9.3 BEST NEW SHOW Silo Season 2 give plenty of reasons to go back underground By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s hushed sci-fi series returns, more contemplative than ever.
8.4 BEST NEW MOVIE Out of My Mind captures ups and downs of disabled tween life By: Tim Stevens Disney+’s adaptation of Sharon M. Draper's novel honors its characters largely without treacle.
8.2 BEST NEW MOVIE The spectacle of Gladiator II wants to whisk you away — Let it. By: Sarah Gorr Ridley Scott’s followiup to his 2000 Oscar-winner is unlikely to repeat at the Awards, but is still an entertaining epic that feels plucked from another era of Hollywood.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth staunchly refuses to take sides By: Tim Stevens The three-part documentary series explores the landmark psych study in-depth but offers few conclusions.
9.4 BEST NEW SHOW Say Nothing says plenty By: Tim Stevens Joshua Zetumer’s adaptation of the 2018 nonfiction book wrestles with big ideas without becoming a nine episode lecture.
9.3 BEST NEW MOVIE A Real Pain a real cinematic joy By: Tim Stevens Writer-director Jesse Eisenberg delivers a deeply felt glimpse at family, loss, and regret with help from a perfectly collaborated Kieran Culkin.
8.6 BEST NEW MOVIE Woman of the Hour gives true crime trivia a soul By: Tim Stevens Anna Kendrick’s confident directorial debut pushes the story of so-called "Dating Game Killer" into something more.
8.8 BEST NEW SHOW Shrinking Season 2 invests in self-improvement By: Tim Stevens The Jason Segel-led comedy about flawed therapists returns in better shape than we left it.
8.4 BEST NEW SHOW Teacup barely contains a tempest of distrust By: Tim Stevens Despite only a passing resemblance to the source material, Peacock’s new series is a ripping paranoid tale for the era.
8.5 BEST NEW MOVIE Eerie Caddo Lake an interesting place to visit By: Tim Stevens MAX’s sci-fi drama is being sold on its creeps, but it’s the family dynamics that linger.
8.8 BEST NEW SHOW Disclaimer! This excellent drama comes with the price of deep unease By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s latest tells a dark, enthralling tale of the consequences of revenge run wild.
8.7 BEST NEW SHOW Many will want Nobody Wants This By: Tim Stevens Kristen Bell and Adam Brody elevate Netflix’s mismatched lovers romantic comedy series.
9.0 BEST NEW MOVIE No taming The Wild Robot’s spirit By: Tim Stevens The adaptation of Peter Brown’s novel presents a surprisingly mature consideration of the gains and losses of motherhood, community.
9.2 BEST NEW MOVIE A Different Man dives into an absurdist exploration of identity By: Sarah Gorr Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson are unforgettable as friends and rivals in a beautifully bizarre take on what it means to be human.
9.8 BEST NEW MOVIE The Substance is a female Fight Club that doesn’t pull its punches By: Sarah Gorr Writer/director Coralie Fargeat crafts a nasty, sexy, bloody feature that pits the internal against the external.
8.3 BEST NEW MOVIE Rebel Ridge isn’t quite the top By: Tim Stevens Jeremy Saulnier’s newest film is a good piece of work that only suffers compared to the rest of his filmography
9.2 BEST NEW SHOW Slow Horses Season 4 refuses to be broken By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s stellar spy show packs an emotional wallop in its fourth go-round.
8.9 BEST NEW SHOW Bad Monkey? Good, Actually. By: Tim Stevens Against expectations, Bill Lawrence and Vince Vaughn’s sensibilities merge to create an eminently watchable crime comedy offering for AppleTV+.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Mr. Throwback delivers well off the bench By: Tim Stevens Peacock’s six-episode mockumentary isn’t a blue chip prospect but still plenty of fun.
9.0 BEST NEW MOVIE Kneecap tells a bigger story of Irish identity though hip-hop By: Sarah Gorr Kneecap stars the Irish hip-hop trio as themselves in an exciting, stylish music biopic that refuses to play by the rules.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder intrigues without innovating By: Shannon Campe Netflix's new British mystery is a delightful entry in the Girl Detective genre.
8.8 BEST NEW SHOW Batman: Caped Crusader can’t stop looking over its shoulder By: Tim Stevens The latest take on the Dark Knight from Prime Video recreates The Animate Series vibes—perhaps a bit too faithfully.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Tween reality, not sci-fi spectacle, fits Me best By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+'s sci-fi middle school series excels when making a metaphor of early adolescence but stumbles over a larger mythology.
8.5 BEST NEW MOVIE Mother, Couch’s surrealist family drama is full of big swings By: Sarah Gorr First-time director Niclas Larsson takes huge surrealistic risks, and it’s refreshing to see someone so unafraid to miss.
8.5 BEST NEW MOVIE June Zero is a depressingly relevant film about the past By: Chris Ludovici Jake Paltrow takes a novel look at the crimes and contradictions of the Holocaust.
8.2 BEST NEW SHOW Rashida Jones is anything but Sunny and that’s great By: Tim Stevens The star plays unpleasant with aplomb elevating Sunny, AppleTV+'s near-future robot caper, above its increasingly complicated plot mechanics.
9.5 BEST NEW MOVIE Thelma sets a senior citizen on an Impossible Mission By: B.L. Panther Josh Margolin's charming action-comedy lets June Squibb have the kind of "still got it" energy as Tom Cruise.
Reviews Intimate Indigenous yarn Fancy Dance hits most of the right steps By: Lisa Laman Erica Tremblay crafts an honest, lived-in tale of Indigenous struggle and community.
Reviews Janet Planet’s dreamy summer haze makes it easy to get caught in its orbit By: Sarah Gorr Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s first feature turns a quiet coming-of-age story into an exciting debut.
9.5 BEST NEW MOVIE Tuesday tackles the heaviness of death with a feather-light touch By: B.L. Panther Daina Oniunas-Pusić’s singular debut feature migrates across space and scale with poignant ease.
9.2 BEST NEW SHOW The Boys Season 4 isn’t bulletproof but it gets damn close By: Tim Stevens Prime Video’s satirical superhero series continues to deliver sick gags and trenchant societal analysis.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW Presumed Innocent guilty of being a strong legal thriller By: Tim Stevens The second adaptation of Scott Turow’s novel strips away some of the story’s complications for a deeper character study of Jake Gyllenhaal’s protagonist.
8.3 BEST NEW SHOW Sweet Tooth Season 3 cuts its saccharine with plenty of grimness and brutality By: Tim Stevens Netflix’s take on the “life after a plague” genre concludes on a decidedly mixed note.
8.0 BEST NEW MOVIE Hit Man hits most of the right notes By: Gena Radcliffe Richard Linklater directs Glen Powell in a star-making performance.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW The Acolyte opens new doors in a Galaxy we know well By: Megan Sunday Disney+'s new Star Wars series dares to suggest the Jedi fallibility, risking fan backlash to open up the universe.
9.0 BEST NEW MOVIE Don’t miss the mesmerizing, moving I Saw the TV Glow By: Gena Radcliffe Jane Schoenbrun writes & directs a haunting story of loneliness & obsession.
8.1 BEST NEW SHOW Dark Matter wanders too far before finds a satisfying path By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s newest science fiction offering struggles with pacing between its bracing opener and powerful final two hours.
8.9 BEST NEW MOVIE The Fall Guy’s jaw-dropping stunts hit their marks By: Justin Harrison Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt charm and thrill—carrying The Fall Guy over the gap between its thin script and its joyful execution.
8.3 BEST NEW SHOW Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 takes success in stride By: Tim Stevens The season’s trio of opening episodes find the doc series resisting a victory lap in favor of continuing to focus on life beyond the pitch.
8.9 BEST NEW SHOW Knuckles’ zany buddy comedy is worth digging into on Paramount+ By: Justin Harrison Idris Elba and Adam Pally's chemistry anchors the consistently hysterical and well-choreographed miniseries.
8.7 BEST NEW SHOW Step right up to The Big Door Prize Season 2 By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s feel-good supernatural comedy returns with a willingness to be messier and more complicated.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Conan O’Brien Must Go (to Max), and you must follow By: Clint Worthington The comedian travels the world, and leaves a trail of laughs and mayhem in his wake.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW Max’s new series The Sympathizer reflects on Vietnam through media and memory By: Clint Worthington Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr. expertly adapt Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel about war, identity, and cultural consumption.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Prime Video’s Fallout is a Vault-Tec-approved glance at the apocalypse By: Lauren Coates Strap on your Pip-Boys, boys and girls, Amazon's done it again.
10.0 BEST NEW SHOW Netflix’s Ripley soaks its shades of grey in delicious black and white By: Clint Worthington Steven Zaillian crafts a methodical, darkly funny adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, with Andrew Scott at his chilly best.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Sugar brings new flavors to Los Angeles noir By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+ gets strange with a Colin Farrell in their film-obsessed new LA-noir crime drama.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 sees the series die as it lived: in good company By: Andrew Bloom The series’ last batch of episodes comes with all the ups and downs fans have come to expect over the past five seasons.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW X-Men ’97 forces your childhood to grow up on Disney+ By: Clint Worthington Disney revives the fan-favorite Fox cartoon for its now-adult fans, running headfirst into grown-up issues and anime-inspired action.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Manhunt well worth the search on AppleTV+ By: Tim Stevens The dramatic look at the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth is compelling, but truly succeeds by focusing on much more than just the assassination.
9.5 BEST NEW MOVIE The impeccable Love Lies Bleeding flexes its way through bloody lesbian noir By: Justin Harrison Rose Glass' neon-soaked crime thriller is a perfectly arch, deviously dark romance.
8.1 BEST NEW SHOW Doff your cap and take a knee before The Regime By: Tim Stevens MAX’s Kate Winslet-starring series doesn't offer the sharpest satirical jabs, but there’s something to be said for being funny & frightening.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Season 3 of The Bad Batch closes on a satisfying note By: Megan Sunday The final season of the Star Wars side adventure goes to some unexpectedly moving places.
8.5 BEST NEW MOVIE In Dune: Part Two, the spice must flow, and so must the blood of nonbelievers By: Clint Worthington Denis Villeneuve finishes his epic two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel with sprawling scope and thorny politics.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW Dior and Chanel battle over bolts in wartime Paris in the star-studded The New Look By: B.L. Panther Apple TV+'s latest miniseries blends fashion with fascism in its dramatization of the couture wars of the 1940s and '50s.
8.6 BEST NEW SHOW Navigate by this Constellation for dread you can’t shake By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s latest foray into sci-fi, Constellation starring Noomi Rapace, is short on resolutions but long on atmosphere.
8.3 BEST NEW SHOW Chemistry makes One Day worth your time By: Tim Stevens Netflix’s new romance limited series offers a thoughtful, warm adaptation of the 2009 novel.
9.5 BEST NEW SHOW Abbott Elementary is top of the class By: Shannon Campe The sitcom remains consistently charming and funny in its third season premiere.
8.8 BEST NEW SHOW Mr. and Mrs. Smith offers old code names, new missions, better product By: Chris Ludovici Amazon’s excellent reboot seems more interested in interrogating Bond movies and television domestic dramas than its thin source material.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW A Criminal Record of sins past, echoing still By: Tim Stevens AppleTV+’s new crime drama compellingly juggles issues of race, internal politics, and family dynamics.
9.0 BEST NEW SHOW True Detective deftly navigates the weirdness of Night Country By: Justin Harrison Jodie Foster and Kali Reis shine as a pair of detectives investigating an increasingly surreal crime.
8.9 BEST NEW MOVIE Michael Mann fills Ferrari with all his sound and fury By: Justin Harrison Adam Driver does insightful, searching work as auto legend Enzo Ferrari in the filmmaker's study of a pivotal year in his life.
8.0 BEST NEW MOVIE The Color Purple paints a picture of community By: B.L. Panther Blitz Bazawule's adaptation of the Alice Walker classic (and the Broadway musical) is a more joyful, celebratory film than its predecessor.
9.8 BEST NEW MOVIE The Zone of Interest presents the Holocaust with minimum spectacle and maximum terror By: Matt Cipolla The writer/director’s first feature in 10 years is a near-unclassifiable work, emotionally flattening yet fundamentally opposed to mining tension through its craft.
8.0 BEST NEW SHOW Doctor Who splits hairs in The Giggle and teases a bisected future By: Clint Worthington David Tennant's final(?) special as the Fourteenth Doctor is a giddy, overstuffed callback to the excesses of the Russell T. Davies era -- with a suitably overbaked guest star and a dashing preview of adventures to come.
8.1 BEST NEW SHOW Hulu offers something more interesting than the usual Culprits By: Tim Stevens The heist thriller series stays compelling even as it grows more typical.
8.0 BEST NEW MOVIE Poor Things is a weird & wonderful Frankenstein story By: Gena Radcliffe Yorgos Lanthimos directs a sumptuous adult fairy tale featuring Emma Stone at her very best.
8.1 BEST NEW SHOW Scott Pilgrim Takes Off what’s come before in favor of dawning something new and wonderful By: Justin Harrison The ScienceSaru-produced animated series rebuilds rather than retells Bryan Lee O'Malley's beloved comic.
8.0 BEST NEW MOVIE Killers of the Flower Moon confirms Martin Scorsese’s undiminished talent By: Peter Sobczynski The chronicling of the Osage Nation’s early 20th-century tragedy proves powerful and prescient.
9.0 BEST NEW MOVIE Clock strikes true with surreal, character-based terror By: Lauren Coates Writer/director Alexis Jacknow's feature debut boasts strong craft and a stupendous, frightening turn from Diana Argon as a woman coming undone.