Don’t Call It a Restart
The NBA Bubble has been tremendously compelling television
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It’s Time To Play the Music
‘Muppets Now’ is missing the best thing about the Muppets–the songs. Here are some classic clips.
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‘This is My America’ Takes On Racial Inequality
A fast-paced, effective debut YA novel about inequities in the criminal-justice system
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The Old and the Distanced
Coronavirus hasn’t stopped everything: What is and isn’t in production right now
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Where Have All The Tomboys Gone?
Journalist Lisa Selin Davis rehabilitates a vanishing term for a certain type of girl
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‘Shameless’ Loses Focus
Ten seasons in, viewers are starting to wonder what’s going on
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‘Utopia Avenue’ Rocks Too Softly
David Mitchell’s new novel could use more noise
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‘Luster’ is More Than Just Another Rom-Com
Sharply-observed debut novel lingers in discomfort
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Man Out of Brine
In ‘An American Pickle,’ Seth Rogen Struggles With Jewish Identity, and With Seth Rogen
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Pete Hamill, RIP
Memories and mysteries of one of the greatest American journalists
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I Don’t Care If I Never Get Back
Weird rules, masked baserunners, piped-in sound, cardboard cutouts of dogs, whatever, it’s still baseball
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‘Cursed’ is a Feminist Arthurian Jumble
Netflix show imagines what would have happened if the Lady Of The Lake wielded Excalibur
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The Beat Goes On
Documentary revives the reputation of the Go-Go’s, one of the great bands of the 80s
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A Good Day to Twi-Hard
In ‘Midnight Sun,’ Edward Cullen is a weirdo stalker and the werewolves are still savage, but Twilight fans won’t care
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‘Host’ Captures the Horror of Right Now
A movie shot only on Zoom, starring actors trapped in their houses
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