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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 [...]

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 [...]

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'' [...]

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 [...]

Two best friends have princess dreams and witchy nightmares in this adaptation of Soman Chainani's book series. Light versus dark. Hero versus villain. Good versus evil. Sound familiar? It should [...]

For decades, fans have hoped for an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman story, a seminal work in the world of comics and beyond. A series version arrives Friday on Netflix. [...]

The latest Disney+ superhero show embraced chaos in its storytelling. Is Marvel willing to do the same within its ever expanding universe of films and TV shows? One thing Marvel [...]

An emotional episode of ''The Midnight Gospel'' on Netflix helped our critic process her own fears about loneliness and loss. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New [...]

A lusty new production is both an enticement and a warning as we tentatively explore intimacy after a year of forced solitude. What will be the idiom, in my modest [...]

In the Disney+ series, Wanda Maximoff has depth and power, a turn for the Marvel world. But she faces a familiar dilemma: Hero work or domestic bliss? This article contains [...]

The bizarre animated series creatively blended the beautiful with the grotesque, pop culture with pathos. In another life I would have written a book called ''Of Monsters and Mutts.'' Why? [...]

The HBO series, which just wrapped up its first season, aimed to upend stereotypes and create a heroic Black story set in Jim Crow America. But it delivered a muddled [...]

Scenes of racist brutality both real, in news videos, and imagined, in series like ''The Boys,'' can veer between exposure and exploitation. But sometimes we need to pay the price [...]