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It opens with a clock counting down until show time — the dropped stomach, rollercoaster slowly encroaching its apex sensation — and then, a gentle fake out. Taylor Swift is heard before she is seen. “It’s been a long time…” her voice carries. Then the drop hits: an abridged performance of “Miss …

A third of the way through her debut album, “Paint My Bedroom Black,” Gen Z pop singer Holly Humberstone initiates a sort of slow dance, but one set in an anxious daydream. “When you found me I was a train wreck / You gathered my bones in a blanket,” she sings on …

“The Royal Hotel” is a horror movie but don’t expect any jump-cuts, scary masks or serial killers. It’s more like the horror that dawns on a frog when it realizes it is being boiled alive. Filmmaker Kitty Green tells a captivating tale of two young American female backpackers who find themselves tending …

There may be no holier ground in horror than “The Exorcist.” As endlessly as William Friedkin’s 1973 film has been ripped off and resurrected, its power remains unalloyed, its place in movie history consecrated. Why is it that, after we’ve seen seen so many heads twist around, “The Exorcist” can …

Jamie Foxx deploys his movie star charm judiciously and skillfully as a litigator with swagger to spare in “ The Burial,” a very entertaining courtroom drama. Foxx is one of those actors, blessed with an allure and glamour that runs so deep that it’s almost tempting to dismiss a performance like …

The disquieting root of Chloe Domont’s slinky, slick feature debut “Fair Play” lies in the face of Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) as he learns that his fiance Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) has been given the promotion at their Wall Street hedge fund he thought was his. “Congratulations,” he says with a grin that looks …

Rod Wave is a sad dude whose notes app is likely quite a depressing read. Although he’s the source of memes and jokes online, with people poking fun at his music by labeling him as “Adele for thugs,” Wave is a leading pioneer in the Soul-Trap music that he’s been making ever …