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Angelina & Cynthia

ACTORS ON ACTORS | Angelina Jolie and Cynthia Erivo bond over singing live on set and why Jolie's daughter needed 'Defying Gravity.'

By Kate Aurthur

Film

Critics Choice Awards Nominations

"Conclave" and "Wicked" lead with 11 nods each.

By Clayton Davis

Digital

‘Hot Ones’ Studio Sold by BuzzFeed for $82.5 Million to Soros Fund, Sean Evans and Other Investors

“Hot Ones” is going solo. BuzzFeed announced a deal to sell First We Feast, the studio behind the popular YouTube chicken-wing-eating celebrity talk show “Hot Ones,” for…

By Todd Spangler

Music

Mariah Carey to Open NFL Christmas Gameday on Netflix

Mariah Carey will once again prove she is the Queen of Christmas by opening Netflix’s NFL Christmas Gameday on Dec. 25. The pop star will deliver a taped performance of her…

By Ellise Shafer

Warner Bros. Discovery Restructures in Seeming Bid to Fuel Future Deals

Warner Bros. Discovery hopes a split will lead to a better chance of making it whole. The company said Thursday that it would, going forward, “serve as the parent company for…

By Brian Steinberg

NO GOOD DEED. (L to R) Lisa Kudrow as Lydia and Ray Romano as Paul in Episode 105 of No Good Deed. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024

‘No Good Deed’ Review

Netflix's real estate comedy with Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow has good bones beneath all the extra additions.

By Alison Herman

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The Year of ‘Brat’

Charli xcx is Variety's Hitmaker of the Year.
Top Songs of 2024

'A Bar Song (Tipsy),' 'I Had Some Help' and more top the list.

‘Maria’

Angelina Jolie is commanding as Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín's lavish but overly fatalistic drama. More limited than 'Jackie' or 'Spencer,' it's hemmed in by its heroine's downward spiral.
‘Kraven the Hunter’

It's not quite craven, but Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars in a Marvel action movie where everything is derivative. It feels like the beginning of the endgame for Sony's Spider-Man Universe.
‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohoirrim’

A tiresome deep-cut anime prequel for die-hard 'Hobbit' fans. It's set 183 years earlier and introduces another female hero in the vein of Éowyn.
Critics Pick
‘Queer’

Daniel Craig infuses William S. Burroughs with a winning vulnerability in Luca Guadagnino's bold adaptation of Burroughs' ahead-of-its-time novel: a tale of addiction that's also a love story.

‘Interior Chinatown’

'Interior Chinatown' Struggles to Turn an Allegorical Novel Into a Show
‘Dune: Prophecy’

HBO Prequel Series 'Dune: Prophecy' Capably Tailors the Epic Franchise to Television
‘Landman’

Taylor Sheridan's 'Landman' Gives the West Texas Oil Fields the 'Yellowstone' Treatment
'The Day of the Jackal’

Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch's 'The Day of the Jackal' Is an Exhilarating Assassin Thriller

‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’

Billie Eilish and producer Finneas keep up their winning streak with a surprising and intimate third album.
‘Atavista’

Childish Gambino's latest is a masterpiece, and a kaleidoscopic showcase for his seemingly endless talents.
‘Dark Times’

Vince Staples searches for light on his new album, his most vulnerable project to date.
‘Radical Optimism’

Dua Lipa's new album is a joyous blast of pop savvy.

‘An Enemy of the People’

Sam Gold's production is an actorly face-off between Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, but the script ultimately let's the audience off the hook.
‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’

Patricia Clarkson gives a luminous performance in an otherwise uneven revival of Eugene O'Neill's family drama.
‘Tommy’

Strictly for the boomers.
‘Water for Elephants’

The stage adaptation has escapism, enchantment and heart, all elevated to new, literal heights that blend theater and cirque.

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Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound. Then digital angels stepped in, and glory, glory, hallelujah!