Reviews
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‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Broadway Review: Netflix Mashes Up With ‘Grease’ and Stephen King
Stephen Daldry’s flashy direction and Kate Trefry’s comic adaptation makes for an oddball jukebox musical
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‘Floyd Collins’ Broadway Review: Jeremy Jordan Soars While His Character Is Trapped
His great performance galvanizes a high-profile revival that further enhances the brilliance of composer Adam Guettel
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‘Andor’ Season 2 Review: The Best ‘Star Wars’ Story Yet Cements Itself as a TV Masterpiece
Tony Gilroy surpasses expectations with a masterfully poignant, thrilling and timely show about the cost of fighting tyranny
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‘Sneaks’ Review: Anthony Mackie and Martin Lawrence Are Shoes – Yes, Really
It sounds like a bargain bin Pixar knockoff, but there’s something else afoot in this odd animated feature
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‘Ransom Canyon’ Review: Netflix’s Delightful Cowboy Soap Could Fill TV’s ‘Yellowstone’ Void
Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly headline a promising drama with plenty of room to grow in future seasons
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‘The Legend of Ochi’ Review: A24 Fantasy Adventure Is Lovingly Crafted Yet Oddly Inert
Isaiah Saxon’s feature directorial debut looks the part, but lacks an emotional punch
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‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ Broadway Review: Sadie Sink Deconstructs ‘The Crucible’
The “Stranger Things” star returns to the stage in yet another play about white male toxicity
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‘The King of Kings’ Review: Oscar Isaac Stars in a Bland, Animated Bible Greatest Hits Album
Kenneth Branagh co-stars as Charles Dickens in a mediocre kids movie that turns Jesus Christ’s life into a marketplace
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‘Smash’ Broadway Review: Taking a Sharp Pin to the Marilyn Monroe Balloon
To its credit, the new stage musical, based on the NBC TV series, is more send-up than celebration of the sex symbol
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‘Sinners’ Review: Even Vampires Get the Blues in Ryan Coogler’s Awe-Inspiring Horror Film
Michael B. Jordan stars opposite himself as 1930s gangsters who face the undead
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‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 Review: Excellent Cast and Dazzling Sequels Fuel Rich New Batch of Episodes
Will Poulter, Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd and Cristin Milioti lead an all-star season that doubles down on Charlie Brooker’s trademark delicious weirdness
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‘G20’ Review: President Viola Davis Beats Up Economy-Crashing Baddies in Ramshackle ‘Die Hard’ Riff
You either want to watch President Viola Davis beat up mediocre white dudes who just crashed the economy, or you don’t
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‘Old Friends’ Broadway Review: Do We Need Another Stephen Sondheim Revue?
This tired songfest does nothing to enhance the master composer’s reputation
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‘The Amateur’ Review: Revenge Is a Dish Best Served in Other Movies
Rami Malek plays a CIA desk jockey-turned-assassin in this generic, competent, familiar spy thriller
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‘Becoming Eve’ Off Broadway Review: God Herself Would Have to Applaud Richard Schiff
The Emmy-winning “West Wing” actor stars in a great new play about three very different rabbis
