TV amp; Movies Reviews

The rich, they are not like you and I — they see the world through the jaundiced lens of extreme privilege, they view everything from retail luxury items to relationships as disposable (and easily replaceable), they think nothing of hunting mythical beasts for sport and/or the key to immortality. Death …

“What’s going to happen to the dog?” This sentence is repeated close to a dozen times in The Friend, an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s novel about a woman, a ghost, and a 180-pound Great Dane, and it’s the second biggest question that haunts this gently funny, deeply mournful movie. (It …

In the new showbiz comedy The Studio, Bryan Cranston has a recurring role as Griffin Mill, the craven movie executive played by Tim Robbins in the 1992 film The Player. It’s not the only homage that The Studio, co-created by and starring Seth Rogen, pays to Robert Altman’s classic movie …

There are, by the organization’s current count, some 160,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, many of whom are booking gigs on the regular. To be fair, very few of these performers are genuine 1970s cinema icons, not to mention the brand-name embodiment of a whole genre. Robert De Niro …

Late in the new Netflix limited series The Residence, a character complains, “People like a murder mystery! They think they’re fun!” After a beat, though, he can’t help but admit, “And it is fun.” “Fun” is absolutely the watchword of this comic thriller, created by Paul William Davies and produced …

If every movie is also a documentary of the moment in which it’s made — big up the French filmmaker behind that quote — it’s way more interesting to think of this new, live-action Snow White as a time capsule for our through-the-looking-glass moment than as a fresh take on …

There’s art, there’s entertainment — and then there’s “content,” the catch-all term that refers to the endless supply of stuff that is pumped out in the name of numbers and inventory. Art enlightens. Entertainment provides escapism. Content is simply there, clogging up the arteries of streaming services and clickbait sites, …

“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” — Henny Youngman Boundaries are important in any relationship, much less a till-death-do-us-part union in which both parties are spies involved in highly classified operations for a British intelligence agency. Steven Soderbergh and David Koepp get it. They understand the need …

The new Netflix miniseries Adolescence packs a lot into its four episodes. It is, depending on the chapter, a police procedural; a sociological examination of male rage, cyberbullying, and a failing British school system; a psychological thriller; and a tragedy about how in the 21st century, a child’s bedroom can …

There’s nothing like starting a movie with a running gag, and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl kicks off with a beauty. A young woman Shula (Susan Chardy) is driving home late at night. She notices something in the road. It’s a body. Not only that — Shula recognizes …