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.
8.4 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.