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Best TV Shows of 2021
Variety's TV critics Daniel D'Addario and Caroline Framke choose the best TV shows of the year, including "Succession," "The Underground Railroad," "Hacks" and more.
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'RuPaul's Drag Race' Announces Season 14 Cast, Including First Straight Male Contestant
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” will return for Season 14 with a two-part premiere on Friday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, VH1 announced on Thursday. A gaggle of 14 queens will vie for the $100,000 grand…
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Don’t Count Out Chris Cuomo at CNN
As the first holiday feature film starring drag queens, VH1's "The Bitch Who Stole Christmas" aims to expand the "RuPaul's Drag Race" brand.
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‘Annie Live!’ Review
"Annie Live!," starring Celina Smith as its optimistic orphan, made its goofy eagerness to be liked, and its occasional raggedness, into assets.
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‘Santa Inc.’
Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman star in HBO Max's animated series, which delivers calculated raunchiness.
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‘Coming Out Colton’
Netflix's reality show "Coming Out Colton" sidesteps "Bachelor" star Colton Underwood's real story.
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‘Hawkeye’
Marvel's 'Hawkeye,' starring Hailee Steinfeld and Jeremy Renner, needs more room to develop a voice of its own outside the MCU.
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‘The Wheel of Time’
Amazon Prime Video's new series, starring Rosamund Pike in a cryptic role, suffers from too much story, told too hurriedly.
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‘West Side Story’
Steven Spielberg makes the 1957 musical his own and stays true to what generations have loved about it. But he can't solve its last-act problems.
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‘Nightmare Alley’
Guillermo del Toro assembles a dream ensemble for a tip-top sideshow attraction, including Cate Blanchett as an icy femme fatale.
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‘The Beatles: Get Back’
A heady expansion of the "Get Back" footage becomes a momentous diary of the group's greatness.
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‘Red Rocket’
"The Florida Project" director Sean Baker turns his attention to Texas City, where a washed-up porn star plots his next move.
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Adele's '30'
Adele offers her most harrowing, unflinching songs yet on "30," but she's having more fun than ever before on some of the tracks, too.
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‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’
An assessment of all nine of the "Red (Taylor's Version)" "vault" numbers, including a 10-minute "All Too Well" that was worth the wait.
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‘Evening With Silk Sonic’
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak's "Evening With Silk Sonic" elevates the throwback song to a whole new level.
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ABBA’s ‘Voyage’
"Voyage," ABBA's first album in nearly 40 years, is so timelessly ABBA-esque that it could have come out any time in the past four decades.
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‘The Visitor’
In this world premiere by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey at the Public Theater, the story centers the wrong character.
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‘Morning Sun’
Stunning performances humanize Simon Stephens' play "Morning Sun," an earnest if bland love letter to a fundamentally unremarkable woman.
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‘Pride and Prejudice (sort of*)’
"Pride and Prejudice (sort of*)" is a smart, riotously funny take on the 19th century's blueprint rom-com that incorporates karaoke tunes.
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‘Caroline, or Change’
Roundabout Theatre Company presents a timely revival of the musical by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori.
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Don’t Count Out Chris Cuomo at CNN
In another year or on another network, the anchor's career would be toast right now, but this is CNN circa 2021
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Hey Academy, ‘Don’t Look Up’: Leonardo DiCaprio and Ariana Grande Are About to Crash Awards Season
Netflix's last awards season hopeful, "Don't Look Up," drops Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Ariana Grande into the Oscar race.