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John David Washington as Joshua in The Creator. 20th Century Studios hide caption

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David Byrne of the Talking Heads in Stop Making Sense. A24 hide caption

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A cutthroat power couple Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) and Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) end up in a power struggle in Fair Play. Sergej Radovic/Netflix hide caption

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Gael García Bernal stars in Cassandro. Amazon Prime Studios hide caption

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Pete Davidson and Paul Dano in Dumb Money. Claire Folger/Sony Pictures hide caption

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Ncuti Gatwa in season 4 of Netflix's Sex Education. Samuel Taylor/Netflix hide caption

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Bethesda's new game Starfield features over 1000 planets. Bethesda Softworks hide caption

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In 'Starfield', human destiny is written in the stars

Starfield is one of the biggest and most anticipated video game releases of the year. It's a massive open world game set in humanity's future, when we've settled on star systems throughout the galaxy. There's over 1000 planets to explore, multiple factions to join, spaceships to pilot and quests to go on. But does Starfield live up to the hype?

In 'Starfield', human destiny is written in the stars

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Harrison Ford in The Fugitive. PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy Stock Photo hide caption

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Sinclair Daniel and Ashleigh Murray in The Other Black Girl. Hulu hide caption

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Other people just going about their lives in public are not fodder for your social media. Let's think a little harder about the etiquette of putting pictures and videos of strangers up online. Delmaine Donson/Getty Images hide caption

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Cailee Spaeny stars in Priscilla. A24 Films hide caption

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The Fall movies, TV and music we can't wait for

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Olivia Rodrigo returns with her sophomore album Guts. Nick Walker/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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On 'GUTS', Olivia Rodrigo is more than the sum of her influences

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Beyoncé performs onstage during her Renaissance World Tour at PGE Narodowy in Warsaw, Poland. Kevin Mazur /WireImage for Parkwood / Getty Images hide caption

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Jimmy Fallon hosts the The Tonight Show in March 2023. Todd Owyoung/NBC hide caption

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Nia Vardalos stars as Toula and John Corbett stars as Ian in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. Focus Features hide caption

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