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Ted Lasso finds Richmond’s new direction lost in Amsterdam

"Sunflowers" gives everyone a reset button heading into the back half of Season 3.

Rachel Weisz pulls double duty in Prime’s devious Dead Ringers

By: Lauren Coates

The David Cronenberg psychodrama gets a cold, clinical facelift for streaming, with a wild dual turn from Rachel Weisz.

Netflix provides evidence Obsession can only lead to bad ends

By: Tim Stevens

The streamer’s new attempt at an erotic thriller series occasionally titillates but can’t find a real emotional anchor. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch Certain events dig so deep into our culture that they define many subsequent examples of the form. Watergate has led to decades of any possibly notable scandal receiving a -gate suffix. Any ... Netflix provides evidence Obsession can only lead to bad ends

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Slip never stumbles

By: Tim Stevens

Roku’s new series delivers a surprisingly poetic take on multidimensional longing and acceptance.

Goodbyes & decisions are complicated in Succession

Unexpected news comes to one of the Roys as the family attempts to move forward.

The fourth season of Barry is its richest and darker accomplishment

An already great show gets taken to the next level of depth and craftsmanship in an endlessly audacious fourth and final season.

Do not take the trip to see Florida Man

An overlong miniseries offers nothing new for those remotely experienced in Tarantino pastiches and mystery thrillers.

What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in April: Small Axe, One Fine Morning, House of 1000 Corpses, Cowboy Bebop, and More

Reject modernity, embrace physical media.

The Mandalorian ranks grow this week but tensions (and the Empire) rise

“The Spies” brings out the baddies and Grogu stretches his legs in a lore-heavy episode.

Beau Is Afraid is a hilarious epic that revels in the absurdity of fear

Ari Aster’s latest leaves the straightforward horror genre behind for something far, far weirder.

In its penultimate episode, Star Trek: Picard is awash in cheap twists and cheaper nostalgia

By: Andrew Bloom

The series bends over backward to reach the foes and families of the past and nearly breaks an otherwise solid season to get there.

Campy Cage aside, Renfield lumbers into overly familiar vampire territory

By: Clint Worthington

Nic Cage sinks his teeth into Count Dracula's camp menace, but the movie around him is a limp action-comedy that doesn't know what it wants to be.

Am I Being Unreasonable? pits motherhood and memory against twists and truth

By: Megan Sunday

Hulu’s latest import focuses on the secrets we all carry and the lengths we go to in order to live with them.

Ted Lasso sends two characters packing, and not a moment too soon

In "Signs," Richmond continues to unravel after their big loss.

The Last Thing He Told Me is a good tale

By: Tim Stevens

AppleTV+’s adaptation of the best-seller doesn’t reinvent the wheel but offers consistently strong storytelling.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ends its run with style and profundity

By: Andrew Bloom

The colorful banter and big laughs abound, and so does a deeper story about the characters’ challenges and what they mean to one another. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch When a show enters its final season, it has an opportunity to decide what it really wants to say. And what The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel wants ... The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ends its run with style and profundity

Succession pulls the rug out from under the Roys & the audience

Logan is gone, but the damage lives on in a lockdown for one of the best TV moments of 2023.

“You’re not really a welder, are you?” Flashdance at 40

By: Peter Sobczynski

Forty years on, Adrian Lyne's tale of welding, dancing, dreaming, and cold-shoulder sweaters still leaves us all feeling like maniacs.

On a Wing and a Prayer is a creatively rocky flight that will put you to sleep

This faith-based flight starring Dennis Quaid is one you can safely skip.

The Mandalorian visits a party planet where old resentments bubble under the surface

“Guns for Hire” sends Din and Bo-Katan on a police procedural side-quest while Grogu has a day off and more Mandalorians join the fray.

Beef gives the audience plenty to chew on

By: Tim Stevens

Netflix’s new series is its most significant television success in some time.

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