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Critic’s Notebook: Busy and Eclectic Oscars 2024 Telecast Delivers Many Highlights (and a Few Lowlights)
Jimmy Kimmel held together a slightly manic 2024 Oscars telecast featuring mostly predictable winners, a dazzling musical salute to Barbie's boy toy, and several presenters in fine form.
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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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‘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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‘Alice & Jack’ Review: Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson Star in PBS’ Romantic Endurance Test
The series charts a decade and a half in the intense but troubled relationship between a sweet scientist and a prickly financier.
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‘The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin’ Review: Noel Fielding in Thin but Enjoyably Silly Apple TV+ Comedy
The Brit funnyman stars as an 18th century highwayman who builds a reputation for panache while trying to escape the clutches of a corrupt thieftaker, played by Hugh Bonneville.
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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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‘The Gentlemen’ Review: Theo James Stars in a Guy Ritchie Netflix Series That Diverts but Never Dazzles
A spinoff of Ritchie's 2019 movie, the show centers on an aristocrat who inherits his late father's estate — and with it, his late father's involvement in a marijuana business.
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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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‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Review: Netflix’s Live-Action Remake Is a Major Letdown
The streamer's take on the beloved animated series centers on a young boy tasked with saving the world by mastering all four elements: earth, air, water and fire.
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‘Constellation’ Review: Noomi Rapace in an Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Mystery That Starts With a Bang, Ends With a Whimper
The series centers on an astronaut who survives a space-station accident, only to discover upon her return to Earth that her life is not as she remembered it.
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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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‘The New Look’ Review: Juliette Binoche and Ben Mendelsohn Play Coco Chanel and Christian Dior in Sumptuous Apple TV+ Series
The fashion heavyweights cut contrasting journeys through Nazi-occupied Paris and postwar Europe in the drama from Todd A. Kessler ('Damages').
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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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