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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the first three episodes of “The Testaments,” now streaming on Hulu. Bruce Miller is plunging back into the world of Gilead — and he’s bringing an ...

The person getting the most out of the long “The Devil Wears Prada 2” press tour isn’t even in the movie. It wasn’t the movie’s lead, Meryl Streep, who got to present at the Oscars alongside co-sta...

What may be most extraordinary about Savannah Guthrie’s return to “Today” was just how ordinary it seemed.  This was by design. Guthrie, the long-serving co-host of NBC’s morning news show, has bee...

Not many child stars escape the Magic Kingdom. Jodie Foster, who appeared in “Freaky Friday” early in her long career, is a role model — and an exception. For every Disney kid who makes it big, fro...

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the finale of FX’s “Love Story.” We get a glimpse of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in the final moments of the finale of “Love Sto...

Watching “Giant,” opening March 23 on Broadway after a much-hailed run on London’s West End, one is left with little wonder how its protagonist, Roald Dahl, achieved such success as a writer for ch...

In his low-key way, the German director Christian Petzold has put together a remarkable filmography — and his new movie, “Miroirs No. 3,” is among his oddest and most compelling visions yet. In “Mi...

Jake Shane was one of three influencers that Vanity Fair hired to cover the carpet at its Oscar party, the first such bash thrown under its new editor Mark Guiducci. It cannot have gone how Guiducc...

Two months ago, Julia Roberts held the Golden Globes audience captive as she presented the best musical or comedy trophy. In a couple of minutes of screen time, Roberts accepted the audience’s spon...

Amy Madigan seemed stunned to take the Oscars stage — understandably so. She gave an all-out performance in “Weapons,” but that’s the kind of movie that generally doesn’t win Oscars even in an era ...

“Vladimir” may be one of the most literary TV shows in memory — but don’t take that to mean that it isn’t hot-blooded. Our unnamed protagonist, played by Rachel Weisz, is consumed by the idea that ...

This week, “The View” has been feeling different from how it has in years. Suddenly, it’s relevant.  One might think this is nothing new — after all, in the first Trump presidency, and before that ...

Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s return to “The View” as a guest host has further exposed rifts in the conservative media landscape, as she excoriated fellow Fox News alumna Megyn Kelly of disrespecting Amer...

Social media loves an anniversary, and, earlier today, I kept seeing commemorations of something that happened exactly 12 years ago: The “Oscar selfie” featuring host Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lawr...

Like many TV watchers, I first took notice of Eric Dane on “Grey’s Anatomy.” His Dr. Mark Sloan — “McSteamy,” in the show’s parlance — was a gleeful agent of chaos, remixing the show’s existing cou...

National news events have a way of minting public figures out of people who had not spent their lives expecting the spotlight. This can cut in either direction: For better, as when a person toiling...

Director Grant Gee shifted his focus from rockers to a jazzman, and Berlin took notice. Gee is noted as a documentarian covering music acts; his 1998 doc “Meeting People Is Easy,” for which he foll...

Since last fall, an errant comment Alexander Skarsgård made has fueled wild speculation about his sexuality — and, speaking to Variety in a new cover story, the actor is clearing it up. At last yea...

In the new film “Sirāt,” opening Feb. 6, a father is on a quest. Luis’ daughter has gone missing at a rave in Morocco; Luis (Sergi López), accompanied by his young son, Esteban (Bruno Núñez Arjona)...