Johnny Oleksinski

Johnny Oleksinski

Background

Johnny Oleksinski has been The Post’s entertainment critic, its leading voice on movies and theater, since 2018. 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, and can be heard every Tuesday morning at 9:30 on WOR Radio.

Latest Articles

Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix sing for no reason in pointless 'Joker: Folie a Deux' sequel

Director Todd Phillips somehow saw this as a logical opportunity for the pair to perform a Broadway musical’s worth of songs — a good fifteen, all told.

Broadway's Ken Page, star of 'Cats' and 'The Wiz', dead at 70

Ken Page, the formidable Broadway actor and voice of Oogie Boogie in the film “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” has died.

Robert Downey Jr.'s awful Broadway play about AI is a total wipeout

The tiresome Broadway play “McNeal,” starring Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center, is about every windbag’s favorite topic — AI.

Nicole Scherzinger emerges from theater in nightgown, covered in 'blood'

No, the former Pussycat Doll didn’t get into a fistfight in Shubert Alley, she’s the star of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway musical “Sunset Blvd.,” which started previews last weekend. 

Beloved Tony-winning Broadway star dead at 48

Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway musicals such as “Hello, Dolly!” and “Hair,” died Monday in Manhattan, his partner confirmed. He was 48.

'Hills of California' review: A cutthroat new stage mother on Broadway

At the Broadhurst Theatre, where Jez Butterworth’s new play “The Hills of California” opened on Sunday night, lives Laura Donnelly's stern and captivating Veronica Webb.

Dana Carvey makes a brilliant, doddering Joe Biden on 'SNL' premiere

It was a big and brilliant move to bring back “SNL” legend Carvey as a hilarious President Biden

One of 'Saturday Night Live''s greatest legacies? Movies that have zero to do with 'SNL'

“SNL,” which begins its 50th season this weekend, has had a surprisingly rich cinematic history … only with films that were not based on sketches.

'The Wild Robot' review: Machine adventure is the best family film of the year

From DreamWorks Animation, “Robot” instantly joins the ranks of that studio’s most memorable properties, such as the wondrous “How To Train Your Dragon” and “Kung Fu Panda.”

50 years on, can 'Saturday Night Live' ever return to its glory days?

“Saturday Night Live," which kicks off its 50th season this weekend on NBC, ain’t what she used to be.

Beloved 'Harry Potter' and 'Downton Abbey' star dead at 89

Dame Maggie Smith, the British legend of the stage and screen who enjoyed a seven-decade career in show business, died on Friday. She was 89. Her sons Toby Stephens and...

Francis Ford Coppola’s $100 million, 4-decade passion project is a zero-star, wacko disaster

“Megalopolis,” for all its high-minded ideals, is impossible to like.

Why does everything have to be a song-and-dance number all of a sudden?

Actors in “Joker: Folie à Deux,” Netflix’s “Emilia Pérez” and Disney+’s “Agatha All Along” are belting out songs like they’re gunning for a Tony Award.

'Wolfs' review: Dreadful, laugh-free slog tests limits of what Pitt, Clooney's star power can salvage

Clooney and Pitt play rival New York fixers in this dreadful, laugh-free slog that tests the limits of what wrecks star power alone can salvage.

'Life of Chuck' review: TIFF People's Choice winner is tedious sap

Based on Stephen King’s not-at-all-scary short story, the one-note movie starring Tom Hiddleston unfolds backwards in three soupy parts, and is narrated by Nick Offerman like a lumberjack Dr. Seuss

At the Emmys, bored stars looked like they didn't want to be there

Hollywood celebrated the end of summer at the Emmy Awards on Sunday night.

What you missed at the Emmys: 'Shogun''s big night, 'Happy Days,' 'West Wing' reunions, and more

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Sexy stars are doing great work — and turning heads — at close to 60

Nicole Kidman, Demi Moore and Pamela Anderson — three names I never thought I’d lump together — are doing some of the boldest and most dangerous work of their careers.

The Emmys are the most irrelevant and pointless award show

The Emmy Awards, which airs Sunday, Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. EST on ABC, has always been peculiar. And a snooze.

Nicole Kidman scorches in shocking intern sex drama 'Babygirl'

But rarely is that workplace taboo as scintillating as it is in “Babygirl,” a captivating psychological drama starring Nicole Kidman that had its North American premiere Tuesday at the Toronto...