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[The following contains major spoilers for A Star Is Born.]

Press tours must be exhausting. Every day, actors and directors sit down for interviews, are asked variations on the same handful of questions, and have to try to think of a novel answer each time. Though the millions of dollars most of these interview subjects make for their work is typically a pretty good…

Note: This piece contains specific plot details about the A Star Is Born movies.

On Thursday’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert was clearly impressed with his first guest, singer and now movie star in the making Lady Gaga. Colbert, who’s seen a preview of Bradley Cooper’s Lady Gaga-starring A Star Is Born, was actually more like awestruck by the first-time lead actress’ performance and the film itself,…

There’s one truly great, chills-inducing scene in Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, the latest Hollywood remake of A Star Is Born. It’s the moment when all the pent-up crowd-pleasing catharsis the movie has been withholding under its ramshackle minimalism comes erupting out of it like a geyser of feeling. Ally (Lady…

This weekend, audiences have a choice. They can go see Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born or they can watch Tom Hardy in Venom. This may seem an inconsequential decision to many, but it is actually, we are starting to realize, a matter of near cosmological importance. There is darkness or light, up or down,…

Lady Gaga is drawing raves from critics—and the heavens themselves—for her turn in Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born remake, which, as in its previous iterations, updates the timeless story of a singer’s rise to fame to the tunes of our times. That means Cooper’s Jackson Maine, the fading musician who nurtures our…

There is still a little over a week until A Star Is Born hits theaters and, regardless of the quality of the rest of the film, audiences are more than ready to hear Lady Gaga sing these damn songs already. The film’s marketing team has been teasing out little bits and pieces of Gaga’s goosebump-inducing performances…

There’s one truly great, chills-inducing scene in Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, the latest Hollywood remake of A Star Is Born (Grade: B). It’s the moment when all the pent-up crowdpleasing catharsis the movie has been withholding under its ramshackle, dive-bar minimalism comes erupting out of it like a geyser of…

Attendees at this year’s Venice Film Festival were granted front-row seats to witness headline writers the world over being handed a big red bow for their coverage of the premiere of Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s new film A Star Is Born, when a giant metaphor struck the building in which it was being held.

Usually, you’re lucky if you look at a film festival lineup and see a handful of interesting movies in the mix. But this year’s Toronto International Film Fest is no ordinary beast.

A Star Is Born for the third time in the new trailer for Bradley Cooper’s remake of the classic showbiz drama, starring Lady Gaga in the role previously inhabited by Judy Garland in the 1954 original and Barbra Streisand in the 1976 remake. The plot of this one looks like it’ll hew closely to the rock ‘n’ roll angle…

Lady Gaga’s enormously popular 2009 single “Bad Romance” is nearly a decade old. In that time, the world has changed drastically, and we’ve all become much older. Even the littlest monsters have become big monsters, their Aladdin Sane makeup crusting in jars and perpetually clawed hands aching with the earliest signs…

Lady Gaga has constructed her own reality over the last decade, building a larger-than-life persona via elaborate costumes, gigantic stage shows, and an army of “little monsters” that found common ground, strangely, as outcast acolytes of one of the world’s biggest pop stars. She’s been a meat-dress-wearing fashion…