1199 Best Film & TV Releases Translated Into Italian
A Real Pain
Similar25th Hour (2002), City Lights (1931), Crash (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Delicatessen (1991), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Life Is Beautiful (1997), Malcolm X (1992), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Apartment (1960), The Holiday (2006), The Last Emperor (1987), The Terminal (2004), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988),
Watch afterDon't Look Up (2021), Dune (2021), Joker (2019), Psycho (1960),
StarringKieran Culkin,
StudioSearchlight Pictures,
Many interpret the magic of the movies as referring to film’s ability to show audiences something they’ve never seen, immersing them in worlds they’ll never visit. But the flip side of it is also true. Sometimes, movies can magically ground viewers in worlds achingly familiar, surrounded by people so recognizable they’d swear they knew them already. That latter “trick” is what A Real Pain pulls off with unfussy ease.
David (Jesse Eisenberg, also pulling writing and directing duties) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) were the kind of cousins who grew up so close that you could confuse them for brothers. Time and responsibility take their toll, though. A family man, David can no longer spend all night running around the City, even as he now calls it home. Benji, on the other hand, has plenty of time but has rooted himself in Binghamton and the basement of his mom’s house. Before the start of the film, their grandmother dies, prompting the duo to finally follow through on the tour of Poland—and visit her childhood home—they had been circling for years.
Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin struggle to see each other clearly. (Searchlight Pictures)
The big headline of early coverage of A Real Pain has been Culkin and rightfully so. Benji is a maddening figure. He speaks empathetically and seems poised to big up everyone around him one moment, the next lashing out, unable to see a situation from anyone’s perspective but his own. His criticisms are often nasty and barbed. Yet he’s quick to dismiss them when the occasional target circles back to say, “That hurt, but you did show me something true.” He’s well-loved but pushes that love to its limits, seemingly just to point and say, “See, you don’t care about me.” It’s a perfectly cooked steak of a role and Culkin relishes it without swimming in the ham river (to mix meat metaphors). Continue Reading →
We Live in Time (In Italian: We Live in Time - Tutto il tempo che abbiamo)
Similar50 First Dates (2004), 9 Songs (2004), A History of Violence (2005), Amélie (2001), Annie Hall (1977), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Back to the Future (1985),
Ben-Hur (1959) Blended (2014),
Boys Don't Cry (1999) Braveheart (1995), City Lights (1931), Crash (1996), Cruel Intentions (1999), Dirty Dancing (1987), Do the Right Thing (1989), East of Eden (1955), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),
Manhattan (1979) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Open Hearts (2002), Pearl Harbor (2001),
Rebecca (1940) Stand by Me (1986), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), The Piano Teacher (2001), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Walk the Line (2005), When Harry Met Sally... (1989),
Watch afterInception (2010),
StudioFilm4 Productions, StudioCanal,
Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) have the kind of meet-cute that hits with a bang, forgive the pun. A rising chef and a techie for Weetabix, respectively, they meet when she strikes him with her car. Unaware that the reason Tobias was in the road was running to get a pen to finally sign his divorce papers, Altmut buys him dinner at a kind of Americana diner cousin to the one where All of Us Strangers set its glorious heart-ripper of a climax and then invites him and his wife to dinner at her much ritzier restaurant--as a two-part act of penance.
He takes her up on the invitation. Solo. In short order, they get to connecting. Despite the guilt and the neck brace, they hit it off. There’s a spark, one they run with once it becomes clear that despite being unready to shed his wedding band, Tobias is single.
That’s how We Live in Time starts, but it’s not where it starts. No, director John Crowley (Brooklyn) opens years into Almut and Tobias’ partnership. Instead of meeting Almut committing an act of near vehicular homicide, the audience first encounters her blending pleasure (a morning run) and business (gathering wild ingredients for a parfait recipe she’s been experimenting with). Pugh makes a strong first impression. She’s someone who stops to smell the flowers both for joy and utility. More importantly, she's found a balance between the two that brings happiness. Continue Reading →
Before
SimilarAh! My Goddess, American Gothic, American Horror Story, Band of Brothers, Beach Girls, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Catch-22, Dante's Cove,
Dexter East of Eden, Fosse/Verdon, G.B.H., Homeland, Land of Tanabata, Lovecraft Country, Melissa, Ms Ma, Nemesis, Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder, Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, Spirits, Supernatural, Sweetpea, The Agatha Christie Hour,
The Bourne Identity The Couple Next Door, The Day of the Triffids, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Minions of Midas,
The Shining The Tyrant, The Whirlwind, The White Queen, Three Women, Ultraviolet,
StudioParamount Television Studios,
Like a good cop, Eli (Billy Crystal) is sure at the start of Before that if he solves this one last case, he can retire happily. The difference is Eli is a psychiatrist, not a cop. And the case isn’t some unsolved murder or wild heist. It’s a little boy, Noah (Jacobi Jupe). Noah is a child in the foster system living with Denise (Rosie Perez). He has selective mutism. When Noah speaks, he occasionally does so in a no longer used Dutch dialect. He experiences visual and auditory hallucinations that often lead to violent outbursts. He also seems to know Eli somehow and, more disconcertingly, Eli’s recently deceased wife, Lynn (Judith Light).
The more Eli connects to the case, the worse it seems to get for both doctor and client. Before long, the audience, and indeed the doctor himself, must contemplate the limits of science and medicine. Is Noah mentally ill, or is there some strange and potentially dangerous supernatural force exerting a hold on him?
While the concept of “mental illness or supernatural intervention” came into vogue with The Exorcist(if not sooner), the rather risible idea experienced a kind of zenith in the late 90s and early 2000s. The most common form was an aging but still bankable male star (Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, to name a couple) as a psychologist, psychiatrist, or social worker—Hollywood frequently doesn’t know the difference—working with a young actress poised for stardom (Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning) in films with fairly generic names (Don’t Say a Word, Hide and Seek). There were other variations on theme, mixing gender, age, occupation, and so on. But at their core was the same driving question: is all this wild stuff the audience seeing caused by an evil otherworldly entity or the unfortunate result of an untreated or treated improperly mental illness? Before belongs to this “proud” tradition. Continue Reading →
Woman of the Hour
SimilarAlmost Famous (2000), An Education (2009), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Angel (1984), Antonia's Line (1995), Apollo 13 (1995), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Bed and Board (1970), Billy Elliot (2000),
Boys Don't Cry (1999) Braveheart (1995), Breakfast on Pluto (2005), Call Jane (2022), Chinatown (1974), Con Air (1997), Dead Poets Society (1989), Denial (2016), Donnie Brasco (1997), Everything Went Fine (2021), Fat Girl (2001), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Frenzy (1972), Gandhi (1982), Gridiron Gang (2006), Hacker (2016), Inland Empire (2006), Italian for Beginners (2000), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Lost and Delirious (2001),
Lost in Translation (2003) Manhattan (1979) My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), My Life Without Me (2003), Open Hearts (2002), Orlando (1992), Predator (1987), Rogue Trader (1999), Se7en (1995), Talk to Her (2002), The Beguiled (2017), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), The Devil's Rejects (2005), The Elephant Man (1980), The Experiment (2001), The Fog (2005), The Irishman (2019), The Last Emperor (1987), The Piano (1993), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Volver (2006), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), Wuthering Heights (2011),
Watch afterDune: Part Two (2024),
StarringTony Hale,
If you’ve ever encountered those “normal looking photos with a scary backstory” posts on social media or are interested in odd true crime stories, chances are good you’re familiar with the plot of Woman of the Hour. In broad strokes, Cheryl Bradshaw (Anna Kendrick, also in the director’s chair) is a down-on-her-luck actor. To pay the rent, she takes a gig on one of those 70s “One Single, Three Suitors” dating shows. Among her three options, Rodney Alcala (Daniel Zovatto) distinguishes himself as neither a self-entitled horndog nor a too-anxious-to-function empty suit. Rodney is also, it turns out, a prolific serial killer. It sounds like the setup for a suitably sorted erotic thriller. Perhaps, in other hands, it would be just that.
However, Kendrick’s direction and Ian McDonald’s script center Alcala’s targets, not the “isn’t this wild?” aspect. In their hands, Woman of the Hour becomes commentary on the dangers these women (and too many others) faced, fought, and sadly, sometimes succumbed to. While firmly centered in the late 70s, it doesn’t take much of a squint to find the antecedents of modern issues of sexism, control, and gendered violence.
Tony Hale, Anna Kendrick, Matt Visser, Jedidiah Goodacre, and Daniel Zovatto play get to know you games. All with a killer in their midst. (Leah Gallo/Netflix)
The best section unfolds during the latter half of Bradshaw’s dating game appearance. Inspired by a makeup artist, she ditches the questions prepared for her by the show’s producers and ignores “benign” sexist host Ed Burke’s (Tony Hale, playing Jim Lange in all but name) passive-aggressive attempts to pull her back on message. Instead, she begins to pepper the guests with queries that quickly expose their misogyny and lack of intelligence. Only Alcala rises to the occasion, using his engrained sociopathy to present as the kind of “modern” man Bradshaw wants. Continue Reading →
Shrinking
Created byBill Lawrence,
StarringBrett Goldstein,
Shrinking Season 2 picks up a bit down the road from where Season 1 ended in time, but it immediately reconnects with its final moments. That is when Jimmy’s (Jason Segel) client Grace (Heidi Gardner) took his guidance a bit too much to heart and violently interrupted the negative patterns in her communication with her husband. Speaking of picking up right where things left off, when I last reviewed the show? I was almost certainly a bit too harsh.
Overall I recommended the series. Still, I spent much of the review vocalizing about the ways it didn’t get mental health concerns or therapy right. It can be hard to review something that revolves around your job. That’s why so many podcasters reviewing Nobody Wants This spend a considerable portion of their reviews talking about how unrealistic the show’s depiction of podcasting is. (That show’s depiction of Judaism is another matter, one I should’ve been a little more on top of, perhaps. But that’s a discussion for another day.) As I had just stopped being a therapist—perhaps for good—to write full-time, I think I was especially activated by the show’s rather…flippant depiction of the field.
Jessica Williams and Christa Miller spend time in the most chaotic, best appointed therapist office ever. (AppleTV+)
In Shrinking Season 2, several consequences of Jimmy’s “psychological vigilantism” come home to roost, not just with Grace. That helps refine my perspective. Additionally, with distance, the depiction of Jimmy’s rock bottom, briefly glimpsed at the beginning of Season 1, feels more honest. For once, it seems as though “tell, not show” was the better avenue to capturing his downward spiral of addiction, self-hatred, parental abdication, and general interpersonal awfulness. Continue Reading →
Caddo Lake
NetworkMax,
Similar9 Songs (2004), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), Back to the Future (1985),
Back to the Future Part II (1989) Death Proof (2007), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Donnie Darko (2001), Edward Scissorhands (1990), It's a Wonderful Life (1946),
Jackie Brown (1997) La Jetée (1962), Minority Report (2002), Mulholland Drive (2001), Next (2007), No Good Deed (2002), Planet of the Apes (1968), Silent Hill (2006), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), The 6th Day (2000), The Butterfly Effect (2004), The Shining (1980), The Terminator (1984), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Thelma & Louise (1991), Titanic (1997), Twelve Monkeys (1995), War of the Worlds (2005),
Watch afterAnatomy of a Fall (2023), Dune: Part Two (2024), Past Lives (2023),
StudioNew Line Cinema,
Life and death in Caddo Lake are hard. Paris (Dylan O’Brien) lost his mom to a car accident that nearly took his life as well. While he never says it outright, his survivor’s guilt is written all over his face and in his body language. Paris is trying to make a go of reconnecting with those he’s stayed away from for years, but it’s a struggle. Former love (Diana Hopper) has the best luck with him but it is still halting and awkward. The alienation grows when he finds a necklace like his mom used to wear. To make matters worse, he discovered it in an area of the swampland where things seemingly go haywire. The world seems to go mute, wolves--not indigenous to the area--appear, and electronics cease to work.
Elsewhere on Caddo Lake, Ellie (Eliza Scanlen) has her own parental problems. Her father went missing when she was very young, a tragedy that has driven a wedge between her mom (Lauren Ambrose) and her deeply empathetic stepfather, Daniel (Eric Lange). She can’t stop reminding either of them how he—and the rest of his family—aren’t her family, even as they clearly want to embrace her. The only exception to her ire is her younger sister, Anna (Caroline Falk). Unfortunately, one night, Anna goes missing, too, presumably after she snuck off to find Ellie and her friends. She may have wandered into the same bit of swamp that Paris found so otherworldly.
Caddo Lake has a complex science-fiction engine driving it. However, writers-directors Logan George & Celine Held don’t seem especially interested in digging deep into it. Instead, they leave many questions about it only tangentially touched upon. The queries are left open-ended in a way that feels right for the story, not a dodge or a disappointment. Continue Reading →
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Similar23:23, A Boss and a Babe, A Spy Among Friends, A Touch of Frost, A2Z,
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Wycliffe YATAGARASU: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master, Youth, ZERO -The Bravest Money Game-, Каменская - 3,
StudioApple Studios,
If you’ve seen or read enough stories about vengeance, chances are good you’ve encountered the saying, “He who seeks revenge digs two graves,” or some variation. Likely misattributed to Confucius, its meaning nonetheless carries weight. The new drama Disclaimer wrestles with the adage far more seriously than most other takes on the act of seeking catharsis through reprisal.
Teacher Stephen Brigstocke (Kevin Kline) has just finished self-destructively barreling into his own firing, quite the fall for a former Teacher of the Year. He’s alone, a widower, his wife Nancy (Lesley Manville) dead after a protracted time with cancer. However, in many ways, he’s been alone since their son Jonathan (Louis Partridge) died about two decades earlier. That’s when his wife began to pull away from him and didn’t stop until her death.
With his newfound time, he begins to clean out the closets and wardrobes left unused since her passing. Among the debris, he discovers a series of objects that lead to a manuscript. In its pages, Nancy lays out their son’s final days in Italy. More importantly, she places the blame for his death firmly at the feet of Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate Blanchett). Catherine is now a highly successful documentary filmmaker married to financier Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) with an adult son, Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Continue Reading →
It's What's Inside
Similar2 Days in Paris (2007), 48 Hrs. (1982), Bad Company (2002), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Bring It On (2000), Catch and Release (2006), Chocolat (2000), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Forrest Gump (1994), Ghostbusters (1984), Look Who's Talking (1989), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Madagascar (2005), Meet the Robinsons (2007), Men in Black II (2002), O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Short Cuts (1993), Stalker (1979), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), The Fifth Element (1997), Trading Places (1983),
Watch afterParasite (2019),
In description, It’s What’s Inside reads like a cousin to two great recent films. First, there's the “friends get together for a reunion and it goes very wrong” Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. Then, there the “through a devilishly simple device, people tap into something they rapidly lose control of” Talk to Me. If you have a longer memory, Flatliners may even come mind. It fails to achieve the heights of any of those movies. Nonetheless, writer-director Greg Jardin’s first feature effort boasts an intriguing premise and enough visual flair to make it worth a watch.
On the night before Reuben’s (Devon Terrell) wedding, the soon-to-be groom brings together his old college running crew. Most important among them (for the film) are Cyrus (James Morosini) and Shelby (Brittany O’Grady). They've been together so long their friends repeatedly assume they're married. They are not and there's no nuptials on the horizon. Additionally, they’re the kind of couple in their 20s that says things like, “I thought we agreed we’d save our sexual energy for each other.” while trying to jumpstart their largely dormant sex life with wigs and nodding towards roleplaying as their friends.
David Thompson wants to know if you'd like to try this new competitive card game. (Netflix)
Surprising everyone, Forbes (David Thompson) is also on the guest list. Even more unexpected is that he shows up. He hasn’t been seen or heard from since he got kicked out of college for an incident involving trust fund lothario Dennis (Gavin Leatherwood) and Forbes’ underage sister Beatrice (Madison Davenport). Hilariously, none of the other friends seem to know what exactly happened or why Forbes got kicked out, despite them all being present for the events and at least a couple of them later giving testimony to the administration afterward. Continue Reading →
Nobody Wants This
SimilarA2Z, Ah! My Goddess, American Dad!, As Beautiful As You, Black Raven, Choice Husband, Cupid's Command, Dating in the Kitchen, Eclipse of the Heart, Elas por Elas, Familiar Wife, Idol Fever, Kamichu!, Love Alert, Love Revolution, Mission: Yozakura Family, Moonlighting, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Obsession, Phineas and Ferb, Psych, Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, Stand Up!!, The Fox's Summer, The Smile Has Left Your Eyes, The Wallflower, Time and Him are Just Right, Valvrave the Liberator, Wise Man's Grandchild, Youth,
StarringJustine Lupe,
Studio20th Television, 3 Arts Entertainment,
The pleasures of the romantic comedy are well-documented. When they work, they make for the best kind of fantasy. The ones where our all too numerous flaws may stall but never derail us. Of course, their failures are similarly well documented, making the ups and downs of lust and love feel like products. Moving the genre from its typical medium—film—to television with the new series Nobody Wants This carries the threat to magnify those shortcomings until they blot out anything else. And then there’s that title. Oof. If ever there was a juicy fastball down the middle for critics looking for an easy headline dunk, it’s that one.
It’s more than a relief then to find that blowing out rom-com tropes from an under two-hour film to a 10-episode season helps, not harms, the storytelling. Nobody Wants This isn’t doing anything revolutionary, but it plays the hits well. It makes a thing you’ve seen a hundred permutations of feel fresh and lively. Sorry, lovers of ironically mean-spirited headlines.
The story is a tale of mismatched lovers. Joanne (Kristen Bell) cohosts a podcast with her sister Morgan (Justine Lupe) dedicated to their love life’s successes and failures—mostly failures. Her producer Ashley (Sherry Cola) has her over for a small gathering, warning Joanne there’s a rabbi in the house. Joanne jokes with another guest, Noah (Adam Brody), about it, their chemistry immediate. When Noah blesses dinner, Joanne realizes her error. Continue Reading →
The Wild Robot (In Italian: Il robot selvaggio)
SimilarA.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Akira (1988), Back to the Future (1985),
Back to the Future Part II (1989) Back to the Future Part III (1990) Bridge to Terabithia (2007), Charlotte's Web (2006), Contact (1997), I Robot (2004),
Mary Poppins (1964) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Men in Black II (2002), Metropolis (1927), Night at the Museum (2006), Planet of the Apes (1968), Ronia the Robber's Daughter (1984), Short Circuit 2 (1988), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), The Cabbage Soup (1981), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), WALL·E (2008),
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Watch afterAvatar (2009), Interstellar (2014), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), WALL·E (2008),
StarringDee Bradley Baker, Pedro Pascal,
A word of warning: this is a slightly different kind of review. I took my son, a massive fan of The Wild Robot book series, to see an advance screening of the film with me. So, there will be a paragraph with his reaction to include a 10-year-old kid’s perspective on this family feature. The rating and rest of the text are mine, though. Sorry, you have to deal with my usual nonsense to get the real opinion that matters.
Sometime in the future, a robot awakens on a beach. “She’s” surrounded by broken crates and other debris makes it clear that this was not an intended destination. Programmed to be of service, she attempts to get any of the island’s denizens, all animals, to give her a task. Even after an intense software update gives her the ability to understand and speak the language of the animals, none of them will give her something to do.
Soon, though, an accident provides the task. After falling down a hill, thanks to the animals’ cruelty, the robot crushes all but one goose egg in a nest. Unaware of what the eggs are or the process of imprinting, she unintentionally is in the right place, at the right time, to become the newly hatched gosling’s defacto mother. Now she has a task, one that she has no programming for and only the vaguest idea of what to do. Like all new moms. Or parents, for that matter. Continue Reading →
Wolfs (In Italian: Wolfs - Lupi solitari)
SimilarAt Close Range (1986), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Blow-Up (1966), Blue Velvet (1986), Crank (2006), Death Proof (2007), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Dune (1984), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Go (1999), Irreversible (2002),
Jackie Brown (1997) Léon: The Professional (1994), Logan (2017), Minority Report (2002), Mulholland Drive (2001), Nowhere (1997), Party Monster (2003), Payback (1999), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006),
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Watch afterA Quiet Place (2018), Dune: Part Two (2024), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), Interstellar (2014), Joker (2019), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), Parasite (2019), Prey (2022), The Batman (2022), The Zone of Interest (2023), Wrath of Man (2021),
StudioApple Studios,
Some movies are just good enough. And that’s ok. There’s something to be said for a little better than mediocre film animated by star power. Wolfs is such a picture.
At the start, the film feels serious. A tough-on-crime District Attorney (Amy Ryan) takes a much younger man (Austin Abrams) upstairs at an expensive hotel for a furtive romantic enough. Unfortunately, secret fun turns to tragedy when the Kid falls off the bed and into a glass bar cart, seemingly dying. In desperation, she reaches out to a cleaner (George Clooney). As he drives to her, writer-director Jon Watts and cinematographer Larkin Seiple give the scene an almost Michael Mann quality. Well, Mann with less interesting lighting and a firmly adult contemporary soundtrack.
When Brad Pitt shows up as the hotel’s designated fixer, however, that serious to admittedly self-serious tone goes away. In its place, the film embraces a sort of low-level Odd Couple grumbling comedy. The dueling cleaners try to assert their superiority over each other, all while trying to hide their signs of aging from each other. To Wolfs’ credit, they don’t go to the well of bad backs, eroding vision, and barely contained yawns too often. On the other hand, when they do, the gags land with a smile or, at most, a gentle chuckle. If you were planning to watch the movie for a few hearty guffaws, you’d do well to look elsewhere. Continue Reading →
Agatha All Along
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The Sarah Jane Adventures The Tyrant, The Venture Bros., Through the Darkness, ThunderCats, Till The End of The Moon,
Torchwood V Wars, Wild Palms, Wonder Woman, X-Men, X-Men '97, X-Men: Evolution,
The difficulty in reviewing television is, often, critics only receive a fraction of the season’s episodes. As a result, one sometimes has to offer a full review on a partial product. Frequently, that’s fine. Shows often tell you who they are, if you will, fairly early on. A character or a twist that changes things might show up in an episode down the road. Even then, though, such things often don’t change the bedrock quality of the endeavor. Sharing all of this is by way of a disclaimer because, after the first two episodes of Agatha All Along, it remains unclear what kind of show it will be.
Some aspects of the tone are clear from the start. It’s obviously playing with a healthy dose of irreverence. It’s clever. Kathryn Hahn slips back into Agnes/Agatha Harkness like a second skin, quickly giving her depth without erasing the villainousness of her turn in WandaVision. The supporting characters, including Teen (Joe Locke), Jennifer Kale (Sasheer Zamata), and Lilia Calderu (Patti LuPone?!), can hold the screen despite Hahn’s charisma bombardment. Aubrey Plaza’s Rio Vidal even gives Agatha a run for her money in the charm department with a frighteningly sexual/sexually frightening turn. She carries the conclusion of episode 1 with three or four sentences that are…very intense.
Debra Jo Rupp, Ali Ahn, Patti LuPone, and Sasheer Zamata support women's rights and women's wrongs. (Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Television)
But is the show a drama? A comedy? A horror-drama? Horror-comedy? Horror-dramedy? One’s guess is as good as another. Episode 1, “Seekest Thou the Road,” is almost entirely a parody/homage episode, taking WandaVision’s sitcom-trappings storytelling approach and applying it to the crime-thriller limited series genre, specifically Mare of Easttown with a dollop of The Killing thrown in via the opening credits. It’s an interesting idea, a nod to the Agatha All Along’s parent series with a parallel storytelling technique. More importantly, it gives the series room enough to be more than just a reinvention of the wheel. And the show seemingly ditches it by the episode’s end. Continue Reading →
The Substance
Similar9 Songs (2004), A Clockwork Orange (1971), A History of Violence (2005), A Trip to the Moon (1902), After We Fell (2021), Airport 1975 (1974), Aliens (1986), Almost Famous (2000), An Education (2009), Being There (1979),
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Jackie Brown (1997) Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Lost and Delirious (2001),
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Watch afterPast Lives (2023),
Fight Club is still one of the peak cinematic explorations of toxic masculinity. Now, we may finally have a true female equivalent in The Substance.
Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is a former Oscar darling whose career has stalled out, stranding her in a Jane Fonda-esque workout show. When she overhears her producer demanding they replace her with someone younger and hotter, she’s desperate to do whatever it takes to stay in the limelight. Enter The Substance.
She’s handed a mysterious ad that promises to create a better version of herself — literally. In this case, her alter ego is the sexy, youthful Sue (Margaret Qualley). It’s not long before Sue and Elisabeth begin fighting to the death for the right to exist. Continue Reading →
HPI : Haut Potentiel Intellectuel
SimilarAlice, Black Scorpion, Cold Case, Columbo, Crescent Moon,
Dexter Elas por Elas, Kate & Allie, L.A. Heat, Millennium, Monk, New Amsterdam, Noah's Arc, Psych, Six Feet Under, The Crimson Rivers, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Undoing,
Wycliffe StudioABC Signature,
Back in the aughts and early teens, television discovered a kind of alchemy. Take a murder. First, assign some good but overly serious cops to it. Then, team them up with an unusual consultant. Voila! TV magic. In no time, the subgenre spread like wildfire over network and basic cable. Anyone could be a quirky consultant, including a former cop overwhelmed by mental illness (Monk), a mystery writer (Castle), a fake psychic (The Mentalist, Psych), mathematicians (Numb3rs), and time-traveling revolutionary war soldiers (Sleepy Hollow). Sure, they weren’t high art, but they frequently provided a great time in front of your big screen. High Potential, the American remake of a French series, delightfully transports audiences back to that breezy era.
Developed by Drew Goddard, the series revolves around Morgan (Kaitlin Olson). A single mom of three, she struggles with interpersonal and professional relationships. The cause, in part, is her off-the-charts IQ, which gives her insomnia, an intolerance for authority, and difficulty dealing with anything that isn’t “right.” Those same features lead her to rework an evidence board at the Los Angeles police precinct where she’s working her latest gig as a cleaning lady. When head detective Selena (Judy Reyes) traces the changes back to Morgan, she offers her a job, much to the frustration of Detective Karadec (Daniel Sunjata), Major Crime’s go-to investigator.
Judy Reyes and Daniel Sunjata enjoy that classic morning pairing. Coffee and crime scene photos. (Disney/David Bukach)
Javicia Leslie and Deniz Akdeniz, and Garret Dillahunt round the police side of the cast as two younger and more welcoming members of Major Crimes and a gambling-addicted head of Robbery/Homicide, respectively. At home, Taran Killam plays Ludo, Morgan’s most recent ex and father to her two youngest children including Matthew Lamb as Elliot, inheritor of Morgan’s IQ and love of random facts, but not yet her attitude. Her oldest daughter, Ava (Amirah J), seems more like her father, who disappeared when Ava was still in diapers. She believes he abandoned the family, while Morgan insists he’d never. Continue Reading →
Uglies
Similar1984 (1956), A Clockwork Orange (1971), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Akira (1988), Alien (1979), Alien Resurrection (1997), Alien³ (1992), Allegiant (2016), Almost Famous (2000),
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Strange Days (1995) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), The City of Lost Children (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), The Island (2005), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), The Terminator (1984), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Twelve Monkeys (1995), V for Vendetta (2006), Videodrome (1983), WALL·E (2008), War of the Worlds (2005),
In the future of Uglies, adapted from the YA series by Scott Westerfeld, humanity has survived death by its own hands. First, a vaguely defined but elite corps of scientists developed a new, apparently infinitely renewable energy source. That cured us of our dependence on fossil fuels. (Sidenote: it’s hilarious that the only way people can quit fossil fuels is by developing something else to consume instead of, you know, wind, water, or solar power.)
However, humanity’s natural tendency towards tribalism continued to raise its ugly head. The solution there? Get rid of the ugly! A procedure, done on sixteen-year-olds, eliminates all imperfections, physical and psychological. That means, on the eve of your 16th birthday, maybe you are a kid with an overbite and a burgeoning anxiety disorder. After your birthday day “surgery” though? Your jaws align perfectly and your heart rate stops spiking out of nowhere. Yes, even when you think about that time you said something dumb at that party. Oh, and your eyes are gold now, too. For funsies.
One sure sign Laverne Cox is evil? White after Labor Day. That's just madness. (Brian Douglas/Netflix)
On first blush, Uglies is a hodgepodge of dystopian fiction, especially of teen variety, remixed and reheated in a new mediocre shell. Pick your favorites of the genre and chances are this film will include at least one moment of “homage” to it. Enjoy a restriction on literature like found in Fahrenheit 451 or 2002’s “better than the Matrix” (real ones will get it) Equilibrium but want it to only ever so slightly mentioned? Uglies has you. Garish displays of beauty as a sign of elitism as in the Hunger Games? Check! A sort of return to the land, noble savage theme ala Brave New World? Got it. A have-and-have-nots society based on perceived genetic superiority akin to Gattaca? Of course. Better living through the elimination of pesky emotions? Well, you get the idea. Uglies has them all in the least thoughtful, most set-dressing way. Continue Reading →
Rebel Ridge
SimilarA History of Violence (2005), All the King's Men (2006), Angel (1984), Blue Velvet (1986),
Boys Don't Cry (1999) Cape Fear (1991), City of God (2002), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Do the Right Thing (1989), East of Eden (1955), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Fargo (1996), In Her Shoes (2005), Insomnia (2002), It's a Wonderful Life (1946),
Jackie Brown (1997) Jezebel (1938), Kinky Boots (2005), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Lolita (1962), Minority Report (2002), Out of the Past (1947), Party Monster (2003), Payback (1999), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), Stand by Me (1986), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Sugar & Spice (2001), The Fog (2005), The Hustler (1961), The Shining (1980), The Usual Suspects (1995), There Will Be Blood (2007), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Walking Tall (1973), We Own the Night (2007),
Watch afterAvatar (2009), Gran Turismo (2023), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014),
Jeremy Saulnier’s films, even his darkly comedic debut Murder Party, are shot through with a resigned skepticism about violence. The characters who willingly pursue it as a solution, even a protagonist like Blue Ruin’s Dwight (Macon Blair), suffer for it. However, those who try to resist, from Murder Party’s Christopher (Chris Sharp) or the band members in Green Room, find they have no choice but to wield it. Even then, that inevitability rarely brings relief or catharsis. Violence might get them out of a dangerous situation or safely back home, but it leaves psychological scars. Rebel Ridge continues this tradition.
Not that Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre) doesn’t have plenty of good reasons to embrace violence. Within moments of arriving in a small town, he’s knocked off his bike by a cop car driven by Officers Marston (David Denman) and Lann (Emory Cohen). They’re white, he’s not. It’s easy to jump to conclusions about what’s about to happen. Despite their obvious racist stereotyping of him, however, they ultimately let him go. Unfortunately, before they do so, they strip him of the money he was carrying to bail his cousin Mike (C.J. LeBlanc) out of lock-up on a low-level drug charge.
It’s a very real process called civil asset forfeiture, which gives law officers tremendous power to seize money and assets from anyone they suspect of being involved in the drug trade. Worse, those who find their assets seized have little recourse. This town’s police chief, Sandy Burnne (Don Johnson), has happily taken advantage of it to make up for what he considers unfair restrictions to his budget. It’s police corruption at its most resilient. Continue Reading →
The Perfect Couple
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Pachinko, Paul T. Goldman, Perry Mason, Place of Execution,
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Pride and Prejudice Prime Suspect, Quatermass II, Queer as Folk, Rage of Angels, Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, Reacher,
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Scully Shadow and Bone,
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Watching The Perfect Couple, Jenna Lamia’s slick adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s 2018 novel for Netflix, two thoughts immediately bubble up.
The first isn’t the fault of the show’s quality so much as its timing. That thought is, “maybe we should give a break to all these shows and movies about rich folk in great locales doing crime”. In less than a year, I have reviewed shows with that plot taking place in a planned bunker in the tundra, on an ultra-expensive cruise ship, a rich enclave in West Palm Beach, and, now, an estate in a seaside New England town. Other recent entries include The Glass Onion, The Menu, and one could even mount an argument for Only Murderers in the Building. A lot of these are good. Some are great. But perhaps we could spread the ensemble crime-mystery wealth (haHA) a bit? Maybe a murder mystery set at a State Fair?
Meghann Fahy's got those beach-y waves everybody wants. (Netflix)
Granted, this is a bit unfair. The Perfect Couple comes from a novel. Hilderbrand set the novel in Nantucket, where she lived, so she was writing about the kind of climate outside her window. That all makes sense. However, it’s difficult not to see so much media where affluence is part of the scenery and not get a little tired of it. Especially when the series feel like they’re acting as a catalog as much, if not more, than critique. Continue Reading →
KAOS
SimilarErgo Proxy, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Saint Seiya: Saintia Sho, Space Sentinels, Young Hercules,
About 25 years ago, comics fell in love with a storytelling device called decompression. At its best, it expanded what typically would be short stories to several issues long to better explore emotional beats and psychological motives and give the occasional joke room to breathe. For instance, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko told the origin of Spider-Man in 11 pages. Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley retold an updated version of the origin in ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN in more than 130 pages spread over six installments.
Over time, however, the technique became a source of frustration for many. Too often, readers would find themselves wielding through a multi-issue arc only to discover it was more a prelude of things to come than its own story. These exercises in attention maintenance weren’t without their charms, but even the highest of charms grow tired with repetition. Netflix’s Kaos, from Charlie Covell, creator of the excellent teen road trip series The End of the F***ing World, sadly feels a lot like those infuriatingly decompressed comics of the early 2000s. Which is to say, there’s plenty to enjoy in the eight episodes, but by the time credits roll on the season, there’s a distinct lack of satisfaction.
Stephen Dillane has a good stretch and a yawn. (Netflix)
To tackle the positives first, Covell and co-writer Georgia Christou’s chop-and-screw approach to adapting Greek mythology makes good use of the material without being chained to the centuries-old tales. For example, recasting Persephone (Rakie Ayola) as Hades’ (David Thewlis) willing partner gives the audience a unique take on the duo, reveals how myth works even in a world where the gods are demonstrably real, and adds a layer of wickedness to Hera who seems to oversee holy PR, for lack of a better way to put it. Continue Reading →
Slow Horses
Similar3 Body Problem A Hero of Our Time, A Shop for Killers, A Touch of Frost, A2Z,
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Black Books Black Narcissus, Black Out, Blackwater,
Bodies Brass Dreams, Brimstone, Buang Ruk Satan, Catch-22, Chains of Heart, Choice Husband, Chuck, Cupid's Command, Cutie Pie, Dangerous Liaisons, Dash & Lily, Dating in the Kitchen, Detective Forst,
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Fallen Fatherhood,
Fearless First Kill, Five Days at Memorial,
Game of Thrones Game, Set, and Match, George & Tammy,
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Wycliffe YATAGARASU: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master, Youth,
Watch afterSlow Horses,
Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), River Cartwright (Jack Lowden), and the rest of the Slough House reprobates are back for Slow Horses Season 4, and things are, unsurprisingly, not good. While a bombing in a bustling London shopping center consumes most of Britain’s intelligence community, River’s grandfather, David (Jonathan Pryce), has wandered into a very different sort of fight. His memory and cognitive skills are unraveling, triggering, among other problems, a rapid increase in his paranoia. One night, someone close to him drops in for a visit, and moments later, David guns down the visitor. But is everything what it seems?
Questions of what family members owe one another take center stage as David’s confused and deadly actions expose the previously largely unexplored complexity of the Cartwright family. As one member of Slough House runs to France to investigate a single errant clue, the rest of the team is left behind to protect David from Emma Flyte (Ruth Bradley), the new head of MI5’s “dogs”. While seemingly far less corrupt than her predecessors, she’s just as disinterested in tolerating the Horses’ nonsense or willing to trust their pleas for more time.
Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Christopher Chung, Tom Brooke, Kadiff Kirwan, and Rosalind Eleazar are all here. You got a problem with that? (AppleTV+)
Coming at the Horses from the other side is a seemingly unstoppable black-ops mercenary (Tom Wozniczka) trying to clean up the loose ends of…something. David might have once been able to fill in the blanks, but with dementia steadily robbing him of his past and his present consumed with guilt and trauma, he can’t conjure any explanations. As he stalks the members of Slough House, Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) tries to push the new First Chair, the hesitant and PR-focused Claude Whelan (James Callis), to bury anything and everything having to do with the bombing and its apparent perpetrator. Continue Reading →
Bad Monkey
Created byBill Lawrence,
Similar'Cause You're My Boy, 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, A Boss and a Babe, A Certain Scientific Railgun, A Nearly Normal Family, A Shop for Killers, A Touch of Frost, About a Boy,
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Dexter Die Galerie der großen Detektive, Dopesick, Fatherhood,
Fearless Glitch, Guardian, Hogfather, Homicide: Life on the Street, I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss, If Tomorrow Comes, Informa, Inspector Morse, Interior Chinatown, Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-, Kamenskaya, Kamenskaya - 5, Kamenskaya - 6, Kidnapped, Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow, L.A. Heat, La Mante, Liar, Lies Hidden in My Garden, Logically Impossible! Detective Ryoko Kamizuru Is on the Case, Love Alert, Love By Chance, Luther,
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Wycliffe Youth, Каменская - 3,
Before things go too far, it’s important to offer this disclaimer. Bad Monkey’s monkey isn’t especially naughty. Or even all that present. So people with particular opinions on animal performers, now you know. Proceed accordingly.
For everyone else, Bad Monkey isn’t bad. In fact, it’s largely quite good.
The series grabs your attention with an opener that accurately captures the tone of the ten episodes to come. An arrogant, nouveau riche-coded husband on honeymoon reels in a big one. Only problem is it turns out not to be a fish. Instead, a severed arm, seemingly flipping off the world, hangs off the hook. His new bride screams inconsolably as a deckhand snaps a pic of the man with his catch. On the deck above, the rent-a-captain dryly mumbles to himself about the business of making dreams come true. It is loud, over the top, funny, and a bit horrifying when you stop to think about it. Continue Reading →
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
SimilarAgatha All Along, Archie's Weird Mysteries, Armor Shop for Ladies & Gentlemen, Arrow, Ashes to Ashes, Batman, Batman: The Animated Series, Birds of Prey, Black Scorpion, Captain Midnight, Captain Star, Constantine: City of Demons, Creature Commandos, D.P., Daybreak, DC's Stargirl, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes,
Flash Gordon Invincible, Japanese Spiderman,
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After several attempts at relaunches and reimaginings, last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem finally hit on a formula that justified bringing those heroes on the half-shell back yet again. Ditching the cluttered live-action CGI of Platinum Dunes’ previous Turtles’ films in favor of a fresh and fluid animation style, the film shifted focus from “ninja” to “teenage.” The green guys could still fight—and did—but the story was more interested in the adolescent longing for peer connection. Add a propulsive soundtrack and a real sense of place, and they got a refreshing delight. It only makes sense that Paramount would want to move the approach from the big screen to the little one with Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Unfortunately, budgets are a thing. Moving to 12 episodes (the first six provided for critics) on streaming means fewer dollars and further to stretch them. Thus, while Leonardo (Nicolas Cantu), Donatello (Micah Abbey), Michelangelo (Shamon Brown Jr.), Raphael (Brady Noon), and April (Ayo Edebiri) return with their original voices, several are either changed or don’t return at all. For instance, Jackie Chan no longer voices Splinter. His replacement, James Sie, communicates only in a gibberish language called “vermin”. To be fair, it is a fun/funny solution to the usual “different guy trying for the same voice for the cartoon series” problem.
Robot 02 would just like a little hug. Honest. (Paramount+)
The other mutants—the antagonists turned protagonists of the film—simply don’t appear. That’s not especially surprising. It’s hard to imagine getting the likes of Paul Rudd, Giancarlo Esposito, Post Malone, and Seth Rogen to ALL commit to a 12-episode order and have any money left over. That said, Rose Byrne contributes a brief but amusing cameo as Leatherhead. There is a chance the rest, or some portion, might return in the back half of the season. Regardless, their prominence ranges from significantly curtailed to entirely eliminated. Continue Reading →