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A surplus of hotness doesn't sink this winning riff on Much Ado About Nothing.

At an age when many rappers start running out of gas, the man born Michael Render formed Run the Jewels with El-P and became an unlikely hip-hop superhero. With this year's Michael, his first solo album in over a decade, he tapped back into his ATLien roots with songs steeped in gospel and Southern soul. “I wanted to prove, like Serena Williams, I'm good in doubles or singles,” he says. “I came for the trophy.”

As Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White’s The Iron Claw climbs into the Oscar-season ring, we’re breaking down the best and worst performances in the only acting category where it makes sense to compare Oliver Platt, Alison Brie, and Mickey Rourke.

Author Nick McDonell talks to GQ columnist Chris Black about his new book, Quiet Street: On American Privilege: “People of means want to talk to me, and I get the sense that sometimes they want me to say what they're doing is okay.”

The Flying Wig singer-songwriter shares his picks.

There is currently no Academy Award for “deepest commitment to the bit,” but the Baby Goose appears to be campaigning for it anyway.

From streaming sensations like Red, White & Royal Blue to prestige films like All of Us Strangers, gay intimacy was suddenly everywhere on film and TV this year.

He was a rapper's rapper, a fashion icon, and a talent too big and unruly to fit the music industry's dumbed-down mold. Now he's sober, living peacefully outside Austin, Texas—and ready to talk about his bracing new album Quaranta, which documents one of the darkest periods of his life.

Casting a new Kang will be hard. Building up a certain classic Fantastic Four antagonist as the Big Bad for the next Avengers films might be even harder. Let's consider Marvel's options.

In the third season of AppleTV+'s Slow Horses and his Presidential cameo in Oppenheimer, Oldman let his nastiness off its leash, to delightful effect.

Embracing transparency like never before, the streamer has dropped the first in a series of biannual reports on what Netflix users chilled in front of during the first 6 months of this year. Here's what's in it.

The Office Hours Live host picks his films, song, podcast and novel of the year.

She was already an Oscar-winning actor, but in 2023, Stone brought her talent and her clout to risky, unique projects, taking big swings and connecting every time.

Vincent Cassel, Eva Green, and more star in a legitimately thrilling new take on an old classic.

Goodnight, sweet misanthrope! The upcoming season of the iconic HBO series will be its last.

From the stage to Homicide to Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the actor kept adding new dimensions to his screen persona. His death at 61 leaves us wondering where he would have gone from here.