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‘B Positive’

Starring Thomas Middleditch and Annaleigh Ashford, the new CBS comedy "B Positive" has potential.
‘Moonbase 8’

"Moonbase 8" might actually be the most successful and interesting of all of 2020's space-focused new series.
‘Roadkill’

Writer-producer David Hare places Hugh Laurie's Peter Laurence in a post-Brexit, pre-coronavirus pandemic world.
‘The Queen’s Gambit’

Netflix's new limited series, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller and Bill Camp, is a welcome change of pace.

‘Mank’

Gary Oldman is delectably droll as the screenwriter of "Citizen Kane" in David Fincher's time-machine trip through '30s Hollywood.
‘Let Him Go’

Diane Lane and Kevin Costner give it their all in a genre film that fuses suspense with honest emotion.
Critics Pick
‘Acute Misfortune’

Thomas M. Wright's remarkable debut explores an Aussie portrait artist whose bad-boy persona may have been an act, as well as his undoing.
‘Jungleland’

Jack O'Connell and Charlie Hunnam play a boxer and his manager-brother in this well-crafted but overly derivative drama.

Kylie Minogue’s ‘Disco’

Kylie Minogue's most consistent and cohesive album since her oughts-era heyday, "Disco" is a welcome blast of sugar-rush anthems.
Ariana Grande’s ‘Positions’

Ariana Grande's "Positions," while less a tour de force than its predecessors, wins by focusing on upbeat, down-tempo romanticism.
Puscifer’s ‘Existential Reckoning’

Puscifer, the side project of Tool's Maynard James Keenan, has come back with the Halloween-ready "Existential Reckoning" album.
Gorillaz’s ‘Song Machine: Season One – Strange Timez’

Gorillaz returns to party mode with "Song Machine," where Damon Albarn is joined by Beck, St. Vincent, Schoolboy Q, 6lack & others.

‘Death of England: Delroy’

Starring "Hamilton's" Michael Balogun and performed on the eve of England's second lockdown, the play is sure to be seen again.
‘The Last Five Years’

This smart revival of Jason Robert Brown's musical plays in a London theater cleverly redesigned for COVID-era safety.
‘The Outside Dog’ & ‘The Hand of God’

Kristin Scott Thomas and Rochenda Sandall headline two Alan Bennett monologues, which even under social distance pack a punch.
‘Beat the Devil’

David Hare's monologue at the Bridge Theatre in London recounts the playwright's battle with COVID-19.