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film The A.V. Club's favorite film performances of 2021
By Baraka Kaseko, A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Sam Barsanti, William Hughes, Gabrielle Sanchez, Alex McLevy, Saloni Gajjar, Matt Schimkowitz December 20, 2021 | 6:00am
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tv HBO’s Reopening Night traces the return of Central Park’s Shakespeare In The Park
By Saloni Gajjar December 20, 2021 | 6:00am
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tv Yellowjackets embraces the supernatural and is all the better for it
By Leila Latif December 20, 2021 | 4:00am
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tv Dexter: New Blood hits its peak with a thrilling episode heavy on mythology
By Joshua Alston December 20, 2021 | 3:00am
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aux Spider-Man: No Way Home is a menace at the weekend box office
By Sam Barsanti December 19, 2021 | 10:43pm
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aux The Good Place, The Old Guard, and Hades all won Hugo Awards
By Sam Barsanti December 19, 2021 | 8:30pm
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film Joy Ride is catnip for stand-up comedy nerds
By Craig D. Lindsey December 19, 2021 | 6:00pm
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aux Rapper Drakeo The Ruler fatally stabbed at L.A. music festival
By Sam Barsanti December 19, 2021 | 5:49pm
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tv Paul Rudd tries to keep baby-crazy grandmas Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant on-message
By Dennis Perkins December 19, 2021 | 9:41am
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tv Paul Rudd and a skeleton crew brave a pandemic-emptied SNL, since the show must go on
By Dennis Perkins December 19, 2021 | 9:14am
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tv Yellowstone prequel 1883 rips the rose-colored veneer off of frontier stories
By Terry Terrones December 19, 2021 | 8:00am
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tv Yellowstone prequel 1883 starts its long journey westward as the final season of Claws premieres
By Sulagna Misra December 19, 2021 | 6:00am
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aux Saturday Night Live will have a limited cast and no live audience due to Omicron spike
By Andrew Paul December 18, 2021 | 10:27pm
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aux Man "owns the libs" by purposefully getting kicked off plane for wearing thong face mask
By Andrew Paul December 18, 2021 | 9:25pm
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aux Jay Johnston reportedly fired from Bob's Burgers for attending the Capitol riots
By Andrew Paul December 18, 2021 | 9:20pm
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aux R.I.P. Eve Babitz, writer and iconic chronicler of Hollywood excess and glamor
By Andrew Paul December 18, 2021 | 8:36pm
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film What Do We See When We Look At The Sky? is one of the most entrancing, inventive films of the year
By Lawrence Garcia December 18, 2021 | 6:00pm
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aux Chris Noth dropped by agency amid sexual assault allegations
By Andrew Paul December 18, 2021 | 5:07pm
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tv The Shrink Next Door’s producers take us inside that “smashing” finale
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2021 | 12:00pm
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film All the Spider-Man movies, ranked from worst to best
By A.A. Dowd December 18, 2021 | 6:00am
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aux HBO Max's Head Of The Class reboot is dead
By Sam Barsanti December 18, 2021 | 2:53am
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aux In a rare move, DC's Blue Beetle movie is skipping HBO Max and going straight to theaters
By Sam Barsanti December 18, 2021 | 12:50am
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aux Jennifer Beals didn't know she was in The Book Of Boba Fett, just that it was a Star Wars thing
By Sam Barsanti December 17, 2021 | 11:13pm
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aux Amazon succinctly explains the premise of new Charlie Day/Jenny Slate movie with memes
By Sam Barsanti December 17, 2021 | 9:21pm
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aux CBS' Ghosts pauses production after positive COVID case on set
By Gabrielle Sanchez December 17, 2021 | 8:47pm
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aux Barack Obama's list of favorite music this year includes Mitski, Parquet Courts, and Courtney Barnett
By Tatiana Tenreyro December 17, 2021 | 8:08pm
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film Frankie Faison is gripping in this infuriating true story of murderous police injustice
By Craig D. Lindsey December 17, 2021 | 8:00pm
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aux The Crown wraps production early for the holidays due to COVID cases
By Victoria Edel December 17, 2021 | 7:37pm
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aux Doja Cat says she has no plans to work with Dr. Luke again
By Tatiana Tenreyro December 17, 2021 | 6:28pm
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games Let’s kill Santa!
By William Hughes December 17, 2021 | 6:00pm
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aux Spider-Man: No Way Home sets pandemic record with $50 million Thursday box office
By Victoria Edel December 17, 2021 | 5:56pm
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aux Tim Burton recruits Danny Elfman for Netflix's Wednesday theme
By Gabrielle Sanchez December 17, 2021 | 5:30pm
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aux Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn says a reboot is coming in two years
By Victoria Edel December 17, 2021 | 5:10pm
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tv Claws’ eventful, yet somewhat uneven final season puts relationships to the test
By Shannon Miller December 17, 2021 | 5:00pm
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aux Alec Baldwin’s phone to be turned over to police as part of Rust investigation
By Gabrielle Sanchez December 17, 2021 | 4:45pm
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aux Paul Rudd prepares to join the Five-Timers Club in this week's SNL promo
By Dennis Perkins December 17, 2021 | 4:17pm
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tv The A.V. Club’s favorite TV episodes of 2021
By Baraka Kaseko, Danette Chavez, Sam Barsanti, William Hughes, Gabrielle Sanchez, Shanicka Anderson, Matt Schimkowitz, Gwen Ihnat, A.A. Dowd December 17, 2021 | 4:10pm
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aux Zoe Lister-Jones accuses Chris Noth of "sexually inappropriate" behavior
By Tatiana Tenreyro December 17, 2021 | 3:01pm
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film American Underdog is inoffensive, which is about the best you could ask of a Christian football movie
By Katie Rife December 17, 2021 | 2:00pm
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film Discussing our favorite movies of 2021
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife December 17, 2021 | 1:00pm
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tv The Wheel Of Time pauses for a breather before heading to the Eye
By Zack Handlen December 17, 2021 | 1:00pm
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tv Anderson Cooper does shots with Stephen Colbert while discussing Chris Cuomo's firing
By Dennis Perkins December 17, 2021 | 11:19am
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games The 15 Best Board Games of 2021
By Keith Law December 17, 2021 | 8:00am
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film On falling in love with The Family Stone
By Caroline Siede December 17, 2021 | 6:00am
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games Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator wants to piss you off
By William Hughes December 17, 2021 | 6:00am
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tv Henry Cavill and his glorious wig return for The Witcher’s second season
By Saloni Gajjar December 17, 2021 | 6:00am
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aux Here's everything coming to Prime Video and IMDb TV in January 2022
By Sam Barsanti December 16, 2021 | 11:57pm
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aux Here's what's coming to Disney Plus in January 2022
By Sam Barsanti December 16, 2021 | 10:33pm
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aux Here's everything coming to and leaving Hulu in January 2022
By Gabrielle Sanchez December 16, 2021 | 10:15pm
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aux Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer are back for the final season of Killing Eve in first-look images
By Gabrielle Sanchez December 16, 2021 | 9:26pm
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aux American passwords are extremely hackable, surprising nobody
By Andrew Paul December 16, 2021 | 9:00pm
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film With just two storylines, The Holiday paid tribute to the entire rom-com genre
By Caroline Siede December 16, 2021 | 9:00pm
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aux NBC finally convinced Sam Waterston to return for its new Law & Order revival
By Sam Barsanti December 16, 2021 | 8:56pm
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film There are shades of Elm Street and Videodrome in the great sleeper horror movie of 2021
By Jason Shawhan December 16, 2021 | 8:00pm
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film Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum have a meta romantic adventure in this trailer for The Lost City
By Sam Barsanti December 16, 2021 | 7:51pm
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aux Ben Stiller's Severance thriller series offers a new solution to work-life balance in teaser trailer
By Gabrielle Sanchez December 16, 2021 | 7:48pm
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aux Guillermo del Toro explains the plot of his scrapped Pacific Rim sequel
By Victoria Edel December 16, 2021 | 7:19pm
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aux Hilary Duff is tired of Tinder dates in the first How I Met Your Father trailer
By Victoria Edel December 16, 2021 | 6:57pm
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film Sing 2 is sufferable only in comparison to the last tuneless round of cartoon karaoke
By Charles Bramesco December 16, 2021 | 6:00pm
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aux Sex And The City star Chris Noth accused of sexual assault by two women
By Victoria Edel December 16, 2021 | 5:52pm
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aux Warner Bros. insists, again, that it will not go back to the day-and-date HBO Max strategy in 2022
By Sam Barsanti December 16, 2021 | 5:33pm
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aux Megan Thee Stallion signs major first-look deal with Netflix
By Gabrielle Sanchez December 16, 2021 | 4:51pm
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tv In South Park: Post COVID: The Return Of COVID, the villains don’t know that they’re villains
By Dan Caffrey December 16, 2021 | 4:28pm
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aux Bruce Springsteen sells entire music catalog for $500 million
By Gabrielle Sanchez December 16, 2021 | 4:20pm
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tv 5 To Watch: Vintage Christmas specials for an old-fashioned holiday
By Gwen Ihnat December 16, 2021 | 4:00pm
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aux Jeff Garlin will not return to ABC's The Goldbergs following HR investigations
By Gabrielle Sanchez December 16, 2021 | 3:25pm
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music With her two new EPs, Tierra Whack remains unpredictable as ever
By Gabrielle Sanchez December 16, 2021 | 2:00pm
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tv And Just Like That… unearths a classic Carrie rivalry
By Gwen Ihnat December 16, 2021 | 2:00pm
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games The 20 Best Xbox Games of 2021
By Garrett Martin, Paste Staff December 16, 2021 | 2:00pm
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tv Star Trek: Discovery doesn't have much to say about politics
By Zack Handlen December 16, 2021 | 1:00pm
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tv Station Eleven’s three-part premiere offers little escapism
By Sulagna Misra December 16, 2021 | 1:00pm
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film The Novice is basically Black Swan for the college rowing crowd
By Craig D. Lindsey December 16, 2021 | 12:30pm
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tv This week’s Hawkeye served Yelena Belova a lot better than the end of the Black Widow movie
By Sam Barsanti December 16, 2021 | 12:00pm
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tv Denzel Washington will say "Macbeth" any damn time he pleases
By Dennis Perkins December 16, 2021 | 11:08am
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games Cyberpunk 2077, The Outer Worlds, and Mainstream Sci-fi Games' Lack of Imagination
By Kevin Fox Jr. December 16, 2021 | 9:30am
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tv Before opening The Book Of Boba Fett, let’s look at the man beneath the helmet
By Sam Barsanti December 16, 2021 | 6:00am
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tv Station Eleven, a show about a pandemic, finally premieres after being delayed… by the pandemic
By Sulagna Misra December 16, 2021 | 6:00am
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tv The Gang goes to Ireland, as season 15 of It’s Always Sunny hits its stride
By Dennis Perkins December 16, 2021 | 4:03am
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tv After all those twists, Survivor 41 delivers a historically lackluster finale
By Myles McNutt December 16, 2021 | 3:44am
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film In a different world, Keanu Reeves might have been known to us as "Chuck Spadina"
By Reid McCarter December 15, 2021 | 11:00pm
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film Swan Song wastes Mahershala Ali and a promising Eternal Sunshine-like sci-fi premise
By Vikram Murthi December 15, 2021 | 10:40pm
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aux Netflix's Crime Scene focuses on The Times Square Killer in trailer for the upcoming season
By Gabrielle Sanchez December 15, 2021 | 10:15pm
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film Ben Affleck is the only thing remotely intoxicating about George Clooney’s The Tender Bar
By Jesse Hassenger December 15, 2021 | 10:00pm
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aux Ted Lasso gets even more wholesome with a Rankin/Bass-inspired Christmas special
By Tatiana Tenreyro December 15, 2021 | 10:00pm
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film The Viewing Booth is an illuminating depiction of a literal media bubble
By Noel Murray December 15, 2021 | 10:00pm
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music Holiday hip-hop was missing its third king—then came “Christmas In Harlem”
By Clayton Purdom December 15, 2021 | 10:00pm
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film The Lost Daughter is a haunting, astute drama about how much it sucks to be a mom
By Noel Murray December 15, 2021 | 9:45pm
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aux Daisy Ridley to star in and produce indie film Sometimes I Think About Dying
By Victoria Edel December 15, 2021 | 9:29pm
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music George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" gets an official music video starring pretty much everyone
By Andrew Paul December 15, 2021 | 8:56pm
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aux Hulu gives first look at Amanda Seyfried as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout
By Tatiana Tenreyro December 15, 2021 | 8:51pm
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games Just a guy reloading various household objects as if they're first-person shooter weapons
By Reid McCarter December 15, 2021 | 8:00pm
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aux The Beatles wanted to star in their own Lord Of The Rings musical film
By Tatiana Tenreyro December 15, 2021 | 7:47pm
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aux HBO renews Bill Simmons' Music Box doc collection for a second season
By Victoria Edel December 15, 2021 | 7:14pm
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aux Keanu Reeves reveals if he'd rather be Neo or John Wick
By Victoria Edel December 15, 2021 | 6:37pm
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aux R.I.P. bell hooks, trailblazing critical thinker, author, and activist
By Tatiana Tenreyro, Gabrielle Sanchez December 15, 2021 | 6:32pm
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tv The Tampa Bay Times is inviting readers to celebrate Festivus by writing in their complaints
By Reid McCarter December 15, 2021 | 6:00pm
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aux Javier Bardem also wanted to back out of Being the Ricardos
By Victoria Edel December 15, 2021 | 5:09pm
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tv Hawkeye celebrates “girls night!”
By Caroline Siede December 15, 2021 | 5:00pm
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aux Here's what's coming to and leaving Netflix in January 2022
By Tatiana Tenreyro December 15, 2021 | 4:28pm
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games All the New Switch Games Announced at Nintendo's Indie World Showcase
By Kevin Fox Jr. December 15, 2021 | 4:20pm
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tv Peacock’s MacGruber revival is the wrong kind of overkill
By Jesse Hassenger December 15, 2021 | 4:00pm
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aux Hawkeye: Kate Bishop is a step backward for the new MCU hero
By Oliver Sava December 15, 2021 | 2:00pm
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film The best movie scenes of 2021
By A.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Noel Murray, Charles Bramesco, Vikram Murthi, Jesse Hassenger, Mike D'Angelo, Caroline Siede, Leila Latif, Lawrence Garcia, Carlos Aguilar December 15, 2021 | 1:30pm
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tv Will Forte and Seth Meyers MacGruber some cocktails and wreck up their day-drinking spot
By Dennis Perkins December 15, 2021 | 10:50am
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games Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator Is Exactly What It Says It Is. It's Also Great.
By Moises Taveras December 15, 2021 | 10:35am
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books The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2021
By Laura Adamczyk, Erin Somers, Bradley Babendir, Danette Chavez, Alex McLevy, Rien Fertel December 15, 2021 | 6:00am
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tv Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian drama The Hand Of The God premieres on Netflix
By Saloni Gajjar December 15, 2021 | 6:00am
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aux Look at the famous people in this Machine Gun Kelly movie that is definitely not about Mac Miller
By Sam Barsanti December 15, 2021 | 3:48am
