TV & Movies Reviews
Amazon’s ‘War of the Worlds’ Movie Isn’t So Bad It’s Good. It’s Just Very, Very Bad
This meme-fodder remake starring Ice Cube will actively destroy your brain cells without the added benefit of being fun
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‘Freakier Friday’: Get in Loser, We’re Going to the Lohanaissance
Attention, millennials: The long-awaited sequel to the Jamie Lee Curtis-Lindsay Lohan body-swap classic is finally here, and it’s kind of great
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‘Platonic’ Reminds You That Big-Screen Comedy Has Migrated to TV
Once upon a time, this Seth Rogen-Rose Byrne show would have been playing at a theater near you. The movies’ loss is the streaming era’s gain
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‘Weapons’ Takes Aim at Your Nervous System — and Fires
Writer-director Zach Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian drops Julia Garner and Josh Brolin into a nightmare involving missing kids, communal paranoia, and chaos
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‘Alien: Earth’ Brings New Monsters, Big Ideas, and a Little Bit of Pixie Dust
Noah Hawley’s TV-series addition to the Aliens universe melds a Peter Pan story onto the original movie tales, and it mostly works
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Amazon’s ‘War of the Worlds’ Movie Isn’t So Bad It’s Good. It’s Just Very, Very Bad
This meme-fodder remake starring Ice Cube will actively destroy your brain cells without the added benefit of being fun
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‘Freakier Friday’: Get in Loser, We’re Going to the Lohanaissance
Attention, millennials: The long-awaited sequel to the Jamie Lee Curtis-Lindsay Lohan body-swap classic is finally here, and it’s kind of great
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‘Platonic’ Reminds You That Big-Screen Comedy Has Migrated to TV
Once upon a time, this Seth Rogen-Rose Byrne show would have been playing at a theater near you. The movies’ loss is the streaming era’s gain
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‘Weapons’ Takes Aim at Your Nervous System — and Fires
Writer-director Zach Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian drops Julia Garner and Josh Brolin into a nightmare involving missing kids, communal paranoia, and chaos
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‘Alien: Earth’ Brings New Monsters, Big Ideas, and a Little Bit of Pixie Dust
Noah Hawley’s TV-series addition to the Aliens universe melds a Peter Pan story onto the original movie tales, and it mostly works
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‘Together’ Takes on Man’s Most Terrifying Horror: Commitment
Alison Brie and Dave Franco remind you that love means never having to say you’re sorry, but you may have to occasionally saw each other’s limbs apart
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'Eyes of Wakanda' Will Rekindle Your Love for the Black Panther Universe
The four-episode animated series features dazzling action sequences and fresh stories to illustrate Wakanda's huge significance in the wider world
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'Chief of War' Needs Less Talk, More Combat
Big action scenes are too few and too late in Jason Momoa's new Apple TV+ series, a historical epic about the late-18th-century battle to unify the Hawaiian islands
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‘The Naked Gun’: Liam Neeson Uses a Particular Set of Comedy Skills
The actor goes full Leslie Nielsen with this reboot filled with dick jokes, deadpan hilarity, sight gags, and more dick jokes
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'Happy Gilmore 2': Hooray! Adam Sandler's Brawling Golf Bro Is Back
The Sandman's bad boy of the links returns, complete with callbacks, celebrity cameos, and enough fan service to choke a one-eyed alligator
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