Emily in Paris Season 5, but It’s Rome (Where She Wants To)
Deeply annoying and yet highly watchable.
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The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025
The best TV shows of the last 12 months, and where to watch them.
Sophomore Season of Prime Video’s “Fallout” Gets a Bit Lost in the Desert
If it lacks direction, that displacement sometimes feels like a product of the story that’s being told.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
It’s an ambitious delight, a movie that doesn’t divide the faithful from the heretic but reminds them of their common needs.
Goodbye June
The whole film feels like a production of calling in favors, as the relatively hotshot cast it drew seems incongruent with its content.
HBO’s “Heated Rivalry” is the Sexiest and Most Significant Queer Show of the Year
A review of the Canadian drama, now a hit on HBO Max.
Netflix’s “The Abandons” Leaves Its Capable Stars Behind in a Weak, Weary Western
it’s a right shame that the nuggets of melodrama can’t make up for the feeling that we’ve seen so much of this kind of show before.
Starz Returns to Form With Brutal and Brilliant Spin-Off “Spartacus: House of Ashur”
A spin-off series that not only honors the legacy of its predecessor, but one that, at times, rivals it.
“Stranger Things” Sets Up Its Endgame with Quartet of New Episodes
While these four episodes stumble a bit in terms of pacing and urgency, especially early on, they end on such a satisfying, long-awaited note that fans who have literally grown up watching this show are unlikely to care.
Wong Kar-wai’s Gorgeous, Captivating “Blossoms Shanghai” Arrives on the Criterion Channel
Wong Kar-wai’s Blossoms Shanghai is finally here. It was worth the wait.
The Family Plan 2
It’s such a non-movie that it actually becomes difficult to review because there’s so little to hold onto that it dissipates from memory while you’re watching it.
Ted Danson Goes Back to School in the Charming Second Season of Netflix’s “A Man on the Inside”
This is low-key, endearing, stress-free viewing at its best.
