David Simon and Ed Burns’ adaptation of the Philip Roth novel paints a harrowing picture of an alternate America that feels all too prescient.
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Amazon’s adaptation of the Roberto Saviano novel is far too passive and jumbled to capture your interest.
Netflix’s new spy series is more than a little uneven, but it’s an original thriller that blends cultural specificity and mainstream appeal.
Jim Jarmusch’s most gentle, sentimental film finds the lyrical beauty in an everyday working class life.
From HBO (Chernobyl, Watchmen, Succession) to Netflix (Russian Doll, The Crown, Stranger Things) and beyond, we break down the best TV of the year.
Irene Taylor Brodsky’s intimate look at her family’s relationship to deafness and music gives way to melodrama.
Amy Sherman-Palladino’s quick-witted Amazon comedy returns for a third season of beautiful dresses and chiffon-thin stakes.
Willem Dafoe and some cute puppies aren’t enough to save this dull, overlong adventure.
Nora Ephron’s charming Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan comedy also makes the case for letting yourself be vulnerable and brave.
Netflix’s single-room stage play adaptation fails as an “important” look at race relations.
Timothy Greenberg’s leaden, frustrating series is too lackadaisical to explore its clone-centric premise. Living with Yourself is the […]
A look back at the movie that inadvertently launched a toxic movement & the TV series that better understood postmodern pain.
Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy poignantly swim through the recesses of time, animation and the mind in an ingenious new series.
It may be prefaced by a brilliant, heartfelt short, but Sony Pictures Animation’s latest, like its adaptation, is a huge waste of time.
Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss can’t quite spice up the underdone intrigue of this ’70s-set comic book adaptation.
Pippa Bianco dives headfirst into the complexities of life after sexual assault in a smartphone-heavy world.
Katee Sackhoff and an improbably attractive crew can’t save this DOA sci-fi series.
One of the few Tarantino scripts not directed by the man himself, Tony Scott’s “True Romance” is a tragically too-cool crime thriller that doesn’t age well.