‘We Can Be Heroes’ Review: A Big-Hearted Celebration of LARP-ing Teens
Carina Mia Wong and Alex Simmons' SXSW-premiering documentary follows kids at a live action role-playing summer camp in upstate New York.
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‘MoviePass, MovieCrash’ Review: HBO Doc Is an Effectively Nostalgic Communal Wake for Film Fans
Muta'Ali's documentary looks back at what went right and then very wrong with the innovative, doomed service.
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‘3 Body Problem’ Review: Netflix’s Ambitious Sci-Fi Adaptation Is More Serviceable Than Dazzling
David Benioff, D. B. Weiss and Alexander Woo bring Liu Cixin's Chinese novel to the streamer with a season of eight episodes, the first of which premiered at SXSW.
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‘Stormy’ Review: Peacock’s Stormy Daniels Documentary Is Undone by Bad Choices (and Not Hers)
Sarah Gibson's feature-length doc portrays the adult entertainer and filmmaker as she lives her life in the eye of a Donald Trump-shaped storm.
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‘Boarders’ Review: A Strong Cast of Newcomers Elevates Tubi’s Likably Familiar High-School Dramedy
Daniel Lawrence Taylor's six-episode series looks at the fish-out-of-water adventures of five scholarship kids from South London at a posh prep school.
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‘Elsbeth’ Review: Carrie Preston’s ‘Good Wife’ Character Gets an Appealingly Broad CBS Spinoff
Cheery and calculating Elsbeth Tascioni leaps from her Chicago legal practice to a Columbo-esque mystery-solving gig in New York City in Robert and Michelle King's new series.
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‘The Regime’ Review: Kate Winslet Shines, but the Political Satire Is Shaky, in HBO Limited Series
The 'Mare of Easttown' star plays the autocratic chancellor of a fictional European republic in this new six-parter from 'Succession' veteran Will Tracy.
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Critics’ Conversation: Winter TV’s Wicked Games
THR’s TV critics weigh in on a conspicuously murderous past few months of small-screen offerings, with a wide range of whodunits dominating the landscape — and a few refreshing exceptions to the rule (thank you, Max’s Sort Of!).
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‘The Vince Staples Show’ Review: Netflix’s Meditation on Fame Has Potential, but for What?
'Abbott Elementary' guest star and rapper Vince Staples gets a five-episode showcase in the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' semi-autobiographical vein.
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Critic’s Notebook: Jon Stewart Returned to ‘The Daily Show’ Like No Time Had Passed. Is That a Good Thing?
Kicking off nine months of pre-election Mondays in satisfactory but safe fashion, the Emmy-winning icon made familiar jokes about Joe Biden and Donald Trump's age, as well as his own.
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‘Shogun’ Review: FX/Hulu’s James Clavell Adaptation Is Big and Beautiful, but Its Romance Fails to Ignite
Nearly 45 years after the Richard Chamberlain miniseries, FX and Hulu go back to 17th-century Japan for a refocused take on the source material.
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Critic’s Notebook: Usher and Friends Bring Boundless Energy to a Sparkling Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show
Alicia Keys, H.E.R., Ludacris and the Jackson State Marching Band joined the "Yeah!" singer for his Las Vegas halftime residency.
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