You’d have to go all the way back to 2000’s Snatch for the last Guy Ritchie project that I awaited with unabashed anticipation. At the… Read More »‘MobLand’ Review: Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan Offer Mumbly Menace in Derivative Paramount+ Crime Thriller
When Jennifer Euston was casting Orange Is the New Black, it stands to reason that she was selecting interesting performers first and, given the show’s… Read More »‘The Residence’ Review: Uzo Aduba Solves a Murder at 1600 in a Netflix Mystery That Amuses and Exhausts in Equal Measure
Taking eight episodes for what would, in more efficient hands, be a pilot — and setting up a second season that’s somehow even less necessary… Read More »‘Happy Face’ Review: Dennis Quaid Plays a Serial Killer in a Paramount+ Drama That’s Half-Real, Half-Fictionalized and Entirely Misconceived
For a while, Apple TV+‘s adaptation of Dennis Tafoya’s Dope Thief fits into one of my favorite subgenres of crime fiction: Longtime friends, bonded by… Read More »‘Dope Thief’ Review: Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura Make a Compelling Duo, but Apple TV+ Crime Thriller Loses Steam
Everything is not sunny in Philadelphia on the small screen this week. Both Apple TV+’s Dope Thief — review coming Thursday — and Peacock‘s Long… Read More »‘Long Bright River’ Review: Amanda Seyfried Stars in a Philly-Set Peacock Mystery That Treads Water for Too Long
The official description for Netflix’s new documentary CHAOS: The Manson Murders invites viewers to “Explore a conspiracy of mind control, CIA experiments and murder.” The… Read More »‘CHAOS: The Manson Murders’ Review: Errol Morris’ Tease of a Netflix Doc Is More Interesting to Think About Than to Watch
The ultimate sign of television’s arrival as a cinematic art form may be the medium’s growing obsession with the oner — the uninterrupted single-shot technique… Read More »‘Adolescence’ Review: Netflix’s Taut One-Shot Legal Thriller Is More Than Its Gimmick
During a lull in the second half of Netflix‘s six-part political thriller Zero Day — and there are more lulls than there should be —… Read More »‘Zero Day’ Review: Robert De Niro and a Tremendous Supporting Cast Are Wasted in Netflix’s Self-Serious Political Thriller
Several great stories about the underbelly of Victorian London get smushed together to yield something less great but often extremely entertaining in Steven Knight‘s new… Read More »‘A Thousand Blows’ Review: Steven Knight’s Hulu Boxing Drama Blends Genres to Entertaining if Conventional Effect
Millennials, the generational punching bag of TV’s past decade, are the big winners in Tubi’s new original comedy The Z-Suite. Over the four episodes sent… Read More »‘The Z-Suite’ Review: Lauren Graham Gets Stranded in Tubi’s Tiresome Generation Gap Comedy
I’m far too young to make first-hand references to “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?),” but I like… Read More »‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Review: Disney+’s New Web-Slinging Adventure Offers Throwback Charm but Little Innovation
[Warning: Because this review cannot and will not spoil key twists from Hulu‘s new drama, Paradise, I will instead spoil key twists from Apple TV+’s… Read More »‘Paradise’ Review: Sterling K. Brown Investigates a Presidential Murder in Hulu’s Twist-Driven ‘This Is Us’ Reunion
