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In a dire illustration of America’s inability to serve its citizens during a deadly pandemic, celebrity chef and TV host David Chang went on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? to help an ailing restaurant industry that continues to be ignored by an ineffectual government.

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: For the final Watch This series of the year, we’re again highlighting some of the best movies of 2020 that we didn’t review.

Musa Hadid, the mayor of the Palestinian city of Ramallah (pop. 40,000), is not an imposing guy. Accoutered in a business suit and caterpillar mustache, the middle-aged former engineer spends the early scenes of David Osit’s documentary Mayor in visits and meetings, variously dealing with the sitcom absurdities of…

There’s a warm nostalgia baked into the idea of holiday traditions, but just because it’s a tradition, that doesn’t mean it’s a good thing. With this in mind, superstar drag queens BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon have spent the past few holiday seasons touring the country with riotous live shows (To Jesus, Thanks for…

Near the beginning of the COVID-19 quarantine, a bunch of insufferable motivational types began braying on their social media pages about how “now” was the perfect time to finish that project you always meant to complete, to learn a new language, or to simply just become more “productive” than ever. Of course, these…

Elliot Page, the actor known best for his starring roles in Juno and The Umbrella Academy, has publicly shared that he is transgender. Page made the announcement on Instagram with a screen-capped note to his followers in which he expressed “overwhelming gratitude for the incredible people who have supported me along…

Wonder Woman 1984 isn’t the only thing coming to HBO Max this December. However, when you’re talking about one of the biggest films of the year finally approaching its real, honest-to-goodness premiere date in a matter of weeks, it’s easily the biggest deal of the month. Like most of this odd year’s box office slate,…

Imagine an all-powerful artificial intelligence with full access to the world’s entire digital grid and archives, pitted against a talented and charismatic comedian in a battle to save humanity’s soul and avert a global apocalypse. Combing through a daunting number of possibilities for that premise, the new comedy…

Tom Cruise, despite all attempts to make us believe otherwise, is comprised of flesh and blood like everyone else. At 58 years old, the guy still manages to run, jump, and climb way-too-high for the sake of action movies like the Mission: Impossible series. But, even though he pulses with Hubbard-power, the strength…

There’s a baked-in pressure to be pals with people who have the same name as you, let alone surnames that also share similarities. An understanding of the other, after all, helps when casual fans accidentally conflate the two of you in their minds. Thankfully, Phoebes Bridgers and Waller-Bridge were more than happy to…

The 1964 children’s novel Harriet The Spy inspired an entire generation of future writers and diarists. The protagonist—an Upper East Side 11-year-old who spies on her neighbors when she’s not spending time with her stern, knowledgeable nanny, Ole Golly—stood out from the idyllic young heroes and heroines of…

While awards like the recent Grammys (and the potentially dubious processes behind them) can be contested, the popular vote cannot. The people have spoken (or listened), and Spotify has the cold, hard numbers to back up the real winners of 2020 with its annual “Wrapped” breakdown of the most-streamed artists, songs,…

In Peacock’s new Saved By The Bell reboot, Josie Totah plays Lexi, the quintessential high school queen. She’s always dressed to the nines, has a Kardashian help her campaign for class president (Rob, but still...), and has her own E! reality show. She also just so happens to be transgender.

There are new developments in the case of that strange metal structure discovered in a remote stretch of Utah desert. First up, we know how it disappeared. Second, another one a lot like the original was found in Romania. Lastly, a bunch of theories have been going around regarding where these things came from—and,…

(This review reveals major plot points of X Of Swords.)

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HBO’s Euphoria has it both ways, depicting high school as both a glittering orgy fueled by designer drugs and the reason we spiral into days-long spells of depression underscored by Love Island marathons. It is as fantastic as it is relatable, so there’s ample reason to be stoked for its upcoming Christmas special,…

Hollywood and Broadway have spent decades locked in a vicious cycle: Blockbusters from both have spent more money on lavish spectacle, which has in turn required enormous ticket sales to justify the investment, leading to bigger budgets to attract a larger audience, and on and on it goes. Yet that common ground…

In its fourth season, Big Mouth’s characters break apart so they can come back together smarter, stronger, a little bit grown up, and always a little kinder. In the season premiere, “The New Me,” Nick (Nick Kroll), Andrew (John Mulaney), and Jessi (Jessi Klein) are packed off, still furious, to sleepaway camp, while…

Telling (or retelling) the story of the life of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in a limited series would be a daunting task for even the most seasoned TV producers—the late singer-songwriter and fashion designer, dubbed the Queen Of Tejano, remains a beloved Latinx icon 25 years after her death. Not to mention that Selena’s…

With the fourth season of his Emmy-winning, so-filthy-its-brilliant animated series Big Mouth hitting Netflix this Friday, co-creator and co-star Nick Kroll did the socially distanced late-night rounds with Jimmy Fallon on Monday’s Tonight Show. Showing a clip from the upcoming season’s continuing hormonal, stickily…

Even in this most unusual year, the December TV lineup features several stand-bys, including an annual viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas, a Mariah Carey holiday special, and NBC’s tradition of airing a bewildering musical (this year, it’s Matthew Morrison as The Grinch). But if you’re looking to unwrap something…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, December 1. All times are Eastern. 

It’s been a bit since we heard about Legendary’s plan to turn Troma’s The Toxic Avenger into a more mainstream-friendly, Deadpool-style satirical superhero film, but that doesn’t mean Hollywood has given up on Toxie. In fact, the project even has a big-name star now: Peter Dinklage, who Deadline says will be starring…

NOTE: While The A.V. Club’s coverage of His Dark Materials looked at the first season from both Expert and Newbie perspectives, we’ve moved to one review for the show’s second season. Be forewarned that there may be light spoilers for the books toward the end of the review and the potential for significant spoilers…

Back in May, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker offered the world a rare kindness when he declared that life in 2020 was too depressing to sustain another season of his bleak, bleak, bleak, bleak sci-fi thriller anthology series, but that doesn’t mean we’re all being spared the sting of Brooker’s particular brand of…