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Dec 25, 2025
An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu.
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Dec 25, 2025
The nonfiction spy thriller "The Falcon and the Snowman," which became a film, grew out of his work as a journalist covering the West Coast for The Times.
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Dec 25, 2025
Whether you're a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
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Dec 25, 2025
Park Chan-wook, the director of "Oldboy" and "The Handmaiden," brings comedic flair to the cruel tale of an employee pushed to the brink.
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Dec 25, 2025
A spotty but thrilling tour of American art from Eisenhower to Nixon shows just how unhinged the '60s were, and how hard it is to summarize the era.
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Dec 25, 2025
Catch a lush Monet blockbuster, gorgeous Egyptian goddesses and the history of Black Broadway before they're gone.
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Dec 25, 2025
What are you doing to greet 2026? Our suggestions include fancy parties, all-night dance-a-thons, choose-your-own movie double features and a pasta-making class.
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Dec 25, 2025
The genre peaked in terms of global awareness with "KPop Demon Hunters," while the industry's most promising new act was mired in a legal morass.
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Dec 24, 2025
Her 1960 essay about the frustrations of educated women prefigured Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique." She later wrote books on John Quincy Adams and others.
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Dec 24, 2025
The actor stars as a magnetic, striving table-tennis champ in Josh Safdie's new movie, one of the most exciting movies of the year.
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Dec 24, 2025
Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet's new film, showed that he was a character in his own right.
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Dec 24, 2025
With its profanity-laced script, Lucas Hnath's Molière adaptation, starring Matthew Broderick, is a mischievous clash of the old and the new.
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Dec 24, 2025
In an extraordinary performance, Amanda Seyfried plays the founder of the Shakers in a singular film.
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Dec 24, 2025
As England goes to war, a provincial choir master played by Ralph Fiennes is challenged to find available voices in this poignant drama set in 1916.
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Dec 24, 2025
Craig Brewer's toe-tapping weepie about the triumphs and tragedies of a Neil Diamond tribute band is exactly the movie we need right now.
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Dec 24, 2025
The movie gets at least one thing right: Rebooting the shlocky, widely-panned creature-feature, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd, is a goofy idea.
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Dec 24, 2025
A stunner of a debut film follows a group of boys at a water polo camp, where an outsider is just trying to fit in.
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Dec 24, 2025
Jim Jarmusch's uneven triptych, a prizewinner at Venice, saves its best segment for last.
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Dec 24, 2025
The actor knows life is fleeting, but he wants to hold on to every moment.
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Dec 24, 2025
Kate Winslet directs a formulaic script by her son, Joe Anders, about a dying matriarch and her quarreling adult children.
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Dec 24, 2025
With a new batch of episodes arriving on Christmas Day, Matt and Ross Duffer discuss the sometimes obscure movie and video game references in the final season so far.
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Dec 24, 2025
For years she was pigeonholed as a rom-com star. Her turn as a blue-collar mom with a love of Neil Diamond just might vault her back to the Oscars.
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Dec 24, 2025
Everywhere you looked this year, men were feuding. In movies like "Splitsville," "Eddington" and "Friendship," it was gloriously pathetic.
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Dec 24, 2025
A slow start is overcome while learning about an extinct alien race that welcomed a savior.
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Dec 23, 2025
The mogul's lawyers say that a judge issued an excessively steep sentence for prostitution offenses after Mr. Combs was acquitted of more serious charges.
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Dec 23, 2025
The mogul's lawyers say that a judge issued an excessively steep sentence for prostitution offenses after Mr. Combs was acquitted of more serious charges.
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Dec 23, 2025
In his work, he often returned to Manzanar, the camp in which he and his family, along with thousands of other people of Japanese descent, were interned during World War II.
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Dec 23, 2025
Bob Vylan, a punk-rap duo, caused international outrage by chanting the message at the Glastonbury music festival this year.
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Dec 23, 2025
From Gustav Mahler to Lady Gaga, a peek into Lindsay's past 12 months in music.
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Dec 23, 2025
The actor, comedian and YouTuber now faces seven counts of rape and sexual assault in Britain.
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Dec 23, 2025
Across film ("Sinners," "One Battle After Another"), theater ("Ragtime") and TV ("The Lowdown"), four works suggested what achieving racial equality in America would take.
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Dec 23, 2025
The show reunited Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz for the first time since "Wicked." It wasn't enough to counter poor word of mouth and other challenges.
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Dec 23, 2025
We want to know why it resonated with you.
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Dec 23, 2025
Ballet Jörgen's holiday scare reaffirmed its mission: taking the art form to remote towns and outposts where most people have never seen a pas de deux.
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Dec 23, 2025
Seven takeaways from the final episodes of "The End of an Era," the Disney series exploring her globe-trotting concert extravaganza.
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Dec 23, 2025
Seven takeaways from the final episodes of "The End of an Era," the Disney series exploring her globe-trotting concert extravaganza.
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Dec 23, 2025
Usually, holiday opera is scarce on major stages in New York. But this year, there are two at Lincoln Center alone.
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Dec 23, 2025
The Metropolitan Opera has invited 70 influencers to help convince a younger, online audience that opera isn't scary or even unaffordable.
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Dec 23, 2025
A gifted Queens rapper (Lexa Gates), a noisy British band (Maruja), a Drake-approved emo songwriter (Julia Wolf), a lo-fi power-pop project (Sharp Pins) and more.
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Dec 23, 2025
Yes, "KPop Demon Hunters" makes the list. But that was just one of the standouts in a great year.
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Dec 23, 2025
Adapted from romance novels, this Canadian series has been a surprise hit for HBO Max.
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Dec 23, 2025
Adapted from romance novels, this Canadian series has been a surprise hit for HBO Max.
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Dec 23, 2025
These days, most best sellers are written by authors with household names. Not these five breakout books.
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Dec 23, 2025
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman and Rita Wilson served a platter of high-octane holiday high jinks in this unhinged 1996 comedy.
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Dec 23, 2025
The British actress's directorial debut, "Goodbye June," is based on a script written by her son and follows a fractured family reuniting in the hospital over the holidays.
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Dec 22, 2025
She was a white actress, he was a popular Black entertainer, and their relationship elicited racist reactions in 1960, including from John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign.
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Dec 22, 2025
Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, argues that only Congress is authorized to rename the D.C. performing arts institution.
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Dec 22, 2025
Two new London murals, widely attributed to the mysterious street artist, combine seasonal themes with what appears to be social commentary on rising child homelessness in Britain.
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Dec 22, 2025
Mr. Zampella co-founded two game studios and worked on the Medal of Honor, Titanfall, Apex Legends and Battlefield franchises.
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Dec 22, 2025
The Blues-influenced singer and guitarist built a lasting career, particularly in Europe, with hits that included "Driving Home for Christmas" and "Fool (If You Think It's Over)."
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Dec 22, 2025
With his producing partner, Jeffry Katz, he made lightweight ditties like "Yummy Yummy Yummy" that soared up the charts in the late 1960s.
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Dec 22, 2025
The lawsuit, against the prominent Off Broadway theater, is backed by Edward Blum, who has long challenged race-based policies. Playwrights called it "meritless."
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Dec 22, 2025
Yang, who joined the NBC sketch show in 2018, earned five Emmy nominations during his run.
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Dec 22, 2025
The "Mandy" and "Copacabana" singer said he would undergo surgery to remove a cancerous spot on his left lung, and he postponed several concert dates.
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Dec 22, 2025
Netflix's "The Price of Confession" and Hulu's "Nine Puzzles" are thrillers with complicated plots and complicated protagonists.
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Dec 22, 2025
An actor at the Dickens Museum in London is delivering dramatic performances of the classic holiday tale, just like the writer himself once did for sold-out crowds.
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Dec 22, 2025
An operatic Vivaldi pastiche, with a new story by Sarah Ruhl, offers an ambivalent message about how art can make people pay attention.
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Dec 22, 2025
This year, "Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes" pays homage to the legacy of the group, but its future seems to be more about sisterhood than dancing.
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Dec 22, 2025
Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year.
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Dec 22, 2025
Although video games are taking longer to make, a studio renowned for immersive experiences managed to release three this year.
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Dec 22, 2025
A documentary about the journalist Seymour Hersh premieres, and lots of shows wrap up their seasons.
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Dec 21, 2025
The character actor had grown up in Maryland, where "The Wire" was set, and went on to star in horror films like "It Chapter Two."
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Dec 21, 2025
The screenwriter and producer created several television hits about law enforcement. He made one of the first police dramas to star two main characters of color.
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Dec 21, 2025
At Greenwich House Theater, Greta Gertler Gold and Hilary Bell's stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay's novel hovers between reverie and reality.
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Dec 21, 2025
The institution has tried to work with the administration's demands that it present a more uplifting view of American history.
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Dec 21, 2025
The Chinese government once focused on political dissidents and exiled activists. Now, federal officials say, it is targeting artists in the United States whose creative protests test its tolerance.
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Dec 21, 2025
Hosted by Ariana Grande and featuring Cher as its musical guest, the show had plenty of holiday tunes and a satirical greeting from President Trump.
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Dec 21, 2025
Onscreen, she tends to play women fighting the patriarchy; offscreen the image she cultivates has meant conservatives consider her one of their own.
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Dec 21, 2025
Zohran Mamdani, New York's mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?
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Dec 20, 2025
A major player in the block-trading boom, he left Wall Street for the art world, winning a Jeff Koons sculpture at auction for $91 million in 2019.
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Dec 20, 2025
Yang has been part of the NBC sketch show since 2018, earning five Emmy nominations.
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Dec 20, 2025
She had been working with refugees and channeled her anger over their situation into the ferocious performance, which was filmed several years ago.
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Dec 20, 2025
Aimee Ng, the museum's new chief curator, broke out of the academic mold with a video series called "Cocktails With a Curator." Here's how she's drawing new audiences.
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Dec 20, 2025
"I don't do drugs anymore," the actor and singer said, "but when a random baby in a stroller smiles at me, it feels like I just did a bump of coke."
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Dec 20, 2025
He was a foremost authority on the president, tracing his career in unvarnished accounts from his time as California governor through his years in the White House.
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Dec 20, 2025
He was a foremost authority on the president, tracking his career from his first term as California governor through his eight years in the White House.
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Dec 19, 2025
His Pulitzer-nominated book "Graven Images" inspired a reassessment of Puritan art, challenging the belief that imagery carved on headstones was meaningless.
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Dec 19, 2025
The Kennedy Center installed President Trump's name on the facade of the arts center, which had been designated as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy.
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Dec 19, 2025
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid's romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.
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Dec 19, 2025
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid's romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.
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Dec 19, 2025
A busy designer who worked on over 100 films, he was also a racecar driver and a painter of photorealistic works, many depicting cars and their operators.
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Dec 19, 2025
Leading the acclaimed salsa group El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, he brought the music of his native island to a worldwide audience for more than 60 years.
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Dec 19, 2025
The release of a "Spinal Tap" concert film that was filmed at Stonehenge has been delayed.
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Dec 19, 2025
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research.
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Dec 19, 2025
A busy designer who worked on over 100 films, he was also a racecar driver and a painter of photorealistic works, many depicting cars and their operators.
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Dec 19, 2025
The couple are gearing up for the Broadway opening of "Bug," about a descent into paranoia and psychosis in a squalid motel room.
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Dec 19, 2025
Nearly a decade after the hit sci-fi horror series debuted, cast members including Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo and Maya Hawke gathered in New York City.
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Dec 19, 2025
Despite huge collaborations, top-selling albums and sellout tours, the leading stars of the Dominican genre still feel like they haven't received their due.
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Dec 19, 2025
In this month's picks, torrents, trolls and time travel.
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Dec 19, 2025
The final column of the year looks at the end of things — the end of the world, the end of youth — along with an underrated holiday gem.
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Dec 19, 2025
Some had wondered how the show about Abraham Lincoln's wife would fare after its creator left the Broadway cast. But mirth is abundant as it opens on the West End.
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Dec 19, 2025
Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own words — and voices. Take a listen.
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Dec 19, 2025
Two years after the assault, Marco Goecke is staging a nontraditional "Nutcracker." Ballet Basel hopes the focus will stay on his choreography.
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Dec 19, 2025
The newest chapter in the saga of the Na'vi people continues to build their highly detailed world. Here's a guide to catch you up on the developments.
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Dec 19, 2025
Whether you're a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
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Dec 19, 2025
A sport once synonymous with cable now finds its biggest matches on Netflix, Prime Video and DAZN, a European-based sports platform.
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Dec 19, 2025
Julie Taymor's abridged production of Mozart's opera has been trimmed down to 90 minutes as the Metropolitan Opera bids to recruit a new generation.
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Dec 19, 2025
Here are just a few of the year's finest indies, documentaries and international selections, available to stream at this very minute.
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Dec 19, 2025
This documentary could be better, but it offers a helpful lesson for film fans new to the movies of that decade.
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Dec 19, 2025
Museums and the consultants who advise them have been busy reviewing their own precautions in the aftermath of the brazen daylight break-in at the Louvre.
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