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Predators Prowl America in Eerie Second Season of Netflix’s ‘Mindhunter’
Features • Published on August 2019
Getting to know the mental landscape of a monster doesn’t get any easier in the new season of Netflix’s “Mindhunter.” We could never expect it, considering how the…
‘The Angry Birds Movie 2’ Flies Into New Territory With Bigger Laughs
Features • Published on August 2019
Summertime is the ideal season to venture out into your local multiplex to witness a saga of candy-colored birds, some with arched eyebrows, do battle with green-toned pig adversaries living on a neighboring…
Freedom Remains a Distant Dream in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 3 Finale
Features • Published on August 2019
Continuing to expand Margaret Atwood’s novel, Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” has become a work of pure aesthetic force. What has stood out in its third season is the…
Everything Goes Back to the Beginning in the Series Finale of ‘Legion’
Features • Published on August 2019
In its mind-bending fashion, FX’s “Legion” bows out. Trippy but surprisingly simple, the series finale goes through the show’s usual motions of psychedelic dreamscapes, time travel and archaic dialogue…
‘Succession’ Season 2 Is the Vicious Family Reunion You Don’t Want to Miss
Features • Published on August 2019
HBO’s second season of “Succession” feels like entering a vipers’ nest posing as a family reunion. When it first premiered last year, the show was part of a…
‘The Kitchen’: Elisabeth Moss, Melissa Mccarthy and Tiffany Haddish Are Great in Otherwise Stale Crime Caper
Features • Published on August 2019
“The Kitchen” seems to imply that family values and feminist ideals are best expressed through running a criminal organization, chopping up opponents and handing your frail husband over…
‘After the Wedding’: Julianne Moore and Director Bart Freundlich on Approaching an Acclaimed Story With Fresh Eyes
Features • Published on August 2019
“After the Wedding” is a different kind of remake. It reimagines a 2006 Danish film, which was nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar, by changing the gender…
‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’: Shia LeBeouf and Zack Gottsagen Are One of This Year’s Most Endearing Screen Teams
Features • Published on August 2019
“The Peanut Butter Falcon” tells one of those delightfully old-fashioned stories where friendships are formed on the run. It’s about outcasts and dreamers, told with a simplicity that…
‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ Provides Well-Crafted Scares for Teens
Features • Published on August 2019
“Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” is a teen horror that features all the visual craft of a talented director and a masterful producer. There can be…
HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ Closes Its First Season in Waves of Visual Ecstasy and Longing
Features • Published on August 2019
“Euphoria” ends its unforgettable first season in an ecstatic finale that could serve as a requiem for Gen Z. One of HBO’s best offerings this year, “Euphoria” is…
‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Is a Buffet of Edgy Satire and Sharp Laughs
Features • Published on August 2019
“A Black Lady Sketch Show” bursts with refreshing enthusiasm and mischievous creativity. It’s almost hard to properly define this new and brilliant offering from HBO. Much of it…
‘Dear White People’: Being Socially Conscious Gets Trickier in Tangled Third Season
Features • Published on August 2019
Everyone is all over the place in the new season of Netflix’s “Dear White People.” The confusion makes sense in a way, because as college progresses the characters…
‘The Red Sea Diving Resort’ Tells the True Story of an Israeli Operation to Smuggle Jewish Ethiopian Refugees
Features • Published on July 2019
In the late ’70s, as civil war raged in Ethiopia, Israel carried out a clandestine operation to smuggle Ethiopian Jews out of Africa. This is the story told with the style and verve…
Hulu’s ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ Stumbles Down the Remake Aisle
Features • Published on July 2019
Imagine a romantic comedy that takes itself so pompously serious that it is unaware of what it is. That’s the feeling you get while watching season one of Hulu’s “Four…
‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ Frames the Israel-Palestine Conflict as a Comedic Soap Opera
Features • Published on July 2019
The Israel-Palestine conflict would be the last subject most viewers would think of when considering the idea of a comedy. But with “Tel Aviv on Fire,” director Sameh Zoabi…
‘Share’ Taps Into the Dark Reality of a Teen Girl’s Assault in the Digital Age
Features • Published on July 2019
HBO’s “Share” reflects rather darkly on the ways the digital age is affecting life for Gen Z. Our private lives are under the constant glare of smart phones…
‘Orange Is the New Black’ Says Goodbye With Grit and Tears
Features • Published on July 2019
Some stay behind bars while others taste the uncertainty of freedom in the seventh and final season of Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black.” It’s a fitting end…
Guy Nattiv’s ‘Skin’ Journeys Into the Darkness of the American Neo-Nazi Underground
Features • Published on July 2019
In these heated political times it is a sad constant to see images of white supremacist groups in the news, menacing and marching, shouting proto-fascist slogans. “Skin” dares…
‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’: Tarantino Delivers a Cinematic Rush of Nostalgia Under the Shadow of Manson
Features • Published on July 2019
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” recalls the Los Angeles of 1969 in waves of cinematic reverie. This passionate work by Quentin Tarantino…
‘Mike Wallace Is Here’ Follows Legendary Newsman Through the Evolution of TV News
Features • Published on July 2019
Can we blame the late Mike Wallace for Bill O’Reilly? The disgraced former Fox News firebrand makes the claim himself at the beginning of the documentary “Mike Wallace Is Here…