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A new play from James Ijames, who won a Pulitzer for his 'Fat Ham,' has intriguing ideas about identity and community that never fully take shape. In the immortal words [...]

Two sisters get transported to a new world and transformed into cats in this whimsical and thoughtful animated feature. You can discover a lot about a fantasy world from its [...]

From ''Beetlejuice'' to its sequel, these are the actresses and roles that made us embrace the darkness. Is it just fashion? No, it's an attitude, a lifestyle. And a beloved [...]

A new theatrical experience in the Financial District is composed of 25 individual stories, but it's hard to make sense of any of them. In one room in Conwell Tower, [...]

A new theatrical experience in the Financial District is composed of 25 individual stories, but it's hard to make sense of any of them. In one room in Conwell Tower, [...]

Shots of extravagantly composed dishes have become cliché. ''The Bear'' and two other summer releases use well-plated food to convey darker themes. We love sexy food: the dressed-up dishes on [...]

Making fun of schlocky, overwrought superhero movies used to be the Deadpool signature. But with 'Deadpool & Wolverine,' and Disney's push into the Marvel Universe, that thread is lost. Deadpool […]

The star of ''Ripley'' and ''All of Us Strangers'' has become one of our most reliably excellent actors. There are some actors who always, no matter the size of their [...]

Ncuti Gatwa shined as the 15th Doctor. But the long-running show feels at a crossroads as it concludes its latest season. ''Doctor Who'' is a show of paradoxes. At its [...]

In a way that's both cathartic and devastating, Pixar's latest portrays how anxiety can take hold, our critic writes. At the climax of Pixar's ''Inside Out 2,'' Riley, a freshly [...]

A somber yet witty play set in 18th-century England is a clever perversion of a courtroom drama that features strong performances from an ensemble cast. The final word of ''The [...]

This film extends the story told in an anime series about high school volleyball teams. For someone unfamiliar with ''Haikyu!!,'' the anime adaptation of a slice-of-life manga about a high [...]

The Disney+ animated series builds on its 1990s predecessor, exploring themes of prejudice and change through the world of Professor Charles Xavier and his mutant pupils. Saturday mornings were sacred [...]

Recent releases like ''American Fiction'' and ''The American Society of Magical Negroes'' have used absurdist humor to examine race. But they have also depicted narrow views of Blackness. In 2017, [...]

Alternating between funny and bleak, the Public Theater's latest production tackles race and the modern workplace. The workplace in ''Jordans,'' an ambitious but unwieldy new play at the Public Theater, [...]

One of Shakespeare's most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington. ''Macbeth'' isn't one of Shakespeare's so-called ''problem plays,'' and yet, the vast contradictions [...]

Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on ''The Wizard of Oz'' tries to update its original formula. Let me start with a confession: I've never liked [...]

The creator of ''Dragon Ball'' helped bring anime to the world. Its main character became a cultural phenomenon. ''It's over 9,000'' is perhaps the most popular line in the English [...]

The Oscar best picture hopefuls ''Barbie'' and ''Poor Things'' look nothing alike, but their central characters go on similar journeys. One takes place in a bright, plastic world where everything [...]

Netflix's latest attempt to capture the magic of a beloved animated series has some strong performances but falls well short of the original. Nickelodeon's 2005 series ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'' [...]

Many of this year's films take a darker turn, but there is some levity among the bunch. The Oscar-nominated short films are being presented in three programs : live action, [...]

On Netflix's ''Pokémon Concierge,'' the hyperactivity of the original gives way to soothing sights and tones that can help grown-up fans calm down. Welcome to Pokémon Resort, where you and [...]

As Ncuti Gatwa makes his proper debut, we take a look back at the recent history of those to inhabit the TARDIS. With most TV shows, a major casting change [...]

''Mad Max'' gets a prequel, ''The Wiz'' returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale. The Met Looks to Right a Historic Wrong Early in [...]

Audiences are showing fatigue when it comes to Marvel's box office behemoths of recent years. Based on what they were served in 2023, it's hard to blame them. At the [...]

For our critic-at-large, the year was marked by the Black excellence of ''Purlie Victorious,'' the brutality of ''Bottoms'' and rage of ''Beef.'' For me, 2023 was a year of entertainment [...]

When characters take flight in the films of the master animator, there is always a deeper meaning. Few filmmakers can claim the same heights of whimsy, artistry and storytelling as [...]

Not quite a reboot or a sequel, this anime series brings back the cast of the beloved ''Scott Pilgrim'' movie but lands without the same charm. Did you know that [...]

''Jaja's African Hair Braiding'' is a play where the Black women in the audience are the ones who feel most at home. In a scene in Jocelyn Bioh's ''Jaja's African [...]

The playwright Renae Simone Jarrett makes her professional stage debut with a surreal reworking of a Greek myth about a river nymph. A crying baby pulled from a kitchen cabinet, [...]

An exploration of how faith intersects with Black womanhood, through a mix of music, movement, ritual and poetry. ''Is this a church?,'' a character wonders in nicHi douglas's ''(pray).'' The [...]

For one critic, every encounter with this Shakespeare play deepens her understanding of its insights into grief, family and gender. A few weeks ago two friends and I were talking [...]

Netflix's breakout global hit does right by its characters by getting actors who capture the spirit of the original. When Iñaki Godoy smiles as Monkey D. Luffy in Netflix's live-action [...]

The hero vs. bully template made famous in the '80s gets subverted in this indie comedy, as well as in Hulu's ''Miguel Wants to Fight.'' You know the setup: one [...]

From ''The Idol'' to ''Oppenheimer,'' women's bodies were on display on our screens the past few months. Some executions succeeded with humor, others felt misguided. This has been a summer [...]

The plot is boilerplate and the superhero is not particularly compelling. At least his family members steal the show. Here's what Warner Bros. and DC think we need: another superhero [...]

This immersive staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic invites audience members to join the party, but the pathos of the novel is stretched too thin. There ain't no party like [...]

The Adult Swim series, from the acclaimed animator Genndy Tartakovsky, wraps up its first season this week. Our critic breaks down his other shows. On Friday, ''Unicorn: Warriors Eternal,'' the [...]

The magician Steve Cuiffo and the playwright Lucas Hnath try to find the reality beneath the illusions in this Atlantic Theater Company production. Magicians often get a bad rap. After [...]

The magician Steve Cuiffo and the playwright Lucas Hnath try to find the reality beneath the illusions in this Atlantic Theater Company production. Magicians often get a bad rap. After [...]

With a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway's shows, performers and creative teams. ''I'm live and unscripted,'' Ariana DeBose, the host of this [...]

This charming sequel to the 2018 animated movie expands the multiverse concept, without shamelessly capitalizing on fan service. Question: How many Spider-Men does it take to make a successful multiverse [...]

A family processes its bereavement in the midst of a demonic haunting in Keelay Gipson's new play for Bushwick Starr. When Danily, a red-furred, purple-lipped beast, appears onstage, his giant [...]

Over the last few years, TV has offered portraits of female rage that are striking within a culture that still prefers women to carry their anger calmly and silently. In [...]

For the fragile souls in this new play, presented by Steven Soderbergh, a Buddhist group that once offered them solace loses its way. ''This is the weather ... and we're [...]

Colette Robert's play takes aim at antiquated rites of passage, and how they can promote classism, colorism and retrograde gender politics. The enterprising president of the Harriet Holland Social Club [...]

Jesse Green, the chief theater critic, and Maya Phillips, a critic-at-large, name the shows and artists who they think will win, should win and should have been nominated for this [...]

This dour, visually off-putting two-and-a-half-hour A.S.P.C.A. nightmare of a film may only be for completionist fans. Animal lovers, comic book fans and unofficial adjudicators of narrative continuity, action and style [...]

In a production decidedly for grown-ups, Tanya Perez's one-woman show draws on her life as a professional clown (and occasional stripper). According to Tanya Perez, the writer and performer of [...]

Anna Deavere Smith: I have a mentee named Samora Pinderhughes [who's a musician and multidisciplinary artist], and he does an exercise with my N.Y.U. class where he brings in jazz [...]