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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…
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,…
The Paper Season 2 Review: It’s Finding Its Own Voice — Not The Office’s
The Paper still has a long way to go before its characters feel like old friends, but Season 2 is getting funnier, weirder and…
Carrie Was Already Built to Go Viral. Mike Flanagan Just Gave Her the Internet.
Everybody knows what happens to Carrie at the prom. That is exactly the problem with making Carrie again. Mike Flanagan’s new Prime Video series…
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.
At 60, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Is Testing Its Biggest Fans
Strange New Worlds is testing the patience of even its biggest defenders, but weird, progressive and occasionally terrible episodes are part of Star Trek…
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…
Practical Magic 2 Is What Happens When Audiences Refuse to Let a Movie Die
Critics weren't particularly enchanted by Practical Magic when it arrived in 1998. Audiences had other ideas. Nearly three decades later, they're still watching, and…
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.
Amazon Just Made YA Its Own Power Center at Prime Video
Amazon MGM Studios has named Carina Walker its new Head of Young Adult programming, formalizing a strategy already producing some of Prime Video’s biggest…
