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Swarm Review: Donald Glover Pokes the BeyHive
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March 15, 2023
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Bob Odenkirk's return to AMC is no 'Better Call Saul,' but if campus drama is your comfort food, you'll want to dig in.
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March 11, 2023
Review: Champions Spotlights Disabled Actors
Woody Harrelson coaches a crew of disabled basketball players in this gentle comedy.
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March 10, 2023
'All the Beauty' Is a Must-See Oscar Movie
The unlikely story of an artist who has always aligned herself with marginalized communities risking her career to ruin the reputation of an obscenely privileged family that spent billions laundering it.
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March 9, 2023
HBO's 'Rain Dogs' Is Like Nothing Else on TV
First-time creator Cash Carraway crafts a magnificently dark, unapologetically crude portrait of a toxic friendship fueled by real love
By Judy Berman
March 6, 2023
Blueback Is a Gorgeous Mother-Daughter Story
Mia Wasikowska stars in a gentle film about a fraught relationship between a mother and daughter and the underwater cause that unites them
By Stephanie Zacharek
March 3, 2023
'Daisy Jones & the Six' Is Embarrassing
Shallow portraits of pop genius are the norm across narrative art forms, which are poorly equipped to capture the ineffable qualities of music
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March 1, 2023
Mel Brooks' History of the World Pt II Review
Wonderfully intergenerational, the show is both an anointing of the many heirs to Brooks’ comedy throne and proof that he remains relevant after all these years
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Idris Elba Almost Saves the Luther Movie
Sometimes 'The Fallen Sun' is genuinely creepy, other times, it’s just eyeroll-inducing. But the mere presence of Idris Elba is a saving grace
By Stephanie Zacharek
February 24, 2023
Christoph Waltz Terrifies in 'The Consultant'
When it comes to crafting white-collar villains, the management consultant is well qualified to fill the role of big bad
By Judy Berman
February 23, 2023
How God Made Beth Moore a Feminist (Kind Of)
The controversial Bible teacher's new memoir 'All My Knotted Up Life' tells a story of faith and personal evolution
By Belinda Luscombe
February 21, 2023
'Emily' Is a Haunting Portrait of a Brontë
Frances O'Connor's film fills in the blanks of what the 'Wuthering Heights' author's life might have been
By Stephanie Zacharek
February 17, 2023
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Party Down Is Still Laugh-Till-You-Cry Funny
There’s no such thing as perfection, but the Starz cult comedy about a crew of L.A. cater waiters got pretty damn close.
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February 16, 2023
Magic Mike's Last Dance Loses Too Much Steam
The third installment, directed by Steven Soderbergh, features Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek in a movie that only briefly lives up to its stars
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February 8, 2023
'True Spirit' Is an Ode to Teen Independence
The Netflix adventure tells the story of Jessica Watson, who at age 16 became the youngest person to sail around the world solo
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February 2, 2023
'Dear Edward' Wants to Make You Weep
Creator Jason Katims' weepy sensibility, distributed across half a dozen intersecting plots and hammered home by a plaintive indie-folk soundtrack, makes for a crushingly earnest melodrama
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February 2, 2023
'Knock at the Cabin' Is a Preachy Horror Film
M. Night Shyamalan's latest is a sometimes tense but largely cumbersome parable about modern families
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February 2, 2023
The 5 Best New Shows of January 2023
From Poker Face to Fight the Power to The Lying Lives of Adults
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January 31, 2023
'The Watchful Eye' Is Bonkers in the Best Way
The Freeform drama has no highbrow aspirations. It’s just a solidly built domestic thriller—and that's refreshing
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January 30, 2023
One Fine Morning Is a Quiet, Sturdy Portrait
Mia Hansen-Løve's latest drama stars Léa Seydoux as a woman stuck in between
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January 27, 2023
1619 Project Is Bolder Than Ever in New Doc
Even the least controversial revisionist histories rarely gain a foothold without repetition—and in this case, stories new and old transcend partisan polemic when viewers get to see the faces behind them.
By Judy Berman
January 26, 2023
Zany 'Extraordinary' Lives Up to Its Name
Remember the name Emma Moran, for she has achieved what once seemed impossible: She’s created a superhero comedy that’s actually funny.
By Judy Berman
January 25, 2023
'Poker Face' Is a Perfect Midwinter Gift
Quippy, scrappy, and disarmingly caring, protagonist Charlie has a superpower befitting Lyonne’s street-smart persona: she can always tell when someone’s lying.
By Judy Berman
January 25, 2023
Salman Rushdie Makes Fairy Tale Feel Like History
'Victory City,' the author's first book since he was attacked, will be published in early February
By Nicholas Mancusi
January 25, 2023
Cat Person Makes a Mess Out of a Good Story
Susanna Fogel's adaptation of the 2017 New Yorker story about the perils of dating takes everything admirable about its source material and spins it into an overloaded mess
By Stephanie Zacharek
January 23, 2023
Review: Jason Segel's Unbearable 'Shrinking'
The practice of setting and enforcing emotional boundaries seems pretty self-evidently healthy. What this deeply irritating new Apple TV+ dramedy proposes is, well, maybe it isn’t.
By Judy Berman
January 23, 2023
'You People' Strains to Make Its Points
Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill's comedy about an interracial relationship stretches hard to make its points, but for the most part it’s terminally safe
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January 20, 2023
In Review: When You Finish Saving the World
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January 20, 2023
'Spare' Is Surprisingly Well Written
The book's opening evokes none other than William Shakespeare
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'The Last of Us' Is Stunning But Sadistic
From the performances to the storytelling to the aesthetic elements, it’s an exquisitely made adaptation. But it also asks viewers to absorb a whole lot of human misery without saying much that we haven’t already heard in similar shows.
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January 10, 2023
'Matilda the Musical' Is a Lively Reimagining
The new Netflix movie is a fleet and entertaining film version of the 2011 stage show, itself adapted from Roald Dahl's 1988 novel
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Iranian Drama 'No Bears' Shows an Artist Fighting Despair
In Jafar Panahi's latest film, defiance is the ultimate act of survival
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'Corsage' Is An Intimate, Imaginative Film
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Review: 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody'
The biopic perfectly captures Whitney Houston’s exuberant contradictions, and the joy she took and gave in performing
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The Pale Blue Eye Is a Chilly Murder Mystery
The wintry murder mystery starring Christian Bale is a whodunit reinvented as a 19th-century mood board
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Babylon Mangles the Spirit of Early Hollywood
Damien Chazelle's new film pretends to be a movie about “loving movies,” but more than anything else, it seeks to reflect glory on its creator
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If Only Avatar 2 Lived Up to Its Looks
You can’t knock James Cameron’s visual gifts, but though the story itself is designed to seem engagingly complex, there’s nothing about it that’s particularly moving
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December 13, 2022
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In a season about love as delusion, the show convinced viewers that its inevitable conclusion couldn't possibly happen.
By Judy Berman
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Empire of Light Falls Short Despite Actors
Sam Mendes' drama starring Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward stumbles under the weight of its intentions
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio Is a Pure Vision
Guillermo del Toro’s love for misunderstood creatures shines in the filmmaker's take on Pinocchio
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Kindred Is a Solid Octavia Butler Adaptation
It is absolutely wild that it has taken nearly half a century for the author's masterpiece to be adapted for the screen
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'Lady Chatterley's Lover' Is Steamy and Fresh
A steamy new Netflix adaptation feels like a shout of freedom as movies become more, not less, sexually repressed
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Sort Of Season 2 Makes Ideal Holiday Viewing
Bilal Baig's HBO Max dramedy returns with a wonderful season about love in general but family in particular
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