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"Blinded by the Light," "Late Night" and other 2019 movies that warranted more accolades and a bigger spotlight.

Here are the 10 most glaring examples of films this past decade where critical praise became overpraise.

Few shows in recent history have received as much attention simply for the clothes as "Succession."

"Parasite" is a worldwide box office phenomenon, a critical sensation and a bona fide awards contender. It's also the rare Korean film to be embraced in the United States.

The departure of David Benioff and D.B. Weiss from the Star Wars universe reveals the anxiety now underlying the ultimate movie franchise.

The "Game of Thrones" prequel pilot starring Naomi Watts is not going to series at HBO, Variety has confirmed with sources. The cast and crew of the pilot were recently informed that HBO had passed on the project.

Since "Joker" is more of an intimate character study rather than a CGI spectacle, Warner Bros. was able to control costs in addition to raking in cash.

In Ronan Farrow's new book "Catch & Kill," former NBC News employee Brooke Nevils alleges that Matt Lauer anally raped her.

They are, friends and colleagues say, a study in contrasts. De Niro, taller in person than he appears on screen, is polite but reserved, delivering responses to queries that can veer toward monosyllabism. Pacino, wiry and more animated, is given to long, discursive answers that occasionally get lost in a bramble of remembrances and anecdotes.

On Nov. 27, just 26 days after it premieres, viewers all over the world will get to see "The Irishman" in the comfort of their own homes. Netflix would ask: What's bad about that? Netflix would say: Welcome to the future. But is it?

MoviePass, the long-struggling theater subscription service, finally appears to be down for the count. On Friday, MoviePass notified all of its remaining subscribers that it would be shutting down the service effective Sept. 14, 2019, because "its efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have not been successful to date," parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics announced.

Months before "Jennifer's Body" hit multiplexes on Sept. 18, 2009, writer Diablo Cody had a feeling the edgy horror-comedy would tank.

Robert Pattinson couldn't stop Googling himself. In mid-May, the 33-year-old actor found himself obsessively refreshing his phone on a flight from Los Angeles to the south of France.

Get ready to re-enter the Matrix.

Dave "El Presidente" Portnoy, founder of media company Barstool Sports, really, really hates unions. Now he's made explicit threats to fire employees who engage in union-organizing activity — a retaliatory move that would violate federal labor laws.

Beneath the market's sparkling surface are riptides that have recently made the Middle Kingdom a trickier place to do business than it already was.

Rutger Hauer, the versatile Dutch leading man of the '70s who went on star in the 1982 "Blade Runner" as Roy Batty, died July 19 at his home in the Netherlands after a short illness. He was 75.

"Spotify Untold" details the Swedish company's failed attempts to topple big guns Netflix, Hulu and most of all, Apple TV.

In an hours-long interview with Variety, Stallone speaks candidly about how the "Rocky" movie series impacted his life and career — catapulting him to worldwide fame but, in his view, also dealing him a gut punch that clearly still stings.

With nine features to his name and possibly just one more to come, Tarantino has crafted an oeuvre ripe for debate.