Entertainment

July 19, 2026, 5:52 p.m. ETReviewThe halftime show had lots of stars and little purpose, our critic writes.The first World Cup halftime show had a simple message of love and unity.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The...

Dave Kendall, who as the taste-making creator and former host of the long-running MTV music video show “120 Minutes” introduced alternative rock and underground music to a generation of fans in the...

The first words of “The Potluck,” the reflexive, repetitive new musical by César Alvarez, are a complaint. A frustrated composer sits at a table, staring dolefully into a laptop. “I’m supposed to...

‘Blades of the Guardians’Rent or buy on most major platforms.In “Blades of the Guardians,” Dao Ma (Wu Jing) and his young nephew Xiao Qi (Charles Ju) are clever bounty hunters who are...

Alex Faltas, a 6-year-old art lover, prefers to sit on the ground. “As long as I’m sitting against something,” he said.The something in this case was his mother, Danielle Huthart, who had...

They say that you can’t go home again; in this movie, a young filmmaker learns that the hard way.

Dear listeners,I confess that I did not have particularly high hopes for the new Madonna album. With a few exceptions, the material on Madge’s last few releases mostly has been a cornucopia...

Indio Solari, an Argentine rock star whose cryptic lyrics and plangent voice drew a fervent national following to his allusive anthems on his country’s unfulfilled aspirations, died on June 5 at his...

“We were both young when I first saw you” goes the first line of one of Taylor Swift’s most enduring matrimonial tales, a bit of pop-musical Shakespearean fan fiction she wrote when...

Today is July 1, which is sort of the beginning of real summer — the end of the preseason, when school’s out for everyone and, with any luck, we unclench a little....