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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.

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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.
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Nicholas Galitzine lends some 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

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas star in John Carney's most winning pop-music drama since 'Once.' It's got the pretty chords you expect from a Carney film, but it also has the discord of true drama.
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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.
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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.
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STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW - BROADWAY. (L-R) T.R. Knight as Victor Creel, Louis McCartney as Henry Creel, and Rosie Benton as Virginia Creel in Netflix’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow at Marquis Theatre on Broadway. Photo Cr. Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman/Netflix

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