Movies
Should You Trust This Mystery Box?
David Robert Mitchell's suburban dinosaur film opens wide this Friday, and as of last weekend not a single critic review had been published.
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Warner Bros. is selling tickets to a movie nobody has graded. As of last weekend, the Rotten Tomatoes page for The End of Oak Street showed a Tomatometer with zero reviews counted and no audience score either. It opens wide…
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Sunrise
BOOK · Tea Obreht's ghost town, told across three timelines
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The End of Oak Street
FILM · Mitchell and Abrams go wide, with no reviews yet
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Lost Weekend
MUSIC · Phoebe Bridgers, six years after Punisher
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D23
EVENT · Disney's fan event opens in Anaheim, through Sunday
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The Oscar Isn't Her Best Work
Twenty-four years on, the sentence has not changed. Halle Berry is still the only Black woman to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and she won it for Monster's Ball. Both halves of that fact have been quietly…
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Games
Which Elder Scrolls Should You Play?
Oblivion Remastered reaches Nintendo Switch 2 this Tuesday with every expansion attached, which makes a twenty-year-old ranking fight suddenly practical.
Books
The Reacher Book Nobody Starts With
Season four arrives this Wednesday on Prime Video, adapting Gone Tomorrow, the thirteenth Jack Reacher novel.
Music
Five Stars, and Nobody's Heard It
Phoebe Bridgers' first solo album in six years arrives this Friday carrying a Metacritic 91, nine days after the first reviews went up.
Movies
Ten Years On, Has Anyone Beaten It?
Yeon Sang-ho's zombie thriller returns to US and Canadian theaters this Friday in a 4K remaster for its tenth anniversary.
Music
Is Dancing Queen Really ABBA's Best?
The single turns fifty exactly this Sunday, and a new Abbey Road remaster is arriving on ten-inch sparkling vinyl to mark it.
Music
Is John Carpenter's Third Act Real?
The Halloween director released a synth-metal concept album last week, tied to a graphic novel of the same name, and the reviews ran from a perfect score to a failing one.
Cross-media
Star Wars Only Needs to Learn One Thing
D23 runs Friday through Sunday in Anaheim, and the Disney Entertainment Showcase takes the Honda Center stage on opening night.
Books
Only One of These Swerves Works
Five big novels land on the same day this Tuesday, and four of the five writers are working outside the thing they are famous for.
Games
The Best Five Dollars You Maybe Shouldn't Spend
CloverPit, the slot-machine roguelite that has passed five million players across PC, Game Pass and mobile, reaches PS5, PS4, Switch and Switch 2 this Thursday at $4.99, with its Unholy Fusion expansion arriving the same day.
Television
Is Tires Actually Good Now?
All 12 episodes of Shane Gillis's auto shop comedy land on Netflix this Thursday, two years after critics wrote off the first season.
Cross-media
Don't Start With The Exorcist
Twenty-two horror releases are scheduled across this month, and the genre's strongest current work is spread across four media rather than one.
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We Asked the Machine What Lanterns Is
Our recommendation engine has never seen a frame of DC's new series, so we measured what its text is actually closest to in a catalog of 176,000 works.
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