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‘Squid Game’ Season 3 Delivers One Last Devastating Blow and a Shocking Path Forward: TV Review
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the series finale of “Squid Game,” now streaming on Netflix. “Squid Game,” Netflix’s…
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Lorde Launches a Revealing, Rebellious, Rejuvenating New Chapter With ‘Virgin’: Album Review
Even though she’s dropped an album every four years, Lorde’s career has felt so start-stop that it’s surprising to realize we’ve had a…
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‘Rent Free’ Review: Couch Surfing Becomes an Endurance Test in Droll Cringe Comedy
Erase the word “Austin” from their content, and most people would have a hard time detecting any connective thread between Richard…
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‘The Bear’ Season 4 Is Better, but Not by Enough: TV Review
SPOILER ALERT: The following review evaluates Season 4 of “The Bear.” While major plot developments have been withheld to preserve the…
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‘Ironheart’ Takes the MCU to Chicago for an Overcrowded Coming-of-Age Story: TV Review
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is not often associated with a sense of place, unless the place in question is a green-screened soundstage…
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Acrophyte Hospitality Trust mulls suspending or reducing distributions under strategy review
The manager says it faces challenges in funding the capital expenditures that many of its properties require The managers of Acrophyte…
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‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Review: High-Concept Toon Is as Catchy as the Korean Music Phenom That Inspired It
In K-pop, the fans come first, or so catchy South Korean music acts are constantly telling the legions of dedicated followers who have…
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Rhiannon Giddens’ All-Star Roots Revue at the Bowl Has Steve Martin, Our Native Daughters and Others Covering the Full Banjo Spectrum, From Black Consciousness to Comedy: Concert Review
There was a good share of on-stage comedy happening at Rhiannon Giddens‘ all-star roots music night Wednesday at the Hollywood Bowl. That…
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In ‘American Heart,’ Benson Boone’s Music Still Isn’t Half as Much Fun as His Image: Album Review
We live in a world of pop “girlies” right now, and while that’s a triumphant thing, for them and for us, we’ve still got to maintain some…
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‘Inside’ Review: Guy Pearce and Cosmo Jarvis Are Inmates in an Offbeat Aussie Prison Drama
Prison dramas usually fall into three categories: They’re either tales of violent intrigue, redemption or a rocky road through one to the…
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'Real Women Have Curves' on Broadway: A Review
As someone with several curvy dancer friends whose dreams of performing on big stages were crushed by teachers and casting directors…
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‘K-Pops!’ Review: A Joyous, Music-Filled Film on Fatherhood That Lovingly Embraces Both Korean and Black Cultures
Bustling at a colorful intersection of music, family, and identity, Anderson .Paak’s filmmaking debut “K-Pops!” is an instantly likable…
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‘Brand New Landscape’ Review: An Architect Has No Design for Family Life in a Quietly Affecting Japanese Drama
Time heals no wounds in “Brand New Landscape,” an outwardly gentle but subtly cutting domestic drama that begins as a snapshot of a family…
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Key points at a glance from the Spending Review
Paul Seddon Political reporter Chancellor Rachel Reeves hasunveiled the contentsof the UK's first multi-year spending review since 2021.…
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‘Re-Creation’ Review: Jim Sheridan and David Merriman Hold a Mirror to Our Humanity in an Elegant ’12 Angry Men’ Variation
Whether it’s because notions like truth and fairness demand more attention than ever in a chaotically unjust world, or because some…
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Spending Review: People on £10,000 to £96,000 tell us what they want the UK to spend money on
Lucy Hooker, Kris Bramwell & Shakira Abdi BBC News This week the government will set out how much it is going to spend over the next four…
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Spending Review: Shaping Scotland's priorities for years to come
Douglas Fraser Business and Economy Editor, Scotland Increased spending for Scotland on defence, computing and the development of…
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‘In Cold Light’ Review: A Tiresome Neo-Noir That Does No Favors for Maika Monroe or Troy Kotsur
Movies rarely come more generic than French-Canadian filmmaker Maxime Giroux’s “In Cold Light,” an exhaustingly paced action-thriller…
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LumiBloom CBD Lifestyle Products Review
When it comes to self-care, I’ll take all the help I can get. However, CBD lifestyle products are not something I’ve tried — until now!…
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‘Queens of the Dead’ Review: A Zombie Farce That Wears Its Bedazzled Heart on Its Sleeve
Few films can coast on good intentions alone, but low-budget zombie romp “Queens of the Dead” comes close. Directed by Tina Romero, the…
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Review: DreamWorks Swoops Into the Remake Game With Respectful Cover From Co-Director of 2010 Toon
Fifteen years doesn’t seem very long to wait before doing a nearly scene-for-scene remake of an animated blockbuster. In the case of…
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‘Meteors’ Review: A Town Without Pity Takes its Toll on Friendship in a Listless French Melodrama
There is a term for the sparsely populated swath of France that extends southwest from the borders of Belgium and Luxembourg to the…
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Yvette Cooper yet to agree deal three days before spending review
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is the last minister yet to agree a funding deal with the Treasury ahead of Wednesday's Spending Review, BBC…