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“A Christmas Prince 3: The Royal Baby” Delivers More Holiday Absurdity

Christmas Prince 3: The Royal Baby
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Netflix’s flagship feel-good Christmas series kicks off with another comfortably cheesy romp.

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 Movies

Klaus Review: Putting an Animated Spin on Santa

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Netflix’s Christmas offerings get an animated upgrade in this familiar but handsomely hand-drawn take on the Santa story.

Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 Movies

The Knight Before Christmas Review: Netflix Goes Medieval for Christmas

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Netflix continues its ongoing battle with Hallmark for the souls of middling Christmas movies everywhere. In an effort […]

Posted on November 21, 2019November 21, 2019 Movies

“American Son” Review: Racism for Dummies

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Netflix’s single-room stage play adaptation fails as an “important” look at race relations.

Posted on November 11, 2019November 10, 2019 Movies

“The King” Review: Heavy is the Head That Wears the Crown

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Netflix’s art house take on Shakespeare’s Henry plays features an all-star cast & a sumptuous production.

Posted on October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Movies

BoJack Horseman Season 6 Review: Once More With Feelings

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The first half of the final season takes the viewer on a quietly optimistic path, before punching them in the gut in the last episode.

Posted on October 21, 2019October 17, 2019 TV

Living With Yourself Review: Twice the Paul Rudd, Half the Insight

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Timothy Greenberg’s leaden, frustrating series is too lackadaisical to explore its clone-centric premise. Living with Yourself is the […]

Posted on October 17, 2019October 17, 2019 TV

Review: “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie” Is a Killer Follow-Up

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Vince Gilligan returns to the fate of Jesse Pinkman in a thrilling, meditative neo-Western epilogue made strictly for Breaking Bad devotees.

Posted on October 11, 2019October 13, 2019 Movies

Fractured Review: Let’s Play Guess The Twist!

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Brad Anderson’s latest thriller suffers from a predictable script.

Posted on October 8, 2019October 8, 2019 Movies

Fantastic Fest: “In The Tall Grass” Is Lost And Going In Circles

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The Vincenzo Natali adaptation of Stephen King’s short story is a repetitive struggle.

Posted on September 24, 2019September 25, 2019 Fantastic Fest 2019FestivalsMovies

The Politician Review: Ryan Murphy Works Overtime For Your Vote

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Ryan Murphy’s first show for Netflix throws everything at the wall, and not all of it sticks.

Posted on September 23, 2019September 22, 2019 TV

Unbelievable Review: A Complicated, Convoluted Search for Truth

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Netflix’s new miniseries illustrates the painful, ugly road to justice after a sexual assault.

Posted on September 2, 2019September 1, 2019 TV

Review: “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” Is a Sprawling High Fantasy Prequel

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The Jim Henson Company makes a stellar return to form in Netflix’s epic, ten-episode prequel to the classic 1982 film.

Posted on August 30, 2019August 29, 2019 TV

Falling Inn Love Review: Love, New Zealand Style

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There’s cheese aplenty in Netflix’s latest rom-com, but its Maori cast and Kiwi setting give it some unexpected charms.

Posted on August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 Movies

American Factory Review: Auto-Economic Asphyxiation

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Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar track the intersection of culture and capitalism in this intriguingly humanistic doc.

Posted on August 21, 2019August 21, 2019 Movies

Mindhunter Season 2 Review: Returning to the Scene of the Crime

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David Fincher’s haunting, revolutionary Netflix show returns for a sophomore glimpse into the dark core of the American soul.

Posted on August 18, 2019August 18, 2019 TV

Issues Are the New Black: “Orange Is the New Black”’s Final Season Doubles Down on Injustice

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In a year of TV series reaching their much-vaunted conclusions, Orange Is the New Black went out with a seventh season filled with drum-banging polemic.

Posted on August 11, 2019August 11, 2019 FeaturesTV

Review: “Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling” Goes Post-Modern

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Netflix brings back the classic Nick cartoon twenty years later for a one-off special filled with heart and surprisingly complicated musings on the passage of time.

Posted on August 9, 2019August 25, 2019 TV

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