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‘Space Force’

Given the talent and enormous machine behind it, Netflix's "Space Force" with Steve Carell should be better than fine.
‘Legendary’

"Legendary," a new reality competition series about ballroom culture, is a fascinating and messy study in contrasts.
‘Hannah Gadsby: Douglas’

Hannah Gadsby is the Michael Jordan of stand-up in one way — her stated plans to retire shouldn't be taken seriously.
‘Filthy Rich: Jeffrey Epstein’

"Filthy Rich" does well at amplifying voices that tended to get lost in a story about one man who took a fall.

‘Da 5 Bloods’

Spike Lee explores the twin traumas of the war in Vietnam and racial injustice at home in an adventure movie committed to expanding history.
‘The King of Staten Island’

Pete Davidson plays his richest derelict screwup, but Judd Apatow's comedy gives us a terrific character the film is too eager to save.
‘Artemis Fowl’

In this Disney-fied adaptation of the popular YA novel about a criminal mastermind, the character is no longer bad. But the movie sure is.
‘The High Note’

Dakota Johnson plays a personal assistant and Tracee Ellis Ross is the pop diva she works for in a behind-the-music-industry fairy tale.

Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’: Album Review

Lady Gaga has returned to the dancefloor with "Chromatica," her best album since "Born This Way" — and possibly her best yet.
Run the Jewels' 'RTJ4': Album Review

Offering tough, prescient words of truth to a nation in crisis, Run the Jewels delivers their greatest album yet.
The 1975's 'Notes on a Conditional Form': Album Review

If you don't like any particular song you hear on The 1975's fourth album, stick around — something is bound to click.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit's 'Reunions': Album Review

On "Reunions," singer-songwriter Jason Isbell continues his reign as one Americana's master craftsmen.

‘The Prince of Egypt’

With a score by Stephen Schwartz ("Wicked"), this screen-to-stage transfer is so effortful it's enervating.
‘Girl From the North Country’

The moody music and lyrics from the Bob Dylan playbook both define and heighten Conor McPherson's haunting vision of the Depression.
‘The Hot Wing King’

Katori Hall gets belly laughs out of this comedy about an amateur cook trying to create a signature dish while chaos reigns in the kitchen.
‘West Side Story’

Ivo Van Hove dares to fiddle with perfection in this modernized but still respectful re-working of the 1957 masterpiece.