likely seen the indelible image of gorgeous women and hunky men running along the beach...
There are few films that are quite like Between the Temples . Now in theaters, it’s a sparkling and distinctly Jewish comedy. Written and directed...
In Julian Farino’s The Union , now on Netflix, Mike (Mark Wahlberg) is your everyday, All-American dude. He works in construction by day and hangs...
The best part of working as a film critic is discovering movies that make you feel something you didn’t expect, those films linger in your mind and...
Batman: Caped Crusader is invigorating television. It can be easy to feel inundated by superheroes these days, with the MCU’s dominance of popular...
Everyone’s favorite Bikini Bottom resident is starring in a brand new film. No, not SpongeBob (though he’s still a main character). The focus, for...
Deadpool & Wolverine has taken over the world, shattering box office expectations, earning nearly $450 million worldwide on opening weekend. It’s...
In Florence, Italy in the year 1348, the pestilence has run amok killing countless people, leaving them unsightly piles of flesh and boils. Sure, that...
This season of The Boys has been wild. It dives deeper into political satire than ever before, leaving a divided nation in its wake. The series...
Osgood Perkins has made a beast of a film with Longlegs , which stars Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, and Nicolas Cage. The horror thriller is a...
Tyler Perry is a fascinating case study. Despite constant critical dismissal, he’s one of the most successful filmmakers in America, consistently...
Is Hollywood running out of ideas? Even stranger than rebooting seemingly every old hit for a new generation is the longstanding tradition of adapting...
The concept of The Boyfriend, Japan’s first same-sex reality show, is not unfamiliar: a group of nine gay men live in a house together for a month....
The Boys never shies away from pushing buttons. This show, about a superhero group called The Seven, couldn’t be further from the comic-book movies...
Could you survive in a world of silence? That’s the question at the center of the Quiet Place franchise, which imagines a world where aliens...
Some things in life are inevitable: Death, taxes, and somebody dredging up discourse about age-gap relationships. The mere act of dating someone...
In the 2022 Netflix special Stand Out: An LGBTQ Celebration, Lily Tomlin introduces Sandra Bernhard as “indescribable.” That’s a pretty good...
The glitz and glamor of 1978 Miami comes to life within the walls of the Hotel Mutiny, an exclusive members club. Here, you can leave your worries at...
The Acolyte , the latest Star Wars series on Disney , takes us away from the Skywalker saga into the world of the High Republic. But none of that...
Who is IF for? Looking at any of the film’s marketing or the trailer, the answer seems easy: kids. But after seeing IF, written and directed by John...
Growing up, Thomas Kail—the Tony award-winning and Emmy-nominated director—loved It’s A Wonderful Life. “We were this Jewish family living in...
Knuckles is one of the most surprising new shows of the year—yes, really. I know what you’re thinking: How could a spinoff of the incredibly...
Baby Reindeer is Netflix’s latest and most unlikely hit series, taking the world by storm in the weeks since its early-April release. The riveting,...
I love watching The Circle . The Netflix reality competition series—about a group of people who communicate exclusively through the titular social...
It’s fair to ask: Is Jesse Plemons OK? He seems like the loveliest guy, but just looking through his IMDb is enough to make you want to re-up on...
Netflix’s Ripley , written and directed by Steven Zaillian (The Night Of, Schindler’s List), stars Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, the loveable and...
Netflix’s mind-bending 3 Body Problem is one heck of a ride, and it's only getting started. The series, created by Alexander Woo and Game of...
In Kung Fu Panda 4 , cinema's best panda Po (Jack Black) has two gay dads. Okay, so Po’s parents aren’t canonically gay, though if they want to...
Finally, Naomi Watts is great again! I know that might sound weird: When did two-time Oscar-nominee Naomi Watts stop being great? Well, it’s not so...
Did we really need another Kung Fu Panda? The third film in the DreamWorks Animation franchise, featuring Jack Black as the unlikeliest of martial...
If there were ever a series that could afford to take a massive swing in its finale, it’s True Detective: Night Country . After all, the fourth...