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Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt in <em>Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning</em>.

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Mission: Impossible's overblown 'Final Reckoning' still thrills

The two hour, 49 minute conclusion to the seven-sequel franchise is self-congratulatory and inanely plotted. But, as always, it's fun to watch Tom Cruise, now 62, execute eye-popping stunts.

May 23, 2025
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  • John Powers
Joe Biden attends a roundtable session at the G7 world leaders summit in Italy, June 13, 2024.

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In 'Original Sin,' Jake Tapper describes a 'cover-up' of Joe Biden's decline

Tapper's book, co-authored by Alex Thompson, describes a president who struggled to function: "One person told us that the presidency was, at best, a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman."

May 20, 2025
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  • Terry Gross

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'The Emperor of Gladness' is a beautiful novel about hard work and found family

Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with dementia.

May 19, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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  • Theater

Mary Todd Lincoln as a cabaret star? How Cole Escola's 'stupid' dream came true

Escola gives the former first lady a wild second act in the Tony-nominated play Oh, Mary! "This play is about a woman with a dream that no one around her understands," Escola says.

May 19, 2025
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  • Ann Marie Baldonado
Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao) experiences romance and heartbreak in <em>Caught by the Tides.</em>

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'Caught by the Tides' turns discarded documentary scraps into a remarkable drama

This documentary-drama hybrid is one of the best new movies our critic's seen this year. It draws on archival footage to tell a story of two lovers separating and reuniting over roughly two decades.

May 15, 2025
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  • Justin Chang
Ramy Youssef says becoming a comic was just "inevitable at a certain point." His new animated Amazon Prime series is <em>#1 Happy Family USA.</em>

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Sept. 11 turns life upside down for a 'Happy Family' in Ramy Youssef's animated show

Youssef was in fifth grade and living in New Jersey when the Twin Towers fell. His new show, #1 Happy Family USA, draws on the experiences of his own Egyptian American family during that tense time.

May 13, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
McBride, a Georgia native, has seen how Hollywood traffics in stereotypes about the American South. His HBO show satirizes televangelists without making religious people the butt of the joke.

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Danny McBride sends a love letter to the South with 'The Righteous Gemstones'

McBride, a Georgia native, has seen how Hollywood traffics in stereotypes about the American South. His HBO show satirizes televangelists without making religious people the butt of the joke.

May 12, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
Florence Pugh plays Yelena Belova in <em>Thunderbolts*</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

'Thunderbolts*' is an unwieldy jumble, and also the best Marvel film in a while

Thunderbolts* is unapologetically formulaic. And yet, Florence Pugh is terrific; the action is coherent; and the character dynamics strike the right balance of earnest sincerity and glib humor.

May 09, 2025
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  • Justin Chang

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From apps to gadgets, 'Second Life' considers how tech is changing having a baby

When Amanda Hess learned her unborn child had a genetic condition, she turned to the internet — but didn't find reassurance. "My relationship with technology became so much more intense," she says.

May 09, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Book Reviews

A filmmaker in Nazi Germany strikes a deal with the devil in 'The Director'

When do compromises turn into full-blown capitulation? Daniel Kehlmann's new novel draws on the true story of German film director G.W. Pabst.

May 08, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Michelle Williams plays Molly, a woman with terminal cancer, in the new series <em>Dying for Sex.</em>

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  • Television

Michelle Williams' biggest takeaway from 'Dying for Sex': Pleasure belongs to you

Williams' FX/Hulu series follows a woman with terminal cancer who decides to pursue her own sexual pleasure. She says the show is about sex, friendship and "being scared and brave at the same time."

May 06, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
"I don't know what comes after this, what tops this over stimulation of characters," Sarah Snook says of her work in <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray.</em>

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  • Theater

1 show, 26 characters: Sarah Snook shares the stage with herself in 'Dorian Gray'

Snook, who played Shiv Roy on Succession, was just nominated for a Tony for playing all the characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway. "I don't know what comes after this," she says.

May 05, 2025
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  • Ann Marie Baldonado
Special collections at the Boston Public Library.<br>

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  • Movie Reviews

A new documentary checks out the many ways libraries are a 'Free For All'

By examining the value of libraries in the distant and recent past, this PBS film makes a compelling case for the importance of the American public library system today.

April 29, 2025
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  • David Bianculli
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How Project 2025 is shaping Trump's second term

Journalist David Graham says the aim of the creators of the conservative action plan Project 2025 is to push the federal government "as far to the right as they can." His new book is The Project.

April 29, 2025
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  • Dave Davies

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  • Book Reviews

This Hollywood memoir is an expertly mixed cocktail of history and family drama

Matthew Specktor grew up the son of a famous Hollywood agent. In The Golden Hour he serves up family saga, cultural criticism, fictionalized biography, history and lament for a vanishing world.

April 28, 2025
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  • John Powers
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