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  • ‘The Wheel of Time’

    Amazon Prime Video's new series, starring Rosamund Pike in a cryptic role, suffers from too much story, told too hurriedly.

  • ‘Yellowjackets’

    Showtime's "Yellowjackets," starring Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis among others, is a pitch-black, haunting survival drama

  • ‘Mayor of Kingstown’

    Jeremy Renner stars in Paramount Plus' new drama about a miserable prison town in a show that suffers in comparison to "Mare of Easttown."

  • Critics Pick

    ‘Licorice Pizza’

    Terrific performances from Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman propel Paul Thomas Anderson's most endearing movie yet, set in early-'70s SoCal.

  • Critics Pick

    ‘Encanto’

    Disney's latest lush and lovely animated fairy tale is fueled by a tasty batch of songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

  • ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’

    Andrew Garfield captures the angst that tortured "Rent" composer Jonathan Larson, who died before his revolutionary show hit Broadway.

  • Critics Pick

    ‘Belfast’

    Kenneth Branagh returns to his roots with this wee memoir, which borrows perhaps a bit too much from Alfonso Cuarón's coming-of-age movie.

  • Adele's '30'

    Adele offers her most harrowing, unflinching songs yet on "30," but she's having more fun than ever before on some of the tracks, too.

  • ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’

    An assessment of all nine of the "Red (Taylor's Version)" "vault" numbers, including a 10-minute "All Too Well" that was worth the wait.

  • ABBA’s ‘Voyage’

    "Voyage," ABBA's first album in nearly 40 years, is so timelessly ABBA-esque that it could have come out any time in the past four decades.

  • ‘The Visitor’

    In this world premiere by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey at the Public Theater, the story centers the wrong character.

  • ‘Morning Sun’

    Stunning performances humanize Simon Stephens' play "Morning Sun," an earnest if bland love letter to a fundamentally unremarkable woman.

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