‘Deli Boys’ Review: A Madcap Gangster Comedy With Heart
Ah, the American Dream. Step 1: Arrive in Philadelphia with $3 in your pocket. Step 2: Get a job at a deli. Step 3: Buy...
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‘With Love, Meghan’ Is Another Bland Sussex Show
Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, live on a stunning estate in Montecito, an upscale coastal enclave near Santa Barbara, Calif....
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You’re Cordially Invited Serves Up the Wrong Kind of Chaos
Considering the world has gone mad, this ought to be the ultimate era for chaos comedy: movies in which alligators are wrestled into bed, in...
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‘Squid Game 2’ Review: Capitalism Killed ‘Squid Game’
In an early episode of Squid Game 2, the series’ working-class hero Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) is summoned to a dance club on Halloween night....
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‘The Madness’ Is a ’70s-Style Paranoid Thriller for 2024
Muncie Daniels is just trying to make his voice heard over the cacophony that passes for public discourse. An ambitious CNN commentator, the protagonist of...
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FX’s ‘English Teacher’ Is the Year’s Best New Sitcom: Review
It’s been a strange, sparse year for TV, as the short-term impact of 2023’s Hollywood strikes compounds the effects of a contraction within the streaming...
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Hulu’s Queenie Might Just Fill the Insecure-Shaped Hole in Your Heart
Hulu’s wonderful new dramedy Queenie opens with an overhead, medium close-up shot that puts viewers face-to-face with the show’s namesake heroine. Twenty-five-year-old Queenie Jenkins is...
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Robot Dreams Is a Joyous Ode to Friendship and ’80s New York
In animation, the simplest things can have the biggest impact: the jaunty swish of a dog’s pointed tail, a day-at-the-beach scene rendered in jellybean colors,...
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Review: Kevin Costner’s Horizon Falls Short of Great Western
Every khbrknews a filmmaker or showrunner takes a gamble on a big Western, a million journalists and critics start tippety-typing about how “The Western is...
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‘Furiosa’ Is All Spectacle and No Vision
In George Miller’s 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road—a sequel to the post-apocalyptic chronicle Miller kicked off in the late 1970s, with Mel Gibson as a...
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Netflix’s ‘A Man in Full’ Makes an Epic Novel Feel Small
Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is a massive book, in more ways than one. A 742-page social novel with an iconoclastic Atlanta real estate...
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Challengers Belongs to Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist
The strapping grandeur of Myron’s Discobolus notwithstanding, it’s weirdly taboo to acknowledge the sensual appeal of athletes. Somehow we’re not supposed to notice the sassy-tight...