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Vox's coverage of HBO Max news, shows, and streaming recommendations.

The White Lotus is reinventing the ugly American tourist

By Alex Abad-Santos

House of the Dragon is coming to HBO. So is the Netflix Chill.

By Peter Kafka

One Good Thing: Conversations with strangers, which I missed so much

By Alissa Wilkinson

Main character syndrome, explained by Carrie Bradshaw

By Alex Abad-Santos

One Good Thing: How fashion became a part of The Nanny’s legacy

By Terry Nguyen

One Good Thing: A campy, colorful martial arts epic to stream after Shang-Chi

By Terry Nguyen

The Sopranos vs. the end of history

By Alissa Wilkinson

What is CNN+ and why would you pay for it?

By Peter Kafka

It never made sense for AT&T to buy WarnerMedia. Now it’s undoing its $100 billion deal.

By Peter Kafka

One Good Thing: Mare of Easttown is my new favorite murder story

By Alex Abad-Santos

Can Mark Wahlberg have it all?

By Alissa Wilkinson

It’s astounding that HBO’s new docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes even exists

By Alissa Wilkinson

WarnerMedia’s CEO says that in 2022 his movies will debut in theaters before they stream

By Peter Kafka

Godzilla vs. Kong is full of holes but fun as hell

By Alissa Wilkinson

One Good Thing: The Lord of the Rings trilogy is the perfect late-quarantine binge

By Rebecca Jennings

5 changes in the Snyder Cut that improved Justice League

By Alex Abad-Santos

The Snyder Cut rights a lot of Justice League’s wrongs

By Alex Abad-Santos

One Good Thing: The brutal beauty of Veneno

By Alex Abad-Santos

It’s a Sin finds the joy the AIDS crisis took away

By Alex Abad-Santos

One Good Thing: The pulpy joys of the Bruce Lee-inspired Warrior

By Karen Turner

Judas and the Black Messiah is already one of 2021’s best movies

By Alissa Wilkinson

9 new movies to watch over the holidays

By Alissa Wilkinson and Alex Abad-Santos

WarnerMedia’s CEO explains why he’s blowing up the movie business

By Peter Kafka

A delicious feast of food movies

By Alissa Wilkinson

It took a pandemic to change the movie business

By Peter Kafka

One Good Thing: Kiki’s Delivery Service is the sweetest, most wistful witch movie ever

By Allegra Frank

How The Vow’s directors went past the “sex cult” headlines to tell NXIVM’s deeper story

By Alissa Wilkinson

What to watch this weekend, on all your favorite streaming platforms

By Alissa Wilkinson

The eerie prescience of HBO’s Watchmen

By Emily St. James

7 daring movie adaptations of literary classics

By Alissa Wilkinson, Constance Grady, and 1 more

A guide to Lovecraft Country’s many pop culture tropes and references

By Aja Romano

The Snyder Cut trailer shows off unseen Justice League footage and Darkseid

By Alex Abad-Santos

In HBO’s Lovecraft Country, cosmic horrors pale next to the reality of racism

By Aja Romano

7 provocative documentaries that show how our political process has evolved

By Alissa Wilkinson

Wild, chaotic, and deeply silly, the animated Harley Quinn series is a terrific watch

By Emily St. James

Pop culture unites us as Americans. Will streaming services change that?

By Lauren Katz

The big advantage HBO Max has over Netflix

By Emily St. James

Spirited Away and other Studio Ghibli films find their first-ever streaming home

By Aja Romano

Friends is leaving Netflix in 2020

By Allegra Frank