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A grieving widow who makes the ultimate sacrifice for her son. A courtesan with a heart of gold. A driven magazine editor whose empathy reminds a movie star of his humanity. A witty, plucky woman willing...

Director Chad Stahelski has a John Wick-esque hunger for beating a challenge, starting with his days as a stuntman (later doubling for his star, Keanu Reeves) before moving on to martial arts choreography and second-unit directing....

Tori and Lokita call each other brother and sister. Biologically, it’s not true. Emotionally it’s more true than anyone around them could know. Their relationship is the core of “Tori and Lokita,” a tight, heartrending social...

At first, the new season of Showtime’s hit “Yellowjackets” concerned me. Its first couple episodes don’t quite have the buzz of last year, in part because of how the storytelling seems like it’s cleaning up a...

Netflix’s newest spy thriller “The Night Agent” reminded me of ‘90s and ‘00s projects like “In the Line of Fire” and the Bourne movies. That’s a compliment. While the world of high-concept television has largely moved on...

Dynamic action filmmaking does a lot of heavy lifting in the otherwise lumpy Vietnamese beat-em-up “Furies,” a barely related prequel to the 2019 martial arts knockout “Furie.” “Furies” doesn’t follow star “Furie” star Veronica Ngo or...

Immediately following the 2pm matinee performance this Sunday, March 26th, of the Lyric Opera’s eagerly awaited trio of new American operas, “Proximity,” I will be moderating the panel, “Creating Change: Arts and Activism,” a conversation with artists who are using...

Producer Nina Yang Bongiovi, the BAFTA-nominated producer of such acclaimed films as Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station,” Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” and Rebecca Hall’s “Passing,” will be this year’s recipient of Variety’s Creative Impact in Producing...

Documentaries have a helluva war to wage against algorithm-fed attention spans, and the glut of documentaries in the streaming era. It’s an understandable problem only won in the short-term with such heavy-handed filmmaking seen in “Waco: American...

After two long years, “Succession” is finally back. The prestige drama’s previous season promised war between the Roy siblings and their father, Logan Roy, after a fracturing of the company led to their expulsion. Since then,...