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Tomb Raider: Chronicles pays tribute to the original Lara Croft, gaming’s abandoned superhero

The version of Lara Croft that existed in games like the largely forgotten Tomb Raider: Chronicles (which turns 20 years this week) remains indelibly larger than life, and a hero worth remembering.

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Small Axe breakout Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn on the radical romance and reggae of Lovers Rock

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Glenn Close and Amy Adams surprised each other with their Hillbilly Elegy transformations

Colman Domingo opens up about working with the late Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Dolly Parton, Jenifer Lewis, and more on the Christmas cookies that call to them

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Jump Street spin-off Booker failed to create a Sam Spade for the ’90s

Richard Grieco tried his best, but he couldn't get the solo detective series Booker off the ground

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Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is just the party 2020 needs

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A muddled Magisterium raises doubts about His Dark Materials’ commitment to its source material

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All our The Crown season 4 recaps in one convenient place—now including the finale

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One Day At A Time canceled (again), this time by the Pop network

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What's On Tonight

In Happiest Season, Mackenzie Davis and Kristen Stewart make the yuletide gay

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Kristen Stewart celebrates the Happiest Season in a pioneering queer Christmas rom-com

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Peacock’s charming Saved By The Bell knows exactly what to do with its IP

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Kurt Russell is coming back to town in Netflix yuletide dud The Christmas Chronicles Part II

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There’s magic in my eyes: 12 dubious explanations for x-ray vision in games

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8 football movies that aren’t about the players

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Alan Ball’s Uncle Frank smothers a great performance with lazy condescension

There are two movies at war with each other inside Uncle Frank. In the first, Frank (Paul Bettany), a celebrated literature professor at New York University, crumples before the tombstone of a long-lost loved one. He lifts a desperate palm to the…

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May Hillbilly Elegy mark the end of Trump-era myth-making about the white working class

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The best Thanksgiving movies to stream in November

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Ken Jennings to step in as interim Jeopardy! host, with production starting next week

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Moonbase 8 goes into "Quarantine" in its funniest episode yet

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Look at what they've done to Clifford

A wise old man once said, “Sometimes dead is better.” The true nature of this morbid prophecy was not fully actualized until this day with the unveiling of the teaser for Clifford The Big Red Dog, in which said Big Red Dog has been disturbingly…

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Nice, a supercut of all the movie scenes that fucked us up as kids

For all the benefits of being a kid—no bills to pay; lots of free time to sing about dinosaurs; a brain that can’t properly understand politics—there are drawbacks, too. This seems especially true for kids who grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, an era…

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Clips

Stephen Colbert challenges President Obama to some wastepaper basketball trash talk

During his infamously short tenure as White House Press Secretary, Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci once heaped some suspiciously North Korean dictator praise on the supposed athletic skills of his then-boss, claiming that he’d seen Donald Trump…

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After getting snubbed, The Weeknd declares that the Grammys are "corrupt" anyway

The 2021 Grammy nominees were announced this morning, and while there was a lot of good news for Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, one artist who seemed to be having a pretty successful year was snubbed across the board: The Weeknd, whose “Blinding Lights” b…

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Amazon renews The Expanse for a sixth and final season

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One Day At A Time canceled (again), this time by the Pop network

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The A.V. Club serves up a Thanksgiving streaming guide, family style

Tomb Raider: Chronicles pays tribute to the original Lara Croft, gaming’s abandoned superhero

Stardust, the Bowie biopic without any Bowie songs, is velvet garbage

The funny, stylish Jennifer’s Body was an unjust victim of Diablo Cody backlash

We reviewed (nearly) every game out now for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X

6 gifts for all the cinephiles in your life, from Fellini to Friday The 13th

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9 books to buy the readers in your life this holiday

Wednesday's Best Deals: Amazon Echo Sale, Knit Caps, Golden Tee Arcade, Sony WH-1000XM4 Headphones, JACHS NY Men's Pants, and More

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This Preposterously Wide 49" Curved Monitor Terrifies Me, But It's Also 15% Off

Small Axe breakout Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn on the radical romance and reggae of Lovers Rock

Glenn Close and Amy Adams surprised each other with their Hillbilly Elegy transformations

Colman Domingo opens up about working with the late Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Dolly Parton, Jenifer Lewis, and more on the Christmas cookies that call to them

Jump Street spin-off Booker failed to create a Sam Spade for the ’90s

Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is just the party 2020 needs

A muddled Magisterium raises doubts about His Dark Materials’ commitment to its source material

All our The Crown season 4 recaps in one convenient place—now including the finale

One Day At A Time canceled (again), this time by the Pop network

In Happiest Season, Mackenzie Davis and Kristen Stewart make the yuletide gay

Kristen Stewart celebrates the Happiest Season in a pioneering queer Christmas rom-com

Peacock’s charming Saved By The Bell knows exactly what to do with its IP

Kurt Russell is coming back to town in Netflix yuletide dud The Christmas Chronicles Part II

There’s magic in my eyes: 12 dubious explanations for x-ray vision in games

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8 football movies that aren’t about the players

Alan Ball’s Uncle Frank smothers a great performance with lazy condescension

Happiest Season's Clea Duvall and Mary Holland knew their queer love story had to have a happy ending

May Hillbilly Elegy mark the end of Trump-era myth-making about the white working class

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The best Thanksgiving movies to stream in November

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10 episodes to remind you Dexter was so much more than a crappy ending

An evil plan comes together as The Mandalorian treads more familiar ground

Even the flunkies have a dazzling way with words in this early screwball comedy

Worst Chris to buffest Chris: can u not shred so much bro

Ken Jennings to step in as interim Jeopardy! host, with production starting next week

Writ Large podcast tackles The Great Gatsby, a book you likely already have opinions about

Moonbase 8 goes into "Quarantine" in its funniest episode yet

Look at what they've done to Clifford

Nicki Minaj still salty about "white man Bon Iver" beating her at the 2012 Grammys

Nice, a supercut of all the movie scenes that fucked us up as kids

Stephen Colbert challenges President Obama to some wastepaper basketball trash talk

After getting snubbed, The Weeknd declares that the Grammys are "corrupt" anyway

Amazon renews The Expanse for a sixth and final season

One Day At A Time canceled (again), this time by the Pop network

Pete Davidson to play George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life charity table read

Blue In Green reads the way jazz sounds

The mech-centric dystopia of GIGA #1 is the beginning of something exciting

What are you reading in November?

Jonathan Lethem’s The Arrest asks: What happens to a life built around cinema and sushi after society collapses?

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