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film George Miller in the Thunderdome: Ranking his movies, from Fury Road to Happy Feet
By Brett Buckalew, Mark Keizer, Don Lewis, Ian Spelling, Luke Y. Thompson, Todd Gilchrist, Tara Bennett May 24, 2024 | 9:00am
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film Film Trivia Fact Check: The feminist origins of Mad Max: Fury Road
By Matt Schimkowitz May 23, 2024 | 6:05pm
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tv Tyler James Williams on Abbott Elementary's swoon-worthy season finale
By Saloni Gajjar May 23, 2024 | 1:00pm
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tv Who should return for Survivor 50?
By Emma Keates, Matt Mitchell, Olivia Abercrombie, and Hafsah Abbasi May 23, 2024 | 12:00pm
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games MultiVersus Returns from the Dead Next Week, But Will Its New Additions Be Enough?
By Elijah Gonzalez May 23, 2024 | 9:00am
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aux One Chicago brewery found a way to make Malört even worse
By Emma Keates May 22, 2024 | 8:46pm
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film An oral history of Roger Corman's unreleased Fantastic Four movie
By Shaurya Thapa May 22, 2024 | 6:00pm
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games Boss Rush: Dancing with a Demon in El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
By Garrett Martin May 22, 2024 | 12:15pm
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tv TV's 20 best slow-burn romances
By Saloni Gajjar, Mary Kate Carr, Drew Gillis, Emma Keates, Tim Lowery, Cindy White, William Hughes, Matt Schimkowitz, Jen Lennon May 22, 2024 | 12:00pm
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aux And now, a four-hour exploration of the failed Star Wars hotel courtesy of Jenny Nicholson
By Drew Gillis May 21, 2024 | 3:24pm
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tv Abbott Elementary's "love triangle" isn't fooling anybody
By Saloni Gajjar May 21, 2024 | 12:00pm
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film Francis Ford Coppola’s late era trilogy reveals an artist reclaiming his passion
By Rory Doherty May 20, 2024 | 2:00pm
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games Simulated City: Supergiant's Transistor at 10
By Emily Price May 20, 2024 | 12:43pm
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film Skip Back To Black and watch Amy instead
By Kayleigh Donaldson May 20, 2024 | 12:00pm
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aux 30 years ago, The Critic enrolled six-year-olds everywhere in film school
By Matt Schimkowitz May 20, 2024 | 12:00pm
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film How The Crow captured the angst of the 1990s
By Charles Moss May 17, 2024 | 7:58pm
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film No one has done more to rehabilitate The Phantom Menace than Dave Filoni
By Cindy White May 17, 2024 | 3:30pm
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games Why Is Nintendo Downplaying the Third-Party Studios that Make Their Games?
By Marc Normandin May 17, 2024 | 3:21pm
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games Game Theory: 5 fascinating games to sample from Steam's latest buffet of demos
By William Hughes May 17, 2024 | 2:00pm
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tv That big twist in Sugar ruined the whole damn show
By Saloni Gajjar May 17, 2024 | 1:00pm
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film What's your favorite moment from the Star Wars prequels?
By Jen Lennon, Drew Gillis, Cindy White, Matt Schimkowitz, Matt Mitchell, Jacob Oller, William Hughes May 17, 2024 | 12:00pm
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games 25 Year Later, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike’s Reputation is Better Than Ever
By Elijah Gonzalez May 16, 2024 | 12:05pm
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film How The 40-Year-Old Virgin became Hollywood's last great comedy poster
By Matt Schimkowitz May 15, 2024 | 5:05pm
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film Revisiting Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, director John Krasinski’s first pancake of a film
By Cindy White May 15, 2024 | 12:00pm
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film Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace marked a beginning for more than Star Wars
By Jesse Hassenger May 14, 2024 | 2:00pm
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games Essay Anthology Critical Hits Is a Dull Rehash that Fails to Engage with Games Criticism
By Grace Benfell May 14, 2024 | 10:15am
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aux The five best bits we saw at Netflix Is A Joke. Festival
By Matt Schimkowitz May 13, 2024 | 6:08pm
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music 25 essential Weezer songs
By Stephen Thomas Erlewine May 13, 2024 | 2:00pm
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film The Phantom Menace's podrace grew out of George Lucas’ neverending need for speed
By Jarrod Jones May 13, 2024 | 1:30pm
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tv 15 years after its premiere, why is Glee still constantly going viral?
By Isobel Lewis May 13, 2024 | 1:00pm
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games Enter the Chronosphere Is an Eye-Catching Roguelike Where You Stop the Clock
By Elijah Gonzalez May 13, 2024 | 11:00am
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film How The Fall Guy is leading the charge to add an Oscar category for stunts
By Cindy White May 10, 2024 | 4:47pm
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film What movie feels like summer to you?
By Jen Lennon, Saloni Gajjar, Drew Gillis, Tim Lowery, Emma Keates, Cindy White, Jacob Oller, Mary Kate Carr May 10, 2024 | 2:00pm
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aux Of course Grey's Anatomy has the perfect formula to make viewers cry
By Saloni Gajjar May 10, 2024 | 1:17pm
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film The rebooted Planet Of The Apes series looks perpetually forward to an uncertain future
By Jesse Hassenger May 10, 2024 | 12:00pm
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games Game Theory: Microsoft killed some damn fine game studios this week
By William Hughes May 10, 2024 | 12:00pm
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games Just the Tip: Games as a Service Industry
By Mik Deitz May 10, 2024 | 10:45am
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music That time Steve Albini recorded our band
By Tim Lowery May 9, 2024 | 8:07pm
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tv Let’s rank every Restaurant Wars on Top Chef
By Christina Izzo May 9, 2024 | 3:30pm
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tv Why did it take 30 years for a Latino character to join the core X-Men on TV?
By Isabel Sophia Dieppa Betancourt May 8, 2024 | 6:50pm
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games Boss Rush: The Binding of Isaac’s Mom Is Just the Start of Your Torment
By Jim Vorel May 8, 2024 | 10:49am
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film Daylight horror: 12 movies that are still scary with the lights on
By Cindy White May 7, 2024 | 4:00pm
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film It’s a great time to revisit Tarsem’s divisive 2006 masterpiece, The Fall
By Emma Keates May 7, 2024 | 12:30pm
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film 10 movies to check out on Prime Video this May
By Robert DeSalvo May 7, 2024 | 12:00pm
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tv John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In L.A. just ain't working so far
By Michael Martin May 6, 2024 | 6:00pm
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film The Fall Guy's end-credits stunt reel is so cool, we're not sure why they bothered with the rest of the movie
By William Hughes May 6, 2024 | 5:00pm
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aux Change my mind: Rom-coms
By Jen Lennon, Mary Kate Carr May 6, 2024 | 2:30pm
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games Hear Me Out: Fallout 4
By Garrett Martin May 6, 2024 | 1:52pm
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film No one understands internet kids quite like Jane Schoenbrun
By Emma Keates May 6, 2024 | 12:00pm
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film Gaslight at 80, or his and hers realities
By Drew Gillis May 4, 2024 | 12:00pm
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film 11 movies to check out on Netflix this May
By Robert DeSalvo May 3, 2024 | 10:05pm
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tv So what's the deal with Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show?
By Saloni Gajjar May 3, 2024 | 2:00pm
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games Game Theory: SpongeBob Squarepants meets Dark Souls, somehow kind of rocks
By William Hughes May 3, 2024 | 1:00pm
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film 11 haunted objects in film ranked by how dumb you’d have to be to mess with them
By Jen Lennon, Saloni Gajjar, Emma Keates, Jim Vorel May 3, 2024 | 12:00pm
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film 11 movies to check out on Hulu this May
By Robert DeSalvo May 2, 2024 | 1:00pm
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games The Steam Deck Made Me Appreciate Gaming Again
By Matthew Reyes May 2, 2024 | 10:00am
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tv How Chucky's Don Mancini brilliantly reinvented his Child's Play franchise
By Saloni Gajjar May 2, 2024 | 3:00am
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film Chicago Critics Film Festival 2024: Five movies you shouldn't miss
By Jacob Oller May 1, 2024 | 2:15pm
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aux May's best Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases: Dune: Part Two, Bob Marley: One Love, and Sasquatch Sunset
By Robert DeSalvo May 1, 2024 | 11:00am
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games Nintensive Care: How 1979's Sheriff Foreshadowed Nintendo's Success
By Garrett Martin May 1, 2024 | 10:30am
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film A Tracy Flick doesn't come around every four years
By Drew Gillis April 30, 2024 | 7:29pm
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games Nintendo's Excitebots: Trick Racing Is Still Waiting to Be Rediscovered
By Marc Normandin April 30, 2024 | 3:18pm
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tv What's your favorite season of a long-running TV show—and why is it season three?
By Kayleigh Dray April 30, 2024 | 3:00pm
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film Halfway to Halloween: The 13 best horror films of the year (so far)
By Matthew Jackson April 30, 2024 | 2:00pm
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film Summer 2024 movie preview: everything else worth paying attention to
By Jen Lennon, Drew Gillis, Cindy White, Jacob Oller, Matt Schimkowitz, Saloni Gajjar April 30, 2024 | 12:00pm
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aux The Russo Brothers' vision for cinema's future doesn't account for the present
By Mary Kate Carr April 29, 2024 | 8:07pm
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aux A three year "lost media" search just ended in the funniest possible way
By Emma Keates April 29, 2024 | 6:00pm
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aux Pixar Fest Brings Familiar Faces and Fun to Disneyland
By Garrett Martin April 29, 2024 | 4:00pm
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games Revisiting Days Gone After Five More Years of American Decline
By Madeline Blondeau April 29, 2024 | 2:17pm
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tv In season 2, Velma raises a giant middle finger to its haters
By Saloni Gajjar April 29, 2024 | 2:00pm
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tv We're calling it: X-Men '97 is the greatest X-Men adaptation of all time
By William Hughes April 29, 2024 | 1:00pm
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film Summer 2024 movie preview: 15 films to watch (or avoid)
By Jen Lennon, Jacob Oller, Saloni Gajjar, Mary Kate Carr, Emma Keates, Matt Schimkowitz, Cindy White, Drew Gillis April 29, 2024 | 12:00pm
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film 12 great original film scores from rock musicians who became composers
By Cindy White April 26, 2024 | 8:44pm
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games Tales of Kenzera: ZAU Understands the Complexity of Grief
By Kate Sánchez April 26, 2024 | 2:12pm
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film May 2024 film preview: Light month brings a few heavy hitters
By Matt Schimkowitz April 26, 2024 | 2:00pm
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film The Challengers trio gets into the churros, hot dogs, and cigarettes
By Drew Gillis April 26, 2024 | 1:00pm
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music What's your go-to "the weather is getting warm" album?
By Drew Gillis, Emma Keates, Tim Lowery, Saloni Gajjar, Jen Lennon, Jacob Oller, Matt Schimkowitz, Cindy White, William Hughes, Mary Kate Carr April 26, 2024 | 1:00pm
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games Game Theory: Which Fallout game should you play, now that you've finished the show?
By William Hughes April 26, 2024 | 12:00pm
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aux Damn fine list of movies: Kyle MacLachlan shares Dale Cooper’s favorite films
By Matt Schimkowitz April 25, 2024 | 7:46pm
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games Destiny 2’s “Into The Light” Update Brought Me Back
By Matthew Reyes April 25, 2024 | 1:57pm
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tv Netflix's Baby Reindeer dares you not to look away
By Saloni Gajjar April 25, 2024 | 1:00pm
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film Abigail's marketing spoils its only twist
By Matt Schimkowitz April 24, 2024 | 8:25pm
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aux Even when Taylor Swift is winning, her fans think she's losing
By Mary Kate Carr April 24, 2024 | 4:28pm
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music 25 essential albums produced by Tony Visconti
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games Boss Rush: Sekiro’s Last Duel Is the Perfect Final Exam
By Elijah Gonzalez April 24, 2024 | 12:30pm
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film Gentlemanly warfare: Guy Ritchie's gangster etiquette in 8 films and 2 TV shows
By Cindy White April 23, 2024 | 7:48pm
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aux Brandon Scott hopes his show The Girls On The Bus offers an escape from this election cycle
By Emma Keates April 23, 2024 | 7:01pm
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games 20 Years Later, Mega Man Zero 3 Remains Brilliant, Brutal, and Eager to Snap You in Half
By Elijah Gonzalez April 23, 2024 | 1:22pm
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tv Josh Lucas on playing in Palm Royale's "fun comedy lab"
By Saloni Gajjar April 23, 2024 | 12:00pm
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film Humane nature: Director Caitlin Cronenberg and Jay Baruchel talk about finding dark humor in a time of extremes
By Brent Simon April 22, 2024 | 12:00pm
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music The 25 most essential Pearl Jam songs
By Stephen Thomas Erlewine April 20, 2024 | 12:00pm
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film Hundreds Of Beavers director Mike Cheslik on reviving the slapstick genre in the frozen Midwestern wilderness
By Cindy White April 19, 2024 | 6:05pm
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aux Should Charlie Puth be a bigger artist? A conversation
By Drew Gillis, Mary Kate Carr, Emma Keates, Saloni Gajjar April 19, 2024 | 4:37pm
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music Okay, so how about the second part of The Tortured Poets Department?
By Mary Kate Carr April 19, 2024 | 4:12pm
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games Game Theory: Hades II is already incredible, and it's barely getting started
By William Hughes April 19, 2024 | 1:00pm
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games Through its Excellent First Few Hours, Hades II Entirely Justifies the Sequel Treatment
By Elijah Gonzalez April 19, 2024 | 10:00am
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film Does it still shimmer? The A.V. Club revisits Annihilation
By Josh Jackson, Drew Gillis, Matt Schimkowitz, Mary Kate Carr, Saloni Gajjar, Emma Keates, Cindy White, Jacob Oller April 18, 2024 | 1:00pm
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tv What childhood TV shows deserve a reboot?
By Saloni Gajjar, Tim Lowery, Drew Gillis, Mary Kate Carr, Cindy White, Meredith Hobbs Coons, Jen Lennon, William Hughes April 18, 2024 | 12:00pm
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games Super Metroid Turns 30, and It's the Perfect Time for a Remaster
By Marc Normandin April 18, 2024 | 10:30am
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film The art of the training montage
By Ian Spelling April 17, 2024 | 6:34pm
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film Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead offered a dose of reality in the Nickelodeon '90s
By Matt Schimkowitz April 17, 2024 | 5:50pm
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aux Tribeca Film Festival lineup includes new projects from Kristen Stewart, Lily Gladstone, Jenna Ortega and more
By Mary Kate Carr April 17, 2024 | 4:05pm
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film Have no fear, little one: It's only 14 of horror’s most miserable little children
By Matt Schimkowitz, Saloni Gajjar, Tim Lowery, William Hughes, Jen Lennon April 17, 2024 | 1:00pm
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film John Early and Theda Hammel psychoanalyze the sordid characters in Stress Positions
By Drew Gillis April 17, 2024 | 12:00pm
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tv Anna Sawai breaks down Shōgun's gutting penultimate episode
By Saloni Gajjar April 17, 2024 | 11:00am
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tv Not even this mythic Sopranos reunion could court LeBron James to the Knicks
By Matt Schimkowitz April 17, 2024 | 1:19am
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tv O.J. and me: The Bills, the murders, the Norm jokes, and growing up under the shadow of the Juice
By Todd Lazarski April 15, 2024 | 7:00pm
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aux Conan O'Brien's gonzo Hot Ones sends the Internet Coco-crazy
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