Matt Rife Sets Two Netflix Comedy Specials, Including First Full-Length Crowd...
More Matt Rife is coming to Netflix. Following his comedy special “Natural Selection” in November 2023, Rife will make two more specials on Netflix. The first in Rife’s two-special deal is set to...
View ArticleAndrew Scott Is Utterly Charmless in Netflix’s Somber ‘Ripley’: TV Review
Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 crime novel, “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” is regarded as one of the greatest thrillers of all time. It has spawned several film adaptations, including Anthony Minghella’s “The...
View ArticleJulianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine Make Irreverently Erotic Starz Drama...
It’s hard to get a handle on “Mary & George,” the 17th-century historical drama that premieres on Starz this week after last month’s initial run in the U.K. The tale of how the title characters...
View ArticleColin Farrell’s ‘Sugar’ Is a Clumsy, Cliché L.A. Noir With a Baffling Twist:...
If John Sugar, the PI played by a gravel-voiced Colin Farrell in the eponymous crime drama “Sugar,” seems like too much a collection of noir clichés and male fantasies to be a plausible protagonist,...
View Article‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Finale: A ‘Seinfeld’ Throwback, Plus Charm, Minus...
SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses plot points from the series finale of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Larry David got the opportunity to revise the controversial ending he’d chosen for his first widely...
View ArticleJoni Mitchell Rewrites ‘I’m Still Standing’ and Metallica Slays ‘Love Lies...
Even on a day when much of America was hoping to see the sun go out, there’s still an ongoing need to hear someone sing “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me.” That, among many other things, is what’s...
View ArticlePrime Video’s ‘Fallout’ Is an Ultra-Violent and Twistedly Fun Video Game...
The big and small screens are stuffed full of post-apocalyptic adventures, yet despite that cluttered landscape, few shows and films stick out to offer something unique for viewers. However, in...
View ArticleHBO’s ‘The Sympathizer’ Effectively Uses a Shape-Shifting Robert Downey Jr....
The first sound you hear in every episode of “The Sympathizer” is the whir of a projector. Like the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel on which it’s based, the seven-part HBO series is structured as a...
View ArticleMichael Douglas’ ‘Franklin’ Is an Exhausting Account of a Secret Mission...
When pondering the Revolutionary War, specific inflection points come to mind. The Boston Massacre of 1770, Paul Revere’s midnight warning in 1775 and the signing of the Declaration of Independence in...
View ArticleNetflix’s ‘Good Times’ Reboot Is Dated, Humorless and Baffling: TV Review
Fifty years ago, “Good Times” became the first sitcom to depict a two-parent Black American family. Now, Netflix is debuting a present-day animated reboot chronicling the Evanses two generations after...
View ArticleRiley Keough and Lily Gladstone Anchor Hulu’s Heartbreaking Murder Mystery...
In Hulu’s dark, gripping “Under the Bridge,” adapted for television by Quinn Shephard and based on Rebecca Godfrey’s 2005 nonfiction account of the same name, the audience finds itself in the...
View Article‘Conan O’Brien Must Go’ Is a Keeper: TV Review
The key to understanding Conan O’Brien’s comedy is knowing that it comes from a point of kindness. Yes, I know in this age of comics punching down, this kind of compliment may leave you with a neon...
View ArticleNetflix’s ‘Baby Reindeer’ Is a Brilliant and Jarring Account of Stalking,...
In his seven-part Netflix miniseries, “Baby Reindeer,” adapted from his one-man show, Scottish writer and comedian Richard Gadd recounts the true story of being harassed and stalked for years....
View ArticleRoku’s ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ Lacks the Excitement and Adventure of the...
There’s a lot of magic in “The Spiderwick Chronicles.” Based on the acclaimed children’s fantasy books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, and adapted for television by Aron Eli Coleite, the TV show is...
View Article‘The Sandman’ Spinoff ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Adapts Neil Gaiman’s Comic as a...
“The Sandman,” Neil Gaiman’s classic supernatural comic turned Netflix series, is a sweeping epic in which abstract concepts like Dream (Tom Sturridge) and Death (Kirby) take human form, traversing...
View Article‘Mother Play’ Review: Jessica Lange Is an Unhinged Delight in Dysfunctional...
There is no handbook on motherhood, but most people try their best when it comes to childrearing. Today, amid increasingly accessible resources and freedoms that weren’t afforded in the past, parenting...
View ArticleElisabeth Moss Stuns in FX’s Fascinating Spy Thriller ‘The Veil’: TV Review
In FX’s gripping new miniseries “The Veil,” right versus wrong isn’t a straightforward calculation, and truth is more confounding than it seems. The action series follows cunning MI6 agent Imogen...
View Article‘Hacks’ Is at the Peak of Its Powers in a Confident Season 3: TV Review
At the end of its second season, “Hacks” seemed to have written itself into a corner. On the heels of a hit special, veteran stand-up Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) fired Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder),...
View ArticlePeacock’s ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ Is a Gruesome and Grueling...
Specific images of the Holocaust have endlessly punctuated the film and TV landscape: The barbed wire of a concentration camp. Naked bodies rendered to skin and bone, tossed in discarded piles. Gleeful...
View ArticleNetflix’s ‘A Man in Full’ Puts a One-Note Jeff Daniels in an Empty Suit: TV...
“A Man in Full,” the sprawling Tom Wolfe novel now adapted by screenwriter David E. Kelley into a limited series for Netflix, centers on a protagonist who, for all his resources, can’t bend the world...
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