Movies
The Best Spider-Man in 22 Years?
Brand New Day earned a 90 from critics, a 98 from audiences, and constant comparisons to a 22-year-old movie, so we ranked the field and crowned a winner.
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Last Friday, July 31, Spider-Man: Brand New Day swung into theaters carrying the question this magazine asked seven days ago: is Marvel actually back? Here is the answer in numbers. A 90 percent Tomatometer. A 98 percent Popcornmeter. A 169…
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Tue
4
Riley Sager's The Unknown
BOOK · The annual summer thriller, on a haunted Vermont island
Wed
5
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Part 2
TV · Seven episodes, with a feature-length finale on August 26
Fri
7
Fan Expo Boston
EVENT · Runs Friday to Sunday, with a Lord of the Rings cast reunion
Sat
8
Hugo Awards voting closes
BOOK · Last call to rank this year's Best Novel ballot
Cover Story / The Long Read
The Pokémon Studio Picks a Fight
Game Freak is the Pokémon studio. For most players that is the entire résumé, which is exactly why Beast of Reincarnation is the most interesting bet of the gaming summer. It lands Tuesday, August 4 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S…
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Books
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Movies
Can a Billion Dollars Be Wrong?
The first billion-dollar biopic starts streaming on Starz next Monday, carrying a 38 percent critics' score and an A minus from the audiences who made it a phenomenon.
Television
Who Killed Apocalypse?
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Books
The Unadaptable Novel Has Three Weeks Left
Netflix's Spanish-language adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece returns with seven new episodes this Wednesday, and a feature-length Grand Finale follows three weeks later.
Movies
The Bear Should Be Nervous
Matt Johnson's A24 film puts Dominic Sessa in a Provincetown dish pit as 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain for one formative summer.
Music
It All Goes Back to Louis
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Games
The Best Comeback Isn't Cyberpunk
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Music
The Kate Bush Trick Just Worked Again
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Cross-media
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Zendaya and Pattinson's Strangest Movie Yet Hits HBO Max Friday
Is Marvel Actually Back?
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The Best Panel at Comic-Con Is Not the One Everyone Camps For
See It Big or Wait Until You Can
The Week of July 20
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No. 4
Disney Is Now Remaking Movies Your Kids Are Still Watching
Sam Neill Was Never a Movie Star. He Was Something Better.
The Week of July 13
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No. 3
The Dead Are Working Again
GTA 6 Is Skipping PC Because It Can
The Week of July 6
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Hollywood Keeps Betting on Worlds, Not Stories
Supergirl Opens to $38 Million, a Third of Superman's Debut
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Spielberg's Alien Opus Is Eating Toy Story's Lunch
Toy Story 5 Opens to $312M Global
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