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Watch online: ‘Walk of Shame,’ ‘Double Play,’ ‘Gahan Wilson’

This week, a romantic comedy starring Elizabeth Banks and two documentaries.

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Ann Hornaday

‘Grace of Monaco’ flops while ‘Timbuktu’ emerges at Cannes Film Festival

Nicole Kidman’s troubled portrait of the late Grace Kelly fails to inspire, while “Timbuktu,” a superbly crafted story of the jihadist invasion of Mali, manages to be both urgently of its era and timeless.

Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

‘Million Dollar Arm,’ a winning baseball yarn

The sports movie deserves a spot in the ‘win’ column, thanks to a cast led by Jon Hamm.

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Chris Richards

“Houston Rap Tapes” documents an influential scene’s humble beginnings

Author Lance Scott Walker interviews H-town’s rap royalty

Chris Richards

Chris Richards

How to buy Michael Jackson’s “Xscape” — a hand-drawn news graphic

Chris Richards

Chris Richards

‘Xscape’ isn’t ‘Thriller,’ but it’s easy on the ears

The second posthumous album from Michael Jackson features three versions of “Love Never Felt So Good.”

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

‘Gang Related’: Walking the line between law and la familia

TV REVIEW | Fox drama about an LA detective with secret gang ties shows some depth beneath its machismo.

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

Barbara Walters: Farewell to one of the last great listeners

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK | A TV pioneer (retiring at 84) who endured — even in the age of interruption.

Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever

What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever

Post TV critic Hank Stuever discusses the good, bad and so-bad-it's-good of TV.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

Johnson’s cultural vision mirrored his domestic one

There was an artful brilliance in making sure “beauty” was one of the Great Society’s social benefits.

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott

They come to bury the Corcoran, not to praise it

Legalisms and euphemisms about “collaboration” do nothing to ease the distress of a grand institution’s fall.

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Philip Kennicott

Walter Isaacson Delivers Jefferson Lecture

Walter Isaacson, biographer, journalist and head of the Aspen Institute, delivered the 43rd annual Jefferson Lecture Monday night at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Joyful clarinet, laid-back quartet give fine Fortas recital

Anthony McGill, the new clarinetist of the NY Phil, replaced Marc-Andre Hamelin in a Pacifica Quartet concert.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

Weight discussions become ov-Erraught.

The backlash against critics of Tara Erraught’s weight has started to lose sight of a few basic principles.

Anne Midgette

Anne Midgette

British opera critics focus on size, not voice

Five British male critics pan the performance of a singer in Glyndebourne’s “Rosenkavalier” - because of the way she looks.

Lisa De Moraes

Lisa De Moraes

The TV Column: Alec Baldwin’s puzzling Nat Geo Channel gig

The actor and animal rights supporter will narrate documentaries about, among other things, bear-hunting.

Lisa de Moraes

Lisa de Moraes

Emmy and Tony can’t seem to get enough of Neil Patrick Harris

Actor will host the Emmy Awards for the second time this year after hosting the Tonys for the fourth time

Lisa de Moraes

Lisa de Moraes

Animal Planet nets biggest audience with ‘Mermaids’

TV COLUMN | “New Evidence” “documentary” follows last year’s “Mermaids: The Body Found.”

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

Uncommonly intimate ‘Giselle’ at the Kennedy Center

Its triumph was the grandeur of the second act, when stimulating supernatural forces take over.

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Sarah Kaufman

Michael Jackson Hologram: A Hollow Tribute

Is it creepy to project a known perfectionist as a hologram, in a performance before millions, enshrined in Internet eternity, and over which he had no control? Um, yes.

Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman

Sweeping everyone into the dance

Jessica Lang’s “Scape” carves out space for her dancers, the NSO and the vigor of violinist Josefowicz, too.