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Gene Shalit, the bushy-haired mustachioed television personality who reviewed books and movies on “The Today Show” for 40 years, died Friday. His family told NBC News he…

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Olivia Rodrigo trades pop-punk for new wave — and angst for true love (for half an album) — in her excellent third record.

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Steven Spielberg's invigorating chase thriller taps into the mania for alien conspiracy theory, but it never becomes a close encounter with wonder. It's closer to 'Alien Autopsy' with better lighting.
DISCLOSURE DAY, foreground, first four from left: Colman Domingo, Tommy Martinez, Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor; far right: Priyanka Kedia, 2026. © Universal Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection

The Wayans brothers' horror-spoof franchise is now riding shotgun on the commercial power of the 'Scream' series. The sixth 'Scary Movie' has a few choice gags, but mostly it's so meta it's meh.
Marlon Wayans plays Shorty in Scary Movie from Paramount Pictures.

Nicholas Galitzine lends spark to a bloated Mattel nostalgia trip. It will raise chuckles from those with fond memories of He-Man, but after 140 minutes it feels time to put away childish things.
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Experimental horror comes out of the margins in Kane Parsons' YouTube-gone-A24 head trip. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a furniture-store owner in a film that turns memes into a moody freakout.
Backrooms

Guy Ritchie delivers a perfect origin story for Sherlock Holmes.
Young Sherlock TV Show Review

The 'Yellowstone' spinoff turns the Taylor Sheridan franchise into a workman-like CBS procedural.
Luke Grimes and Logan Marshall Green in 'Marshals'

The HBO series is a perversely hilarious spin on an erotic thriller.
Jason Bateman, David Harbour, Linda Cardellini

Bruno Mars makes a leisure suit of a record, doubling down on Silk Sonic's hermetically sealed '70s revivalism.
Bruno Mars 'The Romantic' album review

Brent Faiyaz uncorks an instant-vintage serving of sultry R&B.
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A$AP Rocky steps back into the arena, all the wiser, on his ambitious album.
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Jefferson Mays shines as a funny and frothing Salieri in a gorgeously mounted, essential revival.
'Amadeus' at the Pasadena Playhouse

Carrie Coon's gutting performance elevates this horror thriller.
Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood in "Bug"

Only nominally related to the Blumhouse horror franchise, the haunted-house show ditches hidden cameras for live scares.
Paranormal Activity

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A view of the Directors Guild of America building in Los Angeles, California on December 17, 2021.

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