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Johnny Oleksinski – Entertainment Critic | New York Post
Johnny Oleksinski

Johnny Oleksinski

Johnny Oleksinski is an entertainment critic at New York Post.

Background

Since 2018, Johnny has been The Post’s primary voice for movies and theater as its entertainment critic. He also serves as Page Six's entertainment critic. He began at The Post as an entertainment reporter in 2015. Before moving to New York, he was a theater writer/editor at the Chicago Tribune and was chief theater critic of Newcity Chicago. He is a voting member of the New York Drama Critics Circle. Johnny majored in theater at Illinois State University. He lives in the East Village.

 

 

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Johnny Oleksinski

Brilliant Patrick Stewart was ‘Star Trek’s all-time greatest captain

October 29, 2026 | 6:37pm

As Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Stewart, who died Wednesday at 86, was perfect — dashing, funny, powerful and paternal in ways both warm and scary.

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The endless James Bond search is worse than a presidential election cycle

October 24, 2026 | 4:16pm

You mean to tell me it took half a decade to winnow the field to the same three British men and one Aussie who are already in everything? 

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‘The Imaginary Invalid’ review: Unfunny Molière revival on Broadway makes you scream ‘Sacré bleu!’

October 22, 2026 | 10:00pm

Perhaps the audience in the Todd Haimes Theatre imagined that they had laryngitis. Because the laughs certainly did not flow freely at the recent performance of Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid”...

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Johnny Oleksinski

The sweet and folksy musical ‘Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ wants to go to Broadway

October 21, 2026 | 10:00pm

Much as Benjamin Button ages backwards from elderly to infant, the new musical “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” also starts off unrecognizably from where it ultimately winds up. From...

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Johnny Oleksinski

Billy Crystal pays tribute to house lost in Palisades fire in hilarious, heartbreaking one-man show

October 21, 2026 | 10:00pm

What the extraordinary Billy Crystal manages in “860,” his latest one-man Broadway show that opened Wednesday night at the Imperial Theatre, is a feat.

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‘Clayface’ review: DC’s gory and grotesque body horror movie would scar kids for life

October 21, 2026 | 3:00pm

This delightfully disgusting flick walks its own sick path. It’s gross. In a fun way! 

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‘Klara and the Sun’ review: Jenna Ortega plays an annoying robot in sci-fi slop

October 21, 2026 | 9:00am

Oh, look — another weird role for Jenna Ortega.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Allison Janney’s Broadway play has laughs, but no bite

October 19, 2026 | 12:01am

“Other Desert Cities,” like so many plays, is about a family with issues, to say the very least.

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‘Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen’ review: Musical Duncan Sheik was working on when he died is an awkward letdown

October 17, 2026 | 4:02pm

Sheik’s score, while far from perfect, is not really the main problem for “Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen,” the clumsy and uncomfortable musical that opened Thursday in the old “Sleep No...

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‘You Can See Everything’ review: Wild Elizabeth Holmes doc is one of the craziest movies I’ve ever seen

October 16, 2026 | 2:00pm

Movies don’t come much wilder than “You Can See Everything,” Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s brilliant, up-close-and-personal documentary about convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes that’s already the talker of the year.

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‘La Bola Negra’ review: Spanish gay drama is one of the best movies of the year

October 15, 2026 | 4:11pm

This sprawling war film, which won the all-important People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and the top prize at the Hamptons International Film Festival, should be enthusiastically...

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Man gets swallowed alive by a whale in preposterous survival ‘movie’Whalefall’

October 14, 2026 | 2:28pm

The dumb movie "Whalefall" lost me countless times over its increasingly ridiculous oceanic voyage. 

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Newest take on Jane Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ is weirdly gloomy and depressing

October 12, 2026 | 6:44pm

Just what people go to Jane Austen for — depression!

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Critics killed Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ — and clueless Hollywood is fighting back

October 10, 2026 | 3:51pm

After some scathing reviews, Tom Cruise’s “Digger” became the flop heard ‘round the world. Tom tanked so hard, his wreck is on track to be one of the biggest flops...

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Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel ‘The Social Reckoning’ is a plodding, unnecessary bore

October 9, 2026 | 4:34pm

Next to "The Social Network," foghorn “Reckoning” is forgettable, obvious and unaccomplished.

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‘Other Mommy’ review: Jessica Chastain’s awful horror movie is so stupid, you’ll have to redo high school

October 9, 2026 | 12:58pm

At “Other Mommy” the only question is: Did the filmmakers kidnap Jessica Chastain?

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‘Misty Green’ review: Chris Rock viciously criticizes Hollywood

October 7, 2026 | 5:11pm

Even if Rock’s vivisection of showbiz ultimately doesn't come together, it holds your interest with a frenetic push and jagged turns and features a stunner of a performance from Rosalind...

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‘Verity’ review: Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson star in predictable real-estate-porn thriller

September 30, 2026 | 4:41pm

How many more outwardly perfect couples with immaculate, modern homes that conceal dark secrets can Hollywood possibly come up with?

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‘Digger’ review: Tom Cruise’s laugh-free turd will have audiences stampeding out

September 29, 2026 | 12:00pm

Tom Cruise’s latest film, “Digger” — the actor’s first real stinker in nearly 10 years — really is a rage-inducing sit.

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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ review: Badass monster sequel is sensational

September 27, 2026 | 3:03am

The awesome “Godzilla Minus Zero,” which had its world premiere Saturday night at the New York Film Festival, embraces the principle that has guided this franchise for seven decades: The...