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For Comics, Honing Jokes Has Taken a Back Seat to Marketing. That’s Not Good.

The Soviet Holiday Classic Even Kremlin Skeptics Can’t Stop Watching

In a Year of Anxiety Onscreen, Here’s Who Portrayed It Best.

At Lake Como, Monuments to a Brutal Regime Draw Tourists and Defenders

5 Small but Mighty Games You May Have Missed This Year

Sugar Pie DeSanto, Gritty Soul Singer, Is Dead at 89

Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good

Review: ‘Squid Game’ Hits a Red Light

Beyoncé Halftime Show Gives Netflix Some Pizazz

The Year in Rap: Beneath Kendrick vs. Drake, a Thriving Underground Roils

How ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ (and Its Writer) Went Down in History

On ‘S.N.L.,’ Tom Hanks Inducts Martin Short Into the Five-Timers Club

Best Classical Music Albums of 2024

After This Interview, André 3000 Performed in Our Newsroom

The Black Blackface Performer Who History Tries to Forget

New Year’s Eve in New York: What to Do, See and Eat

Best TV Episodes of 2024

Maxed Out on L.A., He Chased His Hollywood Dream to Albuquerque

Late Night Continues to Drone On About Sightings in the Sky

‘Skibidi Toilet’ Is Likely Coming to Fortnite. What the Heck Is It?

Buy, Donate, Repeat: At 91, Leonard Lauder Has More to Give

On Disc, the Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas Is Prolifically Himself

Jay-Z Will Seek Dismissal of Assault Lawsuit His Lawyer Calls a ‘Sham’

On ‘S.N.L.,’ Luigi Mangione Is Busting Out All Over

Guggenheim Offers the Poetry of Motion: Sign Language Verses

Stephen Colbert Is Surprised by Luigi Mangione’s ‘Minifesto’

‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Score, a Noisy Gem, Will Arrive at Last

Netflix’s Surprising Selection of Free Video Games

S.N.L. Resurrects Church Lady: Isn’t That Special!

For Taylor Swift, It’s the End of the ‘Eras’

1984: The Year Pop Stardom Got Supersized

Jimmy Kimmel Thinks Pete Hegseth Cameo Videos Could Soon Be a Thing

‘You Can Never Look Back’: How ’70s Rockers Rebooted for the ’80s

Late Night Weighs In on Pete Hegseth’s ‘Teetering’ Nomination Prospects

Books, Lost or Imaginary, Come to Life at the Grolier Club

Chris Brown’s Johannesburg Shows Draw Protest

‘Grace,’ Ronald K. Brown’s Celestial Groove, Turns 25 at Ailey

Review: This Is the First Must-See of the Met Opera’s Season

Bringing the Magic of ‘Fanny and Alexander’ to the Opera Stage

We Took Angelina Jolie to the Opera. She Found ‘a Poetry to It All.’

Best TV Shows of 2024

How Can We Save the Best Parts of Our Cities?

The Heirs of a Despised Draft Dodger Want His Wright Brothers Plane Back

For These Two ‘Nutcracker’ Princes, It’s Showtime

At This French Exhibition, Check Your Clothes at the Door

Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches Is Making a Statement on Her Own

Drake Accuses Universal and Spotify of Boosting a Kendrick Lamar Song

Kyle Abraham Is Fully in His Feelings About Now

Without Drama or Banana, Art Auctions Struggle

Chasing the Perfect Photograph in Amish Country