Season 2 of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” Keeps the Formula With Some Improvements
There’s a reason so many love stories are about the initial courtship—it makes for good drama in a way the work of making relationships function just doesn’t.
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HBO’s “IT: Welcome to Derry” Feels too Much Like a Sideshow in the Stephen King Circus
This vision of Derry too often feels like one of those Hollywood backlots: all the facades look right, but there’s nothing behind them.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Cerveza has found a way to take an old story and comment on something new without fundamentally altering the source material.
Harlan Coben’s Lazarus
The show reveals motives and suspects come out of crevices that feel so engineered to surprise you that they often stop making sense.
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It’s a messy movie in a way that produces frustration instead of fear, and its nods to commentary on gender roles and the need to become and stay beautiful feel shallow and insincere.
In Mubi’s “Hal & Harper,” Cooper Raiff Has a Hard Time Growing Up
What elevates the show’s hazy presentation, though, is the performances of Reinhart and Ruffalo.
Mr. Scorsese
This project is largely a love letter to creativity, a story of a man who pushed through every valley in his career to create a higher peak.
William Fichtner Transforms AMC’s “Talamasca” Into Something Worthwhile
A review of the new show set in Anne Rice’s universe, one stolen by a great character actor.
In the Third Season of “The Diplomat,” It’s All Upsides and Distances, Darling
It’s easy to see why “The Diplomat” is Emmy-nominated; this show deserves the praise.
“Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy” is a Tough but Important Watch
A haunting series that emphasizes the humanity of the victims and the loss they experienced to their loved ones and the world.
Ballad of a Small Player
“Ballad of a Small Player” is one of the most over-directed films I’ve ever seen.
CBS Wants Your Sitcom Time to Be Spent at the “DMV”
“DMV” is already at that phase where it just needs to refine what it does well to become a weekly watch for the millions of people who still watch CBS.
Apple TV+ Thriller “The Last Frontier” Gets Snowed Under In Pulpy Action and Cheap Melodrama
“The Last Frontier” flits between two distinct modes, one entertaining and one frustrating.
Tim Robinson Sits in a World of Paranoid Conspiracies in HBO’s “The Chair Company”
It’s a show that alternately plays like a mystery and a study of a man going insane. It might be both.
Murdaugh: Death in the Family
The acting often outshines the merely competent direction, editing, and melodramatic writing.
