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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.
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…
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.
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…
