‘Down Cemetery Road’ Review: Thriller for ‘Slow Horses’ Fans
In the premiere of Down Cemetery Road, a desperate woman walks into a private investigator’s office. “Let me guess,” says the detective, Zoë Boehm (Emma...
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Breaking Down the Unsettling Ending of The Asset
The Asset, a Danish thriller series out on Netflix on Oct. 27, explores the intricate web of deception within Denmark’s Security and Intelligence Service (PET)....
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‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Premiere Ending, Explained
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Episode 1 of IT: Welcome to Derry. The Losers Club may have finally figured out how to defeat Pennywise...
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The Stories Behind ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’
If you’ve seen any trailers for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, you have every right to expect a high-octane biopic of the legendary New Jersey...
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Breaking Down the Shattering Ending of Invasion Season 3
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Invasion Season 3 Death hangs in the air when Invasion’s Season 3 finale begins. In the penultimate episode, Verna...
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Ethan Hawke Is Sensational in Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon
Who doesn’t love Oklahoma!, the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein extravaganza that kicked off what’s often called the golden age of musical theater? If you don’t...
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In Hedda’s Take on Ibsen, Style Gets in the Way of Substance
Certain plays, love ’em or hate ’em, are useful in the same way standards make a great playground for singers and jazz musicians. A play...
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How Jenni Konner Helped ‘Nobody Wants This’ Go Deeper
The veteran television writer Jenni Konner knows how to tune out bad press. After all, she spent six seasons as the co-showrunner of HBO’s Girls,...
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‘Task’ Ending Explained: “A Still Small Voice” of Redemption
This article discusses, in detail, the finale of HBO’s Task. The finale of Brad Ingelsby’s Mare of Easttown follow up, Task, was just as exciting...
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‘Black Phone 2,’ Ending Explained
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Black Phone 2. By the end of 2022’s The Black Phone, 13-year-old Finney Shaw (Mason Thames) had managed to...
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Aziz Ansari’s ‘Good Fortune’ Is an Amiable Comedy with Bite
Delight is hard to come by at the movies these days, and most of us will take any little scrap we can get. Good Fortune,...
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The True Story Behind Netflix Dark Comedy Good News
Like many of cinema’s best historical black comedies, Good News is based on fact. The Korean film follows the real-life 1970 hijacking of a Japanese...