Tag: Reviews

“Being in funeral service, we cannot bring our work home,” a mortician says early on HBO’s new true crime docuseries The Mortician. “No one wants to talk over dinner about ...

There is nothing that will make me fall out of love with the marvelous maelstrom of exasperating nonsense that is the Sex and the City prequel series And Just Like ...

Feel-good sports movies are a dime a dozen, and Stick carries on their tradition.The catch is that instead of handling its redemptive underdog tale in a crisp 90 minutes, Jason ...

Even in our modern-day IP glut, three months has to be a new record. That’s how much time has passed in between the series finale of Netflix’s long-running Karate Kid ...

Now that Christopher McQuarrie has been promoted from Jack Reacher writer-director to full-time Tom Cruise Whisperer, Scott Frank has lost his competition as premier screenwriter and sometime director in the ...

There’s a fine melodramatic dilemma at the heart of the limited series The Better Sister: Adam (Corey Stoll) is married to Nicky (Elizabeth Banks), an unstable addict. When Adam starts ...

As in their ferocious Talk to Me, the dead haunt the living in Danny and Michael Philippou’s Bring Her Back. However, whereas the sibling directors’ debut was concerned with communion, ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is for the book lovers, not the romance lovers. Written and directed by Laura Piani, this French romantic comedy joins the ever-growing roster of Austen-inspired ...

The comedy-drama Girls premiered about 14 years after its HBO ancestor Sex and the City and it certainly felt informed by its predecessor, even (or especially) as the newer show ...

Four chummy tech titans take their self-anointed status as masters of the universe all-too-seriously in Mountainhead, the directorial debut of Succession creator Jesse Armstrong. Still fascinated with the psychological make-up ...