TV amp; Movies Reviews

David Cronenberg would like to have a few words with you about death. There have, of course, been an abundance of folks who’ve shuffled off this mortal coil within the Canadian filmmaker’s nearly six decades’ worth of movies, often in the most baroque, grotesque manner possible. (Who could ever forget …

There are two ideas at the core of The Rehearsal, the Nathan Fielder docu-comedy that returns for its second season this weekend on HBO. The first is the core theme of much of Fielder’s work, and particularly his Comedy Central series Nathan For You: Fielder’s never-ending quest to figure out …

A presidential candidate who plays to white grievance is almost assassinated. A Black woman runs for president. A major deportation threat hangs in the air. People take to the streets to protest bombings and genocide. Sounds very much like modern times. Instead, it’s the post-Woodstock world of the early Seventies …

Charlie Heller, the bereaved rookie vigilante Rami Malek plays in The Amateur, is all brains and no brawn. That sets him apart from his colleagues at the CIA, where he works as a cryptographer, running numbers while they run down suspects. It also distinguishes him, of course, from the Jason …

Think back to the single worst date you’ve ever had. You know, the one that started off bad before devolving into Chernobyl-level disaster, and that was less a missed connection than a full-on derailment? It may not have ended in romance, but it would always be a night to remember …

They say nothing forms stronger bonds than the shared experience of combat, and that the feeling of deep fraternity forged under fire is as close, if not closer, than the love one harbors for family and country. Warfare understands this. A movie about a single siege on a single day …

It’s been more than two years since the end of The Last of Us Season One, and even longer for the show’s two weary postapocalyptic heroes: taciturn Joel (Pedro Pascal) and his surrogate daughter Ellie (Bella Ramsey). When the second season begins, a lot has happened between the two, and …

…And on the sixth day, God created the animals of the land, including the livestock, those that crept upon the ground, and some wonky-looking wolves and chickens and bees that took upon themself an almost cube-like shape. Then He created humans in His own image, as well as some villagers …

In the debut of the darkly comic new FX miniseries Dying for Sex, Molly (Michelle Williams) learns that her breast cancer has returned and is now terminal, then thinks on her nonexistent sex life with husband Steve (Jay Duplass) and declares, “I’ve never even had an orgasm with another person. …

Action megastar Jason Statham still looks powerful for a man inching toward 60. And the older he gets, the more worn and lived-in his face becomes, like my therapist’s leather couch. So what if he doesn’t take off his shirt as much anymore? He’s built like a wrestler, but graceful, …