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How Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Turns Gaps in History Into Convincing Truth
MONSTER: THE LIZZIE BORDEN STORY turns one of America’s most famous unsolved murders into a remarkably persuasive story about motive, memory and the people we turn into monsters. The problem is that some of its most convincing details never happened.
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PRIMETIME Review: Robert Pattinson’s Chris Hansen Movie Becomes the Thing It Hates
Robert Pattinson commits completely to Primetime, but A24’s surreal Chris Hansen “fever dream” is so determined to condemn sensationalism that it eventually becomes the thing it is criticizing.
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Runner Is a Solid Dad Movie That Squanders Owen Wilson’s Comic Potential
Runner is fast, simple and entertaining from beginning to end, but a strangely restrained Owen Wilson and some uncomfortable real-world baggage keep a perfectly good action movie from becoming something more.
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The Wrecking Crew wrecked my expectations — Bautista and Momoa bring the heart
Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa bring huge action, real chemistry, Native Hawaiian culture, and a surprising amount of heart to The Wrecking Crew, a movie I almost skipped and ended up loving enough to give the Kazoo.
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Ted Lasso Season 4 Isn’t Too Positive — Ted Is Hurting
Ted Lasso Season 4 isn’t really about fixing a women’s football team. It’s about a man who has spent years healing everyone around him finally being forced to confront his own loneliness, anger and fear of being hurt again.
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Kenneth Branagh: From Shakespeare to the Russian Jackie Chan in Mayday
Mayday is exactly my kind of movie: fast, funny and completely committed to having a good time. But the biggest surprise is Kenneth Branagh, who somehow went from Shakespeare to beating the hell out of people like the Russian Jackie Chan
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Netflix Keeps Trying to Murder My Children, and I Keep Pressing Play
I did not set out to spend several nights wondering whether fictional children were about to be murdered. Netflix did that to me.
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Lanterns Broke John Stewart’s Comic Canon. And It Worked.
I spent the last two weeks arguing about whether comic-book adaptations should respect canon. Then Lanterns changed John Stewart’s history, proved exactly why breaking canon can work and, inconveniently for me, started getting really good.
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Coyote vs. Acme Review: Wile E. Coyote Finally Gets His Day in Court
Coyote vs. Acme is exactly the movie Wile E. Coyote deserved: clever, chaotic, surprisingly heartfelt and made by people who clearly understood the assignment.
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MICHAEL Is Beautifully Performed — but It Stops Short of the Harder Questions
MICHAEL is an entertaining, beautifully acted look at Michael Jackson’s rise to superstardom… but by ending before the darkest chapters of his life, it leaves you wondering how much of the real story it actually wants to tell.
