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5 New Comedy Specials You Should Definitely Watch (When You Have a Moment)

 Quick, watch them before the year ends! By Jesse David Fox
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Every Below Deck Crew Member, Ranked

 From the bosun who got booted before the boat left the dock to the captain who defined the franchise for a decade, they’re all here. By Brian Moylan
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Every Movie Based on a Wattpad Story, Ranked

 The online-fiction portal has produced movie adaptations that rule the streaming charts even if they go largely ignored by critics. By Josh Bell

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    5 New Movies You Can Finally Rent This MonthTime to invite Nosferatu over for dinner.
    By Brian Tallerico
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    Every Paul Schrader Movie, RankedThe director’s psychological portraits of lost souls desperately seeing salvation take many forms.
    By Vikram Murthi
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    Don’t Go in There: 17 Essential Haunted-House MoviesSteven Soderbergh’s new take on the genre opens this weekend.
    By Gayle Sequeira
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    The 47 Best Movies Over 3 Hours LongGot some extra time? Lose yourself in these cinematic spectacles.
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    The 16 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendYour Innie’s watching Severance; your Outie’s at the movie theater.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    How to Watch All the Early 2025 Oscar ContendersArchitects! Bob Dylans! Gladiators!
    By Brian Tallerico
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    Every Universal Wolf Man Movie, RankedIncluding Leigh Whannell’s latest take on the hairiest of the classic monsters.
    By Louis Peitzman
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    The 15 Best Episodes Across Every Animated Spider-Man SeriesThe web-slinger’s latest cartoon adventure, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, premieres on Disney+ later this month.
    By Daniel Dockery
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    Every Star Wars TV Show, RankedWith so many shows set in the galaxy far, far away, which ones are worth your time? And which ones will pay off in future stories?
    By Rafael Motamayor
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    The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendDeal or No Deal has its own island now, but the Traitors still have the Scottish castle.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    The 27 Best ER Episodes to Stream If You’ve Never WatchedIf you want to binge-watch the granddaddy of all medical dramas, we’re here to help.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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    13 Turbulent Airplane Thrillers to Stream Right NowDid Carry-on make your heart soar? Check out these action flicks set in the not-so-friendly skies.
    By Matthew Jackson
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    Every Aardman Animations Movie, RankedTwenty years after their last feature film, Wallace and Gromit have a new whimsical adventure on Netflix.
    By Vikram Murthi
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    The 14 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendHere’s your PSA that Apple TV+ is free all weekend.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    8 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your 2025 Reading ListSherlock Holmes’s sidekick steps into the spotlight, while the Night Agent gets a new mission.
    By Emily Maskell
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    Ring In 2025 With 12 Essential New Year’s Eve MoviesPlus one New Year’s Day movie.
    By James Grebey
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    Draculas, RankedWe’ve counted all the counts and put together a high-stakes ranking of the best and the worst.
    By Celia Mattison
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    The 13 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendWe’re holding space for A Complete Babyratu.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    Every James Mangold Movie, RankedA respected craftsman who nevertheless puts his own stamp on all of his movies, no matter how different they may seem.
    By Tim Grierson and Will Leitch
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    The 10 Best Versions of ‘Santa Claus Is Coming to Town’One question: Is it joyful?
    By Justin Curto
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    Which Directors Have Matched German Expressionism’s Freak?Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu joins a small canon of work by filmmakers who have attempted to remake classics from interwar Germany.
    By Elle Carroll
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    The 10 Best Versions of ‘White Christmas’Iggy Pop versus Otis Redding.
    By Emma Madden
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    The 10 Best Versions of ‘Jingle Bells’Kris Jenner and Barbra Streisand don’t appear together on many lists, but they do here.
    By Carrie Wittmer
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    A Festive Guide to All the New Holiday Movies on StreamingWe all need something to zone out in front of after a big holiday meal.
    By Brian Tallerico
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    The 10 Best Versions of ‘Winter Wonderland’The idiosyncratic yet charming classic that everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Selena Gomez can agree on.
    By Marc Hirsh
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    The 13 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendIt’s a big weekend for “live-action” talking animals.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    6 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This MonthThanks to a particularly provocative and musical narration, one of the best books of the year is also a top-notch audiobook.
    By Marshall Heyman
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    Every Live-Action Disney Remake, RankedWhich live-action redo is the worst and which is the least bad?
    By Josh Bell
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    A Definitive Ranking of Friends Christmas EpisodesWho can forget the holiday armadillo?
    By Bob Sassone
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    Let’s Rank Every Charcuterie Board on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake CityOur ladies love their emotional-support piles of meats and cheeses.
    By Kinsey Jasnoch
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    The 14 Best Christmas Action Movies, RankedFor when you want fiery explosions with a side of holiday cheer.
    By Keith Phipps
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    8 New Movies to Rent This MonthAwards-season favorites like Anora and A Real Pain are coming to a living room near you.
    By Brian Tallerico
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    22 Great Christmas Movies That Aren’t Christmas MoviesOur favorite movies with a hint of yuletide without all of the usual Christmas trappings and lessons.
    By Bob Sassone
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    Every The Office Christmas Episode, RankedFrom Belsnickel to Benihana.
    By Elizabeth Entenman
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    Every Bob’s Burgers Christmas Episode, RankedThey’re kooky and sometimes a little spooky.
    By Lillian Brown
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    18 Essential Episodes of Gilmore GirlsMother-daughter bonding, love triangles, and talking really fast.
    By Rachel Simon
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    The 14 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendThe live-action Sony Spider-verse takes its final bow, things go wrong at an airport, and Nicole and Paris get an encore.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    The Best Queer Holiday Movies to Make the Yuletide GayA trope-y holiday romance isn’t just for the straights.
    By Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner
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    24 Great Christmas TV Episodes You Can Stream Right NowSpend the holidays with the best friends and family members TV has to offer.
    By Marianne Eloise
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    9 Great Queer Holiday Romance Novels to Cozy Up With This DecemberFeaturing house swaps, fake dates, and conveniently placed mistletoe.
    By Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner
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    A Guide to the Films of Mike Leigh, From Tragic to ComicWe chart Leigh’s films as the director views life itself: on a range from pure tragedy to pure comedy, and everything in between.
    By Chris Feil and Fran Hoepfner
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    19 Christmas Horror Movies You Can Watch Right NowFa-la-la-AHHHHHH!
    By Brooke Knisley
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    The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This WeekendLet’s party like it’s Y2K.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    Every Amy Adams Role, RankedThe “overdue” Oscar label risks reducing a vibrant career to fickle awards metrics.
    By Matthew Jacobs
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    The 50 Best Christmas Movies of All TimeEstablished classics, new favorites, and even some horror.
    By Keith Phipps
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    Unraveling the Netflix Christmas UniverseA quest to find the connections between every NCU movie has destroyed our belief in a stable reality.
    By Laura Bradley
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    2024 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading ListIncluding an ancient epic poem, a magic-realism masterpiece, and a Bob Dylan biography.
    By Emily Maskell
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    Every Ben Stiller Movie Performance, RankedAudiences have come to know and love many Stiller personas: jester, auteur, control freak, buff daddy.
    By Sean Malin
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    The 13 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Thanksgiving HolidayA bountiful feast of entertainment.
    By Savannah Salazar
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    A Definitive Ranking of Friends Thanksgiving EpisodesMissing toes, Brad Pitt, and Chandler in a box.
    By Brian Boone
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