Variety - Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences

'The Last of Us'

Ratings, interviews and more
Thunderbolts

Reviews, interviews and more
Media Stocks

Trump's tariffs trigger market plunge

Kelsea Ballerini Variety Power of Women Nashville

Top Story

Kelsea Ballerini Turns Heartbreak Into Country Hits

For Power of Women: Nashville, country-pop star Ballerini talks her new music and the romance that inspired it.

By Thania Garcia

Film

‘Thunderbolts*’ Review

Florence Pugh leads a group of D-list antiheroes in a film that balances self-deprecating comedy with mental health concerns.

By Peter Debruge

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 26: Sam Elliott, recipient of the Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series award for "1883," poses in the press room during the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on February 26, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

‘Landman’ Season 2 Casts Sam Elliott

Sam Elliott is set to appear as a series regular in Season 2 of “Landman” at Paramount+. Season 2 of the Taylor Sheridan series is currently in production in Texas…

By Joe Otterson

Martin Short to Host ‘Match Game’ Revival on ABC

Martin Short is expanding his relationship with Disney, signing on to host a revival of the famed gamer “Match Game.” Produced by FremantleMedia North America…

By Michael Schneider

Film

‘The Smashing Machine’ Trailer: Dwayne Johnson Is Unrecognizable as UFC Legend Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie’s Biopic From A24

Dwayne Johnson undergoes his most dramatic on-screen transformation yet in the first trailer for “The Smashing Machine,” a biopic about two-time UFC heavyweight champ…

By Jack Dunn

Mickey Guyton Variety Power of Women Nashville

Music

Mickey Guyton in Power of Women Nashville

The singer on bucking the odds in country: 'Black women inspire me.'

By Chris Willman

Recommended For You

Latest News

More News

George Clooney and Patti LuPone Get Honest About Broadway Pay

They also talk surviving the Trump era and Elon Musk: 'Isn't he destroying the government?'
Jake Gyllenhaal and Audra McDonald on Playing Broadway Villains

The pair gets honest about stage fright and cell phones disrupting performances.

‘The Accountant 2’

Ben Affleck's autistic action savant makes a winning return in a thriller that improves on the first 'Accountant's' messiness. With scenes that sprawl enjoyably, it's the action film as hangout movie.
‘Sinners’

In Ryan Coogler's lush, enveloping from-dusk-till-dawn vampire epic, Michael B. Jordan plays criminal twins who set up a juke joint in '30s Mississippi. A look at the wages of sin in Black America.
‘On Swift Horses’

A queer drama that explores coming out in the 1950s. Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter are brothers, and Daisy Edgar-Jones a conflicted bride, in a movie that's too often tidy and artificial-feeling.
‘The Shrouds’

David Cronenberg makes a movie about grief (and digital gravestones) that verges on somber self-parody. Vincent Cassel plays a Cronenberg surrogate like the Boris Karloff of Eurotrash death fetishism.

‘Interior Chinatown’

'Interior Chinatown' Struggles to Turn an Allegorical Novel Into a Show
‘Dune: Prophecy’

HBO Prequel Series 'Dune: Prophecy' Capably Tailors the Epic Franchise to Television
‘Landman’

Taylor Sheridan's 'Landman' Gives the West Texas Oil Fields the 'Yellowstone' Treatment
'The Day of the Jackal’

Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch's 'The Day of the Jackal' Is an Exhilarating Assassin Thriller

‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’

Billie Eilish and producer Finneas keep up their winning streak with a surprising and intimate third album.
‘Atavista’

Childish Gambino's latest is a masterpiece, and a kaleidoscopic showcase for his seemingly endless talents.
‘Dark Times’

Vince Staples searches for light on his new album, his most vulnerable project to date.
‘Radical Optimism’

Dua Lipa's new album is a joyous blast of pop savvy.

‘An Enemy of the People’

Sam Gold's production is an actorly face-off between Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, but the script ultimately let's the audience off the hook.
‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’

Patricia Clarkson gives a luminous performance in an otherwise uneven revival of Eugene O'Neill's family drama.
‘Tommy’

Strictly for the boomers.
‘Water for Elephants’

The stage adaptation has escapism, enchantment and heart, all elevated to new, literal heights that blend theater and cirque.

More Reviews

Video

Jodie Foster and Robert Downey Jr. Variety Actors on Actors

Popular on Variety

Jodie Foster & Robert Downey Jr. — Actors on Actors (Full Conversation)

Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound. Then digital angels stepped in, and glory, glory, hallelujah!