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  1. backstories
    How Dogma Finally Escaped Harvey WeinsteinThe disgraced mogul had kept the film out of theaters and off streaming since its release, until a surprise figure outmaneuvered him.
  2. a long talk
    Mark Duplass in Los Angeles on Nov. 19, 2024. (Elizabeth Weinberg/The New York Times)
    Mark Duplass Has a Plan to Save TelevisionThe indie film market collapsed. Then the TV business. His model fuses both at a fraction of the cost.
  3. gold rush
    The Boys Season 4
    The Boys Creator Eric Kripke Isn’t Trying to Predict the Future“People come up to me like, ‘Will you just please write a happy ending?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t really have control over any of this.’”
  4. the t in egot
    Every Single Thing That Happened at the 2025 Tony AwardsA big night for Maybe Happy Ending, Sunset Blvd., Purpose, and Cole Escola.
  5. gold rush
    Inside the Whisper Campaign to Unseat The Bear As the Emmy’s Best Comedy“Is Hacks the perfect show? No. But in this moment, we want comedy to be rewarded.”
  6. movie review
    Don’t Be Surprised If The Life of Chuck Breaks YouThis Stephen King adaptation is not like most other Stephen King adaptations.
  7. movie review
    Dogma Is Still the Best Movie Kevin Smith Ever MadeSure, it’s chatty, casual, inelegant, and doesn’t make much sense. But it’s also sincere, charming, and extremely funny.
  8. soft launch
    Carl Radke Prepares His Summer House Contingency PlanWith Soft Bar set to open in August, the Bravo star moves on from the Lindsay Hubbard drama for good.
  9. this week in late night
    A Juvenile Story From the Creator of Adolescence Won Late Night This WeekPlus some great wordplay from Jon Stewart and the writers of After Midnight.
  10. in session
    Benmont Tench Went FurtherThe trusted keyboard player on his best and most difficult sessions, from the Heartbreakers to that guy Bob from Duluth.
  11. tv review
    Stick Is Stuck on the Trauma PlotThe Owen Wilson golf comedy is feel-good TV built on a feel-bad foundation.
  12. qu’est-ce que c’est?
    How Saoirse Ronan Became the Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’“I was totally daunted,” Mike Mills says of directing the song’s first-ever video. “How do you make a video for my art heroes?”
  13. careers
    Where Does Tom Cruise Go From Here?Mission: Impossible might be over. What the actor does next could have enormous consequences — for him and for Hollywood.
  14. tony awards 2025
    Who Will Win the 2025 Tony Awards‘Oh, Mary!’ surely. But also a lot of other non-demon-twink-centric shows.
  15. movie review
    Ballerina’s Second Half Does John Wick ProudUnfortunately, the first half of the Ana de Armas spinoff blows, but it’s worth sticking around for what comes later.
  16. close read
    Adults Needs More Room to GrowWhere its genre predecessors were given network-size seasons to calibrate their quirks, this streaming-era hangout sitcom has no such luxury.
  17. 1.5x speed
    What Keith McNally Is Listening To“Because this is a dangerous time in America, I gravitate to podcasts which concentrate on the lunacy of the Trump administration.”
  18. stand-up
    5 New Comedy Specials You Should Definitely Watch (When You Have a Moment)Looking for some stand-up recommendations? Here are some recent releases that are worth your attention.
  19. theater review
    Gods and Monsters: Eurydice and Bowl EPSarah Ruhl’s 2003 play is lush with language; Nazareth Hassan’s play plunks a skate park and a demon down among the theatergoers.
  20. the hollywood issue
    Michael B. Jordan Did the ImpossibleIn an era of mounting crises in Hollywood, the Sinners star got people off their couches and into theaters for an original film.
  21. book review
    Susan Choi Is Still Outlandishly TalentedA father’s disappearance, and the black hole of uncertainty surrounding it, are the subject of her prickly new novel.
  22. gold rush
    Emmy Voters, It’s Not Too Late to Watch These Outstanding SeriesTrust me: They’re worth your time.
  23. movie review
    In Mountainhead, the Rich Eat UsThere’s no catharsis to be found in the new satire from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong.
  24. funny videos of the month
    May’s Funniest Comedy ShortsRounding up our favorite funny videos of the month.
  25. tv review
    Hacks Stopped Being About ComedyAnd became a better but more familiar show.
  26. gay for god
    And Just Like That, Rosie O’Donnell Is a Lesbian Virgin NunAnd I couldn’t help but wonder, would she ever consider doing Morrible on Broadway?
  27. profile
    Since Dorian DiedTwo years after the death of his son, Ben Kweller doesn’t want to waste any more time.
  28. endings
    100 Foot Wave Crashes to ShoreThe surfing docuseries’ wistful third season feels like a definitive ending, if not for the show itself than at least for its mercurial protagonist.
  29. taste
    Why Everyone Wants to Get Into the Criterion ClosetThe ritual has become part of the fabric of modern cinephilia over the past decade and a half.
  30. strategy
    The Celebrity Press-Tour Road MapEat the chicken, complain on the subway, show off your apartment, then pray that something pops.
  31. shock and awe
    Sparks Are Li’l Album-Cover FreaksRanking the band’s most museum-worthy artworks with the brothers themselves.
  32. what’s his take?
    SubwayTakes Is Trying to Squeeze All the JuiceSocial media is more saturated with the series than ever before. Creator Kareem Rahma wants to see how far the audience’s appetite will stretch.
  33. first person
    Pee-wee and MeThe film I made about my childhood hero was four years in the making, and it almost broke me.
  34. exit interview
    ‘It’s All a Circle’How The Handmaid’s Tale’s Elisabeth Moss and Bruce Miller brought June Osborne home.
  35. at the box office
    Lilo & Stitch
    Why Disney’s Live-Action Lilo & Stitch Succeeded Where Snow White FailedSome see it as a key difference in the Disney films’ approach to the term “live-action.”
  36. superlatives
    Goose’s Most Sideways Jam, According to the Shredders ThemselvesThe band behind so many superb, sprawling songs picks the sexiest, weirdest, and most underrated.
  37. anonymous in hollywood
    Fame and Frustration on the New Media CircuitPublicity used to be so straightforward. Now, for stars and their teams, “no one’s sure what works anymore.”
  38. encounter
    Wing ManHot Ones’s Sean Evans lacks the scene-stealing impulse of other celebrity-interview hosts. That may be the key to his success.
  39. exit interview
    ‘No One Wants to Think That Their Pilot Is Weird’How Nathan Fielder channeled a longtime personal obsession into his most ambitious project yet.
  40. overnights
    The Rehearsal Season-Finale Recap: Come Fly With MeA brilliant finale brings the season in for a personal, unexpectedly moving landing.
  41. endings
    The Last of Us Enters Perilous TerritorySeason two’s cliffhanger, lifted directly from the game, will be trickier for the TV adaptation to pull off.
  42. cannes 2025
    Closing Ceremony - The 78th Annual Cannes Film Festival
    Cannes Proved Its Own Value With This Year’s Palme d’Or WinnerIf any film fits the impossibly idealist version of Cannes its participants reach for every year, it’s Jafar Panahi’s A Simple Accident.
  43. cannes 2025
    Jennifer Lawrence Gets to Act Her Age in Die, My LoveLynne Ramsay’s postpartum phantasmagoria doesn’t go somewhere so much as it runs right off a cliff, and it’s Lawrence who holds its pieces together.
  44. cannes 2025
    The Little Sister’s Nadia Melliti Is Cannes’s Breakout StarHow Melliti and director Hafsia Herzi created a moving portrait of a young Muslim woman exploring her sexuality.
  45. gold rush
    Our Way Too Early Emmys PredictionsNominations days is two months away but the 2025 TV awards race has already come into focus.
  46. cannes 2025
    What Is Nudity? What Is Volume? And More Urgent Questions from CannesThe phrase “recession indicator” has been overused, and yet, it’s the only way I can describe the scene at Cannes this year.
  47. cannes 2025
    Honey Don’t! Is Only Worth Watching For the Sexual SwaggerThe latest “lesbian B-movie” from Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke doesn’t have a lot else going on.
  48. way too close reads
    The Final Reckoning Is Closure for Tom Cruise’s Infamous Couch JumpThe new Mission: Impossible hits theaters 20 years to the day since Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch. And it dares to show him crazy in love again.
  49. the festival circuit
    The Ultimate Guide to 2025’s Can’t-Miss Music FestivalsPlan ahead for marquee acts, tolerable travel, and … punk-rock bowling? Let’s go.
  50. comedy review
    Jerrod Carmichael Takes Off the ArmorDon’t Be Gay is surprisingly free of high-concept artfulness. Without it, what’s left?
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