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For the first time, the festival is recognizing video games as official selections alongside movies and television. Twelve Minutes, spotlighted as a selection of this year’sTribeca Festival, highlights elements of both. When the man regains consciousness, he realizes he’s 12 minutes in the past. Credit: Raw Fury; Ember Lab; Annapurna Interactive; EA “There’s a spectrum. “What we really want to enhance is the intersection between the mediums,” Baltes says. “Is it a game?...

Filmmakers Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert explain how they got their one-of-a-kind sci-fi-action-comedy off the ground. “It’s absurd and yet still has some logic that holds it together. (They have a singular sensibility.) Everything Everywhere All at Once.Allyson Riggs/A24 That was when we said, whoa, this is exciting; we get to do existential crisisandfight scenes. They’re our two favorite things!” “We have a hard time settling down with an idea,” adds Kwan....

Britain’s beloved romance-columnist-turned-novelist is finally bringing Ghosts to readers across the pond. “You’re better than this, the fan admonished. This kind of transference has become a regular part of the London-based Alderton’s career. ‘Ghosts,’ by Dolly Alderton. “You’re also paying your rent by inviting people in,” she says. “So it’s part of the deal.” The potential for confusion between author and subject is clear, but Alderton is not Nina. Dolly Alderton....

Featuring Adele, Maxo Kream, Snail Mail, and more. We’ve tried to reflect the best of those full-length releases here. After a hearty debate, we selected 10 greats (and a few duds). Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album, ‘Sour’.Geffen Records Read ahead to find out who made the cut. The Year’s Best Albums… 10. Revenge may not fix the hurt, but as dish servedSour, it’s delicious. RCA Records Leah Greenblatt(Full review) 9. What follows instead is a pivotal listen that conveys trauma in an assured yet disarming way....

So many, in fact, that dozens couldn’t even make this list. A boom in female-helmed horror? Yes just,Relic,Amulet, andShe Dies Tomorrow. Credit: Illustration by EW; Josh Ethan Johnson/A24; Searchlight Pictures; Patti Perret/Amazon Studios; Focus Features (2); Disney/Pixar; The deluge of great documentaries? A pretty strong Ben Affleck drama? We see you,The Way Back! Amazon Studios (And we regret you,The Last Thing He Wanted). As a self-appointed one-girl wrecking crew named Cassie,Carey Mulligantakes on misogyny one noxious dude-bro at a time....

And yet it’s impossible not to fall under the spell ofDrive. 3.Flee Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen Could an animated documentary ever win Best Picture? It might be a pipe dream, butFleeis the kind of movie that makes you think it should. The best movies of 2021.Paul Thomas Anderson/MGM; Everett Collection; YANNIS DRAKOULIDIS/NETFLIX; KIRSTY GRIFFIN/NETFLIX; Neon (2) So why doesTom Hollandkeep spending hisSpider-Manbreaks on overbaked, self-serious bummers? ButJason Stathamlooks so rightfully bored in this bone-tired heist thriller that even killingPost Malonecan’t cheer him up....

The highs, lows, and whoas of this year’s ceremony. toa newly abbreviated prize lineup. Here, our vibe seismograph of the wild, woolly, and extremely Will-y 2022 Oscars. ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images The dewy youths ofEuphoria! was somehow subtle or cute. No shade to our belovedTrish, but do better, bookers. Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Regina Hall at the 2022 Oscars.Neilson Barnard/Getty Images (Also,we very much talked about Bruno. But hey!...

4.The Prophetsby Robert Jones Jr. A sad story has never been so impossible to put down. HerCircleisn’t just a passport, it’s a gorgeous time machine. Credit: Book Illustration by EW Doubleday Riverhead Books Profile Riverhead Books Scribner HarperCollins G.P. Putnam’s Sons The cover of ‘Crying in H Mart’.Knopf Knopf Avid Reader Press / Simon + Schuster

This year brought many surprising new comics, as well as long-awaited conclusions to longer epics. Below, listed alphabetically, check out EW’s picks for the 10 best comics of 2021. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr(Boom! Credit: Illustration by EW Studios) Ram V (writer), Filipe Andrade (artist) What is death, anyway? Vault Comics Fantagraphics Simon Hanselmann’s ‘Crisis Zone,’ originally published on Instagram, reflects the heady early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.Fantagraphics...

Are we back to normal? Not yet, and maybe never. (Because aren’t they the real reason for the season?) Marvel Studios; Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features; Nicola Dove/MGM; Warner Bros. Pictures (2) They will laser you in space! thatShang-Chicuts right through with one early kinetic showdown. House of Pain,Dune The phrase “What’s in the box?” Simu Liu and Awkwafina in ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.'.Marvel Studios hasn’t hung this heavy since Brad Pitt got gifted Gwyneth’s head inSeven....

EW critic Leah Greenblatt breaks down the 10 best movies of 2020’s first half. Invisible Man How do you fight a bogeyman whos just…air? Thats the basic premise behind director Leigh Whannells jumpy, stripped down update of the classic H.G. Credit: Focus Features; Richard Foreman/Warner Bros.; Netflix; Mark Rogers/Universal; HBO Shirley Hell hath no fury like a frustrated novelist. The Assistant Frame by frame, hardly anything actually happens inThe Assistant....

Twenty Thousand Hertz Did you know the Netflix “tudum” was almost a bleating goat? Or that the iconic HBO pre-movie theme from your childhood lives on in ways you probably never realized? Perfect cocktail party fodder. Credit: Marvel/SXM; Spotify; Stitcher; Defacto Sound; TCM; C13 Jessica Derschowitz Absolutely Not Comedian Heather McMahan’s podcast is, essentially, a podcast about nothing. Or maybe it’s about everything? Maureen Lee Lenker Hell of Presidents American history as you’ve never heard it before!...

To say we needed happy endings more than ever in 2020 would be a massive understatement. Here are EW’s top 10 romance novels of 2020. Chloe Liese delivered one of the freshest, most heartfelt romances of the year. Credit: Illustration by EW Frankie Zeferino has spent her life building emotional walls, thanks to her autism and her rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Nicole Allen has worked her butt off to build the life she knows she deserves....