Review: Die, My Love Is Jennifer Lawrence’s Best Performance
In an early scene in Lynne Ramsay’s brutal, beautiful Die, My Love, we see Jennifer Lawrence crawling through a sunny, grassy field on all fours,...
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J.J. Abrams’ ’70s Crime Show ‘Duster’ Is Almost Too Much Fun
Someday, Josh Holloway should play Matthew McConnaughey’s brother. There’s an obvious physical resemblance; born within months of one another in 1969, both actors are tall...
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‘Miss Austen’ Inverts Jane Austen’s Marriage Plot: Review
No novelist in the English language is more closely associated with the marriage plot than Jane Austen. That literary trope turned rom-com convention gives structure...
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Is ‘Bad Boy’ Netflix’s Next ‘Adolescence’?: Review
In an early scene of Bad Boy, an award-winning Israeli drama series that has just arrived on Netflix, Tamara Scheinman opens her front door to...
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Ben Affleck Is a Blast to Watch in The Accountant 2
I suffer from what I call an Afflecktion: a love for Ben Affleck that’s also just a little apologetic, as if I know there are...
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‘The Rehearsal’ Season 2 Is About More Than Aviation Safety
Nathan Fielder is kind of spooky. From the meta corporate satire of “Dumb Starbucks,” an ingenious viral stunt from his mid-2010s Comedy Central show Nathan...
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The Amateur Is Serviceably Entertaining—With a ’90s Feel
Though The Amateur is a new movie, and a fairly entertaining one, in many ways it feels like a missive from a lost era. A...
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Viola Davis Plays a Butt-Kicking President in ‘G20’
The only thing that stretches credulity more than a woman president who picks up an automatic weapon to blast a gang of baddies at a...
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‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 Episodes, Ranked From Worst to Best
The seventh season of Black Mirror is, relatively speaking, quite good. I say this as a longtime skeptic of creator Charlie Brooker’s high-tech Twilight Zone—an...
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‘Death of a Unicorn’ Forces the Fantasy
It’s increasingly difficult to get people under 40—or, for that matter, anybody—out to movie theaters, but in the past few years, one genre has held...
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Snow White Reminds Us That Some Remakes Are Warranted
In a movie climate where remakes tend to draw sneers of derision and claims that people have just gotten too lazy to invent anything new,...
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Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’ Is the First Must-See Show of 2025
“If it was up to me,” an idealistic Hollywood executive played by Seth Rogen assures his assistant in the series premiere of The Studio, “we’d...