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J Balvin says a language barrier won’t stop Bad Bunny from dominating the Super Bowl halftime show — pointing to his own love of hip-hop as proof!
The Latin superstar clearly thinks the language concerns are way overblown … telling TMZ Sports how his own musical upbringing proves great music doesn’t need translation.
“I learned and grew up listening to hip-hop,” he said. “I didn’t know what they were saying. I would just vibe with it.”
We caught up with Balvin outside the Fanatics luncheon on Friday in San Francisco … when we asked for his reaction to all the chatter surrounding his pal Benito’s SBLV headlining gig.
Unsurprisingly, he’s pumped for the performance!
Balvin says fans stressing about understanding every lyric are missing the bigger picture … because energy is what really drives music.
“They just gotta jump on the flavor, that’s all they gotta do,” he said. “That’s followers.”
Bad Bunny himself echoed that message this week … insisting music can connect people without language barriers, saying he wants viewers to simply feel the energy of the show.
But which song is J Balvin most looking forward to hearing?
“All of them!” he said. “That’s my man.”
Balvin also shouted out Odell Beckham Jr. as the most fashionable NFL player … saying “he’s a very cool guy.”
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So, when we caught up with OBJ later on, we had to see what he thought of the high praise.
“It’s a huge compliment coming from him!” Beckham Jr. told us.
The wide receiver added he thinks Balvin is the best-dressed musical artist.
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Democratic Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett’s failed Senate campaign expenses included $200K on text messages to potential voters and tens of thousands of dollars on consultants — while her opponent James Talarico outspent her like crazy on advertising … TMZ has learned.
Per campaign records, the Congresswoman listed $8,577,757.47 in receipts … with $3,682,885.41 in individual contributions … from December 2025 to February 2025.
During the same time period, Jasmine’s campaign spent $5,092,872.38 on expenses … and $17,297.87 on contribution refunds.
According to records, Jasmine spent more than $275K to a company called True Blue Digital for advertising … over $200K on text message services, $40K on consultants, $20K on website services, $6,000 on media production, $10,000 on printing, $1,200 on catering, $1,800 on security services, and $528 at a fancy Texas restaurant, Winsome Prime.
The Texas politician — who lost last week’s primary to Talarico — ended the campaign with $3,484,885.09 in cash on hand.
In comparison, James pulled in over $20,683,458.89 in receipts and spent $15,848,257.94 on expenses. Talarico’s expenses included $1 million on digital fundraising.
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It’s no surprise to see Jennifer Garner wearing a look we love. What was unexpected, though, was her outfit’s striking resemblance to another fashion icon we adore, Kylie Kelce. Garner was spotted on the set of the forthcoming movie “One Attempt Remaining,” in a chambray button-down, which she layered over a white top and paired with white pants and a canvas tote.
Meanwhile, Kylie Kelce recently wore a nearly identical, light denim shirt on her Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce podcast. Both stars styled their tops effortlessly, and while we don’t know the exact brand either wore, we did uncover a nearly identical match on Amazon for just $38. If that’s not a sign to scoop up this spring-perfect shirt look, we don’t know what is!
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Made from a blend of cotton and polyester, this Amazon find has a chest pocket, just like Kelce’s pick, and the same sky-blue chambray hue as Garner’s top. It would look great buttoned closed or draped open, and over white jeans or black leggings like both A-listers. Either way, it’s a casual-yet-sophisticated layer that makes for the perfect, go-with-everything spring outfit.
It’s also an Amazon favorite, with an average 4.4-star rating, including from loads of five-star fans. One shopper raved over how easy it is to style, and vouched it holds up well to multiple wears and laundry cycles: “It looks adorable layered over a wide ribbed tank and pairs well with leggings or trousers. I appreciate the cotton content. It washes up fairly soft, and the thickness is just right,” they wrote.
Other shoppers praised its comfortable, true-to-size fit. “This denim shirt has that perfect casual look I was going for. It’s soft, not stiff like some jean shirts, and the fit is just right, not too tight, not too baggy. I’ve worn it with leggings, over dresses, and even tied it around my waist. It’s become a staple in my closet because it just works with everything,” another customer said.
Easy to style and a dream to wear, this look is timeless, versatile and celeb-approved. Spring, here we come!
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Former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kandi Burruss recently opened up about a music dispute that ultimately worked in her favor. Speaking on the “Question Everything” podcast, the former girl group member detailed how she and bandmate Tiny Harris turned lemons into lemonade.
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Remember ‘No Pigeons’ by Sporty Thievz? The response track to TLC’s “No Scrubs”
Kandi says she and Tiny ate up all the publishing from that hit as well because they didn’t ask or try to have it cleared
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In addition to being a notable reality TV personality, Burruss is also a talented songwriter, most known for her work with Ed Sheeran, Destiny’s Child, NSYNC, and TLC.
Burruss’s work on TLC’s “No Scrubs” earned the mother of three a No. 1 record and worldwide fame. But the notoriety also came with some unexpected challenges when the song later became the center of a legal battle over its melody.
Burruss revealed during the podcast interview that other musicians often want to sample songs she’s written for different artists. However, they must go through the proper channels to secure the rights.
That didn’t happen with the rap group Sporty Thievz, who used the melody and concept from “No Scrubs” to make their parody single, “No Pigeons.”
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“I had a situation years ago,” Burruss said on the show, adding that the group didn’t ask for permission and she and her co-writer, Tiny Harris, “got all the money from it.”
Burruss said Sporty Thievz failed to “clear” the track before releasing it, and because it was essentially a carbon copy of the original, she and Harris were able to take legal action.
Burruss isn’t holding any grudges, though. She explained how “thankful” she was for Sporty Thievz’s work, adding that it “gave me another No. 1 and another check.”
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This isn’t the first time Burruss has opened up about her work being sampled by other artists.
During an interview with NFL alum Shannon Sharpe, Burruss said it’s a “blessing” whenever other performers want to use her work.
She then discussed her business dealings with popular singer Ed Sheeran, who used a sample of “No Scrubs” in his global track “Shape of You.”
According to Burruss, before Sheeran released the single, his team connected with her to work out the percentages for him using the music.
After going back and forth, Burruss said she didn’t hear anything else from Sheeran’s team, so she believed they were moving in another direction.
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“Then the song came out, it was on the radio, and people were doing their ‘No Scrubs’ and ‘Shape of You’ mashups online,” she said. “And we were like, ‘Oh, OK. Well, then we need to have a conversation about what the splits are about to be.’”
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According to a previous report from The Blast, during her appearance on the “Question Everything” podcast, Burruss discussed her decision to continue supporting “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” after leaving the iconic reality series.
“I think it’s important to continue to support the franchise even though I’m not there because I was there for 14 seasons, and I want them to be successful,” she said. “I want ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ to continue on another 15 years.”
Indeed, Burruss spent 14 years on the Bravo series, first joining the cast in 2009 before exiting in 2024. During her run on the network, Burruss starred in numerous spinoffs, including “Kandi’s Ski Trip,” “Kandi’s Wedding,” “Xscape and SWV: The Queens of R&B,” and “Kandi & The Gang.”
While announcing her exit, Burruss explained why she was leaving the show in her rearview after 14 years.
“It’s been 14 seasons, and they allowed us to sit around for a little too long, but during that time I had started working on a lot of other things, and I got some nice big projects coming soon, so I’m super excited about those things,” Burruss said at the time of her departure.
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Even more change came after leaving “RHOA.” Following her appearance at BravoCon 2025, Burruss told the Bravoverse that she had filed for divorce from her husband of 11 years, Todd Tucker.
“I’m stepping into a new chapter pouring into my work, my family, and my own growth. I’m grateful to everyone who supported us throughout the years, and I ask for privacy, grace, and understanding as we navigate this transition with our family,” she said.
Tom Ellis has made the move from Tell Me Lies to the FBI spinoff CIA — and he already has ideas about which of his costars should join him.
“They’re all so good,” Ellis, 47, exclusively told Us Weekly about his former Tell Me Lies scene partners. “But I think because of this season and the way this season is going, I’m really excited about the work that Spencer [House] is doing as Wrigley.”
Ellis continued: “He’s so brilliant. I’d welcome him onto any set that I was working on because he’s got so much to give.”
The actor credited his wife Meaghan Oppenheimer‘s hit Hulu series for preparing him for CIA.
“Tell Me Lies was practice for CIA. Tell Me Lies is basically what Colin does all the time,” Ellis quipped to Us. “It’s really weird going from a character on Lucifer who prided himself on never lying to now playing someone who basically exclusively deals in lying. Because of what Colin does and because of how long he’s done it for, his sense of what reality is is probably a bit warped by now.”
Ellis was thrilled by the challenging character work, adding, “He chooses and hand picks what he tells people about himself. Sometimes you realize that that changes and you think about how reliable is this? How reliable is this source? But it’s always about self preservation. For the CIA, they can’t let anyone into their inner circle and so that’s why it becomes a bit of a stumbling block for [Nick Gehlfuss’] Bill.”

FBI debuted on CBS in 2019 and follows the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York City. The network followed that up with FBI: Most Wanted, which aired from 2020 to 2025, about the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Fugitive Task Force. There was also the FBI: International spinoff about the International Fly Team that ran for four seasons before concluding in 2025.
In April 2025, CBS gave CIA a straight-to-series order starring Ellis and Gehlfuss. According to the official synopsis, CIA centers on “two unlikely partners — a fast-talking, rule-breaking loose cannon CIA case officer and a by-the-book, seasoned and smart FBI agent who believes in the rule of law.”
“If these two people are going to get paired up to work together, there has to be an element of trust. How can you trust someone who isn’t always telling you the truth and is quite often bare faced lying to you?” Ellis teased. “But as the season goes on, Bill starts to realize why Colin is this way and the type of work that he does and why it’s important that he doesn’t let people in.”
Ellis went on to compare CIA to its predecessor FBI.
“The FBI deals in crimes that have already happened predominantly and the CIA try to stop the crime from happening in the first place,” Ellis exclusively told Us. “FBI is a very public present arm of the law enforcement. They’re the poster boy of U.S. law enforcement. And the CIA is very much in the shadows — and doesn’t want to be on any poster. It doesn’t want people to see who they are and they operate in a very sort of voyeuristic manner.”
CIA airs on CBS Mondays at 10 p.m. ET.
Pop star Britney Spears doesn’t seem to want to reunite with her father, Jamie Spears, who ran her conservatorship for 12 years. In her memoir, “The Woman In Me,” the “Toxic” singer shared an exhaustive list of reasons as to why she never got along with her father. However, following her DUI arrest, it seems that her family members are encouraging her to make amends.
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On March 9, approximately a week after her DUI arrest, a Los Angeles associate who has regular contact with her friend group and her family, exclusively told Page Six that she is “antagonized” and “on edge” over the thought of inviting her father back into her life.
The insider revealed that Jamie “doesn’t want to remain disconnected from his daughter” any longer and wants “the chance to be able to talk with her and find some middle ground.” However, the Princess of Pop is apparently not ready to do so, even though her sons have had regular contact with their grandfather.
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Britney shared two sons, Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19, with her ex-husband, Kevin Federline. The source said that her two boys are optimistic that Britney and her father will be able to make amends so that they can be a “united family.”
“Even the boys have gotten back into their grandad’s life after some tough times,” the insider revealed. “They would welcome a united family despite all the years of drama.”
However, the insider went on to say that Britney “is antagonized by the subject” of her father and would prefer not to discuss him at all.
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“There is long-term hatred and loathing that may never be overcome,” the source shared. “Jamie puts Britney on edge, and her moods get deeply dark around the prospect of him being in her life … despite efforts by people in her life for some reunion.” They went on to say:
“That has increased in recent months with the boys being around more. There is a direct correlation between that stress and Britney turning to alcohol to numb that pain. Sadly, she will always view her father as a villain because of how she felt trapped and controlled within the conservatorship.”
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“She hated having to adhere to regular doctor visits, therapy sessions, and medication plans. That is understandable for someone who is dealing with a bipolar condition,” the source added. “Obviously, a father overseeing the principle of that process is a tricky situation — not least emotionally — but her condition needed some medical supervision.”
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Another source connected to the family told the publication that Jamie is “deeply hurt at how his daughter refuses to consider ever speaking to him again,” especially considering that he has “suffered with health severely in recent years.”
“He held out hope when his life seemed in a perilous state that his daughter would visit him,” the source said, acknowledging, “but that never happened.”
Although Jamie has often been villainized by the media, a family friend told the publication that “Jamie only ever wanted to keep his daughter alive, and also financially solvent, in that order.”
“Jamie has consistently told those around him that he remains proud that he did ’save Britney’s life,’ no matter how the public may feel,” the family friend added.

Even though she was freed from her court-ordered conservatorship in November 2021, the source said that Britney “seems terrified” that Jamie will “somehow regain the conservatorship, which obviously is a very challenging legal task and something Jamie doesn’t have the energy to consider.”
As The Blast previously reported, Britney compared her father to a “cult leader” in her memoir, “The Woman In Me.” In addition to the “exhausting run” of shows during her Las Vegas Residency, Britney alleged that her father failed to give her ample time to rest and strictly controlled her diet. She claimed that he only allowed her to eat chicken and vegetables, and even called her “fat” on multiple occasions.
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“Two years is a long time to not be able to eat what you want, especially when it’s your body and your work and your soul making the money that everyone’s living off of,” she wrote. “Two years of asking for French fries and being told no. I found it so degrading.”
Gwen Stefani says getting pregnant with son Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale at age 43 helped inspire her to become a Christian.
“I really wanted to have another baby. I really did,” Stefani, 56, explained in an interview published on the “Hallow: Prayers and Meditation” YouTube channel on Thursday, March 5. “I couldn’t and I was old and [I] started talking about all these things … it was waking me up.”
Stefani tied her emerging Christian faith to welcoming her son Apollo in February 2014, just after she’d turned 44. (Stefani and ex-husband Gavin Rossdale share three sons: Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, born in May 2006, Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale, born in August 2008, and Apollo. Stefani split from Rossdale, 60, in 2015 and married her Voice costar Blake Shelton in 2021.)
The three-time Grammy Award winner reflected on how her spiritual revelation occurred shortly after she started working with a friend who’d gone from being “an atheist Jew” to a believer.
“I started working with this guy, and he was really like an atheist Jew that converted after being an atheist growing up in Israel,” she noted. “He was studying the Torah, and he had this big epiphany [and] awakening and he starts talking to me about the Torah.”
Stefani recalled that, around the same time, her eldest son, Kingston, said he “really wanted [her] to have a baby.”
“[I told him], ‘I’m sorry. Mommy is too old to have a baby.’ … [Kingston] was 8. He was like, ‘Please God, let my mommy have a baby,’” Stefani remembered. “I just remember thinking, look at my little boy. He’s praying for me!”
Kingston started praying for his parents to have another child “every night” even though neither of them ever asked him to do it, according to Stefani.
“I never taught him that, really,” she admitted. “I think it was four weeks later and I was pregnant with Apollo, who I had at 44 years old, naturally, totally a full-on gift. That was the first miracle.”

Gwen Stefani in December 2025. Getty Images/ANGELA WEISS / AFP
Stefani acknowledged that she went into that period of self-discovery feeling “ignorant” before conceding that she still “doesn’t know enough” about Christianity.
“It’s almost scary because the more you know, the more fear you get,” she said. “You realize, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m running out of time and I need to get this together. I’ve got to be a real Christian! I’m not gonna make it.’”
Asked how her faith has changed in the past years, Stefani answered, “I remember it was 2020. It was during COVID [and I was] searching online. Thank god for online. It’s horrible out there but there’s so much good information too.”
She added, “I found Pastor Mike Schmitz … That sermon really changed [me]. I remember just bawling and being on fire. Like, I had found this truth.”
Since that time, Stefani has partnered with the Catholic app Hallow, which describes itself as “a Christian prayer app that offers audio-guided meditation sessions to help us grow in our faith & spiritual lives and find peace in God.” Their partnership for a Christmas advent campaign proved to be controversial in December 2025 when Hallow’s anti-abortion messaging resurfaced.
“It is important this holiday season to spend time in prayer. That is what Christmas is all about: letting God into our hearts and letting Jesus bring us his peace,” Stefani encouraged her followers at the time. “Download Hallow and join me and millions of others in praying every day this advent and Christmas season on Hallow.”
Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause was among those to call out Stefani’s partnership with Hallow, even invoking No Doubt’s 1995 song ‘Don’t Speak.’
“Gwen-DON’T SPEAK,” Stause, 44, demanded via Instagram in December 2025. “Please take your own advice on this one🫠.”
The reality star doubled down by later condemning Stefani for “taking money to promote an app that encourages anti-abortion, even in cases of [rape] and incest.”
“Please stop making young girls feel guilty to not have a choice,” Stause wrote.
She went on, “‘Don’t speak’ is a play on words. She can say what she wants, and I can oppose it. If your child got pregnant by a pedophile, would you want Gwen Stephanie [sic] making her feel guilty to keep [the baby]? I wouldn’t.”
Stefani has not responded to Stause’s criticism of her Hallow promotion.
Lewis Hamilton and Kim Kardashian’s connection is growing stronger.
“They are going strong and really happy. Lewis is head over heels and those closest to him believe he has finally met his match,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. “He has waited over a decade for his dream girl and is crazy about her.”
The insider adds that Hamilton, 41, “has been FaceTiming” Kardashian, 45, “regularly from the paddock.” While they can’t be together in person as much as they like, Kardashian has been “incredibly supportive” of Hamilton’s “demanding F1 schedule.”
“They are both very committed to making things work no matter how long the distance is or how busy they are,” the source shares. “Because their relationship started with a friendship first, those closest to them believe this could be endgame for them both.”
Kardashian and Hamilton have known each other for quite some time, as the pair have been spotted together at multiple events and functions since 2014. However, things seemingly shifted earlier this year after they were seen spending time at Estelle Manor in Oxfordshire, England.
Amid the rumors of a potential romance, Kardashian opened up about her struggles to date as a single mom. (The Kardashians star shares four children, North, 12, Saint, 10, Chicago, 8, and Psalm, 6, with ex-husband Kanye West.)
“I just feel like my kids need me. It’s really hard when I have to put them to bed every night. I get them up. I take them to school. I get them ready. They sleep in my bed,” Kim explained in a January episode of sister Khloé Kardashian’s “Khloé in Wonderland” podcast. “I haven’t had time [to date] — and I’m OK with that. I thought, ‘You know what? I’m going to be studying. I won’t have time. When I’m done, I’ll open myself up.’ I opened myself up. But it’s just, I haven’t found anyone. And that’s OK.”
Shortly after her comments about putting dating on pause, Kim and Hamilton were seen together at a hotel in Paris and at Super Bowl LX. At the time, an insider told Us that the twosome had gone on “a few dates” but things were just “casual.”
Earlier this month, Hamilton and Kim took a getaway to Arizona. An additional source exclusively told Us that the duo had a “break in their schedules” and wanted to “spend more time together and really get to know each other.”
“It’s going well, and Kim has been genuinely enjoying her time with Lewis,” the insider explained, noting that they were still “taking it slow”.
The source added that while Hamilton has not met Kim’s children yet, the Skims founder is “open” to the idea.
“Lewis is such a great guy and has really been courting her and treating her right. He’s been making all the plans and making sure she is taken care of,” the insider continued. “Everyone around her thinks it’s really sweet and what she deserves. Kim has had such a relaxed aura recently in all aspects of her life. Her mindset has totally changed. She’s not forcing anything, just letting it unfold naturally.”
Scottish star Billy Connolly was in his mid 50s when he played Il Duce — the legendary Irish hitman — in the 1999 action/thriller film “The Boondock Saints.” Connolly shared the big screen with Norman Reedus, Willem Dafoe and Sean Patrick…
War movies age well when the tension still feels physical and the moral questions still feel sharp decades later. You can watch them today and the fear still reads on faces, the decisions still feel impossible, and the aftermath still follows you out of the room. The films I’ve reviewed below are the ones people don’t bring up enough anymore, usually because they aren’t loud greatest hits titles yet they play like they were made yesterday.
Every entry here earns its place through specifics: a courtroom that turns your stomach, a trench that feels like a trap, a tank crew making the wrong turn into hell, a friendship you already know is going to hurt, a mission that turns into survival-by-minute. These aren’t background watches. They pull you in and keep you there.
Breaker Morant throws you into a war story where the bullets barely matter compared to the words. Harry “Breaker” Morant (Edward Woodward) sits in a courtroom facing execution, and the movie makes you feel the pressure of men being judged by rules that shift depending on who needs protecting. Major J.F. Thomas (Jack Thompson) walks in as the defense and you can see him realizing, piece by piece, what kind of trial this really is. It’s tense in the way great legal thrillers are tense. Every objection, every witness, every line of testimony tightening the rope.
The hook stays emotional. Morant doesn’t play like a clean martyr. He plays like a soldier who did brutal things in a brutal situation and then got left holding the bag. You keep watching to see whether truth matters at all when politics has already decided the ending. The film makes you stick to the screen to this day. It makes you stare at the ugliest part of war: the paperwork and the scapegoats after the blood is spilled.
Cross of Iron drops you on the Eastern Front and refuses to romanticize a single inch of it. Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) leads exhausted infantrymen who look like they’ve been living in mud for years, and the film makes you feel how survival becomes the only belief system left. Then Stransky (Maximilian Schell) shows up with rank, ambition, and obsession with medals, and the conflict turns personal fast. It becomes about soldiers who want to live versus a man who wants a story told about him.
The movie captures contempt inside the same uniform. Steiner isn’t trying to be noble; he’s trying to get his men through another day with their bodies intact. You end up caring about tiny battlefield choices, where someone crouches, when someone moves, who covers who, because the movie makes those choices feel like the difference between breathing and not breathing. It’s nasty, direct, and still shocking in how honest it is.
The Beast follows Daskal (Jason Patric) as part of a Soviet tank crew that gets lost in Afghanistan. The movie turns that mistake into a slow, grinding panic. The crew is filmed trying to navigate terrain that wants to eat them while people who know the land start hunting them. The movie makes war feel like a wrong turn you can’t undo. Taj (Steven Bauer) gives the story its moral heat and the local fighter watching these men with rage that comes from lived harm.
The tank becomes a moving prison. You feel the claustrophobia, the paranoia inside the crew, the way fear makes men crueler to each other. The film earns its power by keeping the violence close: a village encounter that stains the crew, a pursuit that never feels far away, a code of revenge that feels inevitable once the first wrong act happens. It’s one of those war movies that makes you sit there afterward thinking about how fast human beings justify what they’re doing.
Gallipoli wins your heart before it breaks it. Archy Hamilton (Mark Lee) and Frank Dunne (Mel Gibson) start as young men with speed in their legs and confidence in their voices, and the early sections make their friendship feel simple and real — rivalry, jokes, pride, that belief that life is wide open. Then the war starts shaping every decision, and you can feel the boys becoming soldiers while still trying to stay boys.
The second half sits in your chest because the film makes the waiting unbearable. Orders move slowly. Messages get lost. The distance between command and the men who pay the price becomes obvious in every scene. You end up clinging to the friendship because it’s the one thing that still feels human in a place designed to grind humanity down.
Hamburger Hill feels like being dropped into a fight that refuses to end. Sgt. Frantz (Dylan McDermott) leads men up Hill 937 again and again, and the movie makes repetition feel like torture. There’s mud, rain, screaming, bodies falling, then the order to climb again. The soldiers are trying to get through the next push without losing someone they just shared a cigarette with.
The film stays strong because it keeps the focus on the squad’s emotional weather. Fear shows up differently in each man: anger, jokes, silence, reckless bravado, numbness. The racial tension and class tension aren’t tossed in for flavor; they live in the way men speak to each other under stress, then fight beside each other anyway because the hill doesn’t care who you are. It leaves you with exhaustion, the same kind you see on their faces.
The Train is older than the rest of this list and still feels viciously watchable because it turns a mission into stubborn, sweaty problem-solving. Paul Labiche (Burt Lancaster) is resistance, rail man, and pragmatist, and you feel how hard he has to work to keep people alive while delaying a train loaded with stolen art. Colonel von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) plays another brutal type — the kind of man who treats human lives as acceptable losses for his cause.
The suspense in The Train comes from practical obstacles: switches, engines, schedules, sabotage that needs timing, the risk of a single mistake turning into a firing squad. You watch Labiche make choices that cost people he cares about, and the film never lets you pretend those costs are clean. It’s the kind of war movie that makes you respect competence while also forcing you to feel what competence costs in war.
A Bridge Too Far earns its place on this list purely because of its scale and heartbreak. Not to mention that it feels extremely personal. The film follows Maj. Gen. Roy Urquhart (Sean Connery) who lands with his men and immediately feels the plan’s cracks widening — distance, radio failure, time slipping. Then there’s the main man, Lt. Col. John Frost (Anthony Hopkins) who holds the Arnhem bridge with a kind of calm resolve that makes every scene with him tighten your throat. The movie makes you understand the goal, then makes you watch how many things have to go right for that goal to happen.
You keep watching with a growing sense of dread because the film never hides the friction between ambition and reality. Soldiers fight like hell, messengers run, commanders argue, and the road keeps choking everything. It feels like watching hope get outpaced by logistics and luck. All those faces and small decisions that couldn’t save them stay in your memory.
There are war films that show destruction, and then there is Come and See, which feels like watching innocence be erased in front of you. The movie begins and Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko) begins as a boy drawn toward war by the kind of excitement only a child could still believe in, and the cruelty of the film lies in how completely it tears that belief apart. By the time the nightmare has fully closed around him, his face carries the kind of exhaustion that should never belong to someone so young. Glasha (Olga Mironova) matters so deeply to the story because every moment beside her feels like a fading connection to warmth, fear, and human tenderness before all of it is swallowed by horror.
What makes the film overwhelming is the way it presents atrocity without distance. Burned villages, collaborators, humiliation, murder — none of it is framed to thrill or impress. Everything lands with a sickening plainness, as if the world itself has accepted the unbearable. That is why the film feels so punishing. It traps you inside endurance, inside witness, inside a reality where survival itself stops feeling like mercy. And with time, Come and See has only grown to feel harsher, clearer, and more essential, because it refuses every lie that cinema so often tells about war.
The Long Good Friday belongs on a list like this because it understands war as something that can move through a city in tailored suits, exploding cars, broken deals, and silent panic. It follows Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins). He begins the film with the swagger of a man who believes power is already his, and what follows is the slow terror of watching that certainty collapse from one blow to the next. Every explosion, every failed arrangement, every new threat tightens the pressure around him until the performance of control starts to look almost desperate. There’s also Victoria (Helen Mirren) who gives the film an added sharpness because her composure makes it clear she sees the shape of the danger long before Harold is willing to face it.
The brilliance of the film, though, is in its escalation. Harold keeps answering chaos with force, intimidation, and brutality, as if sheer will can drag the world back into place, but every move only reveals how little command he really has. Bob Hoskins makes that unraveling unforgettable because he never lets Harold become small; the panic lives inside the character’s personality, inside the fury, inside the dawning realization that the old rules no longer protect him. By the final car sequence, the film reaches something close to pure cinema: a man cornered inside his own understanding, with nowhere left to run and no illusion left to hide behind.
Paths of Glory takes the top spot because almost no film has ever expressed moral fury with such precision and control and yet nobody remembers it. The courtroom scenes are where the film cuts deepest. The film follows, Col. Dax (Kirk Douglas) who tries to defend men who have already been condemned by leaders more interested in preserving authority than confronting truth. He moves through the story with conviction, intelligence, and decency. There are also Gen. Mireau (George Macready) and Gen. Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), who is super chilling.
The film never needs to exaggerate them; their comfort, vanity, and polished certainty make everything around them feel even more rotten. Against the mud, terror, and broken bodies of the battlefield, their world feels not just detached, but obscene. The injustice, therefore, feels organized and procedural in Path of Glory. It is delivered with the confidence of men who know the system was built to protect them. That is what makes it so infuriating. The movie is devastating precisely because it reminds you what war tries to crush in the first place.
December 25, 1957
88 Minutes
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson, Humphrey Cobb
There’s a new star at the top of Prime Video’s TV rankings this week: the British mystery series Young Sherlock starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin in the title role. Created by Matthew Parkhill and developed by Peter Harness and Guy Ritchie, the show reimagines Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic detective as an unruly 19-year-old at Oxford, drawing inspiration from Andrew Lane’s Young Sherlock Holmes books. With exceptional talent in front of and behind the camera, Young Sherlock has proven to be a critical and audience hit, but in case that’s not quite what you’re in the mood for, there’s still plenty more great series of all stripes to check out on the streaming service. Here’s a look at three great shows that we think you should binge on Prime Video this week.
For more recommendations, check out our list of the best shows and movies on Prime Video.
If you’re excited about Nicole Kidman’s imminent Prime Video drama Scarpetta, this 2024 miniseries may be perfect for you. Created and directed by Lulu Wang, Expats is an adaptation of Janice Y. K. Lee’s 2016 novel The Expatriates, starring Kidman, Sarayu Blue, and KPop Demon Hunters voice actor Ji-young Yoo as three American expatriate women living in Hong Kong. The series explores their personal lives, both individually and through their connections to each other, in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy. Brian Tee, Tiana Gowen, Bodhi del Rosario, Ruby Ruiz, Amelyn Pardenilla, and Jack Huston star in significant supporting roles.
Expats’ Prime Video premiere was unfortunately overshadowed by controversies that plagued the production, and despite favorable reviews, the show flew mostly under the radar. That’s a shame, really, because the show is a highly underrated drama centered on some truly stellar performances, particularly by its leading trio. Featuring one of Kidman’s best performances to date on the small screen, Expats is easily one of the best shows of the 2020s so far, and a must-watch for fans of challenging, character-driven melodrama.
Developed by Julie Plec and Carina Adly Mackenzie, We Were Liars is a psychological thriller series adapted from E. Lockhart’s 2014 novel. The show stars Emily Alyn Lind as Cadence “Cady” Sinclair Eastman, the eldest grandchild of the old-money Sinclair family, who suffers a mysterious accident that leaves her with memory loss and intense suspicions about the rest of her family. Caitlin FitzGerald, Mamie Gummer, Candice King, Rahul Kohli, Shubham Maheshwari, Esther McGregor, Joseph Zada, and David Morse star in other key roles.
Sometimes compared to the HBO series Succession, We Were Liars explores similar dysfunctional family dynamics, but with a highly dramatic, psychologically complex narrative that draws equal inspiration from shows like Big Little Lies, Pretty Little Liars, and Cruel Summer. Powered by its compelling performances, the series earned largely favorable reviews from critics and very high viewership on Prime Video, where it premiered in 2025. A second season is currently in the works as well, so it’s a good time to get on board this twisted, soapy journey.
Created by Michael Schur for NBC, The Good Place is a fantasy comedy starring Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop, an exceptionally selfish woman from Phoenix, Arizona. When she dies and finds herself in the Heaven-like afterlife known as “the Good Place,” Eleanor quickly realizes she’s in the wrong place and sets out to cover up her less-than-perfect life by learning ethics and morality from indecisive professor and fellow Good Place resident, Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper). The show also stars Jameela Jamil, D’Arcy Carden, Manny Jacinto, and Ted Danson in lead roles.
The Good Place is, first and foremost, a hilarious comedy with intelligent storytelling that sets it apart from the usual sitcom fare. As the series develops, it reveals more secrets about the afterlife and introduces several memorable characters, evolving into an unexpectedly twisty and philosophical journey. The show was highly acclaimed throughout its four-season run, earning 14 Primetime Emmy nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, and a Peabody Award.
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