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January 14, 2022

Brazen is a hollow attempt at rekindling made for TV movie magic

Netflix continues to dip from the well of nostalgia in a not as tawdry as it wants to be murder mystery.
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December 31, 2021

The Lost Daughter casts a jaundiced eye on motherhood

Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a confident writing/directorial debut in an unsettling but empathetic drama about two women on vacation with all too much in common.
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December 28, 2021

Criterion Corner: The Learning Tree, One Night in Miami…

Two astonishing debuts from Black filmmakers populate Criterion's December offerings.
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December 12, 2021

Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley has little behind the flim-flam

The auteur's update of the 1946 novel is a film noir steeped in too much of the author's romanticism.
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December 2, 2021

“You’re not curator of anything!” Ragtime at 40

Milos Forman's 1981 adaptation of the E.L. Doctorow novel survived a change of directors to become a fascinating cult curio 40 years on.
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October 15, 2021

Just Beyond does just enough to become a diverting Halloween treat

Though often too generic for its own good, Just Beyond is a solid TV show rooted in the world of R.L. Stine. 
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October 13, 2021

Dune may not hold your hand, but it might blow your mind

Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of (the first half of) Frank Herbert's novel is as ambitious in scope as it is difficult to unpack.
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October 11, 2021

You moves its sinister lead to the suburbs in season 3

The Netflix dark comedy is as watchable as ever, while still struggling with what it wants the audience to think about its protagonist.
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September 23, 2021

Foundation is solid enough to build upon in its early stretch

Apple TV+’s latest sci-fi series is a glossy, gorgeous-looking adaptation of the Isaac Asimov novels, which nonetheless struggles to find humanity among its big ideas...
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September 17, 2021

TIFF 2021: The Forgiven offers up yet more rich white people problems

Despite its top shelf cast & capable direction, this drama about tourists behaving badly is nothing we haven't seen before.