‘This Fool’: Damn, It Feels Good (Not) to Be a Gangster
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Comedian Chris Estrada’s warm new series centers on a straitlaced counselor for ex-cons and his brash, fresh-out-of-jail cousin
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‘A League of Their Own’: There’s Still No Crying in Baseball — Just Room for Fixing Old Errors
Posted in: TV & Movies ReviewsAmazon's series wants to be both a worthy remake of the beloved 1992 sports movie and a corrective. It succeeds in one of those things
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‘Summering’ Works Better as a Mood Than It Does a Movie
Posted in: TV & Movies ReviewsThis delicate YA drama aims to be a modern 'Stand By Me' for young women, but its real strength is in capturing that transitional moment between childhood and the teen years in fits and bursts
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Flawed Humans, Awkward Sex, Messy Relationships: Yep, ‘Sharp Stick’ Is a Lena Dunham Movie
Posted in: TV & Movies ReviewsWith this film centered on a 26-year-old virgin, the Girls creator continues to master the art of crafting painfully un-self-aware characters and exploring the sloppiness of life
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‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Is a Crime Against Slasher Flicks
Posted in: TV & Movies ReviewsIt’s got a group of drunk friends, a storm that knocks the power out, a game that turns into an actual murder mystery, and Pete freakin’ Davidson. So why is this movie no damn fun?
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‘Easter Sunday’ Is Jo Koy’s Big-Screen Pitch to Get His Own Sitcom
Posted in: TV & Movies ReviewsThe popular stand-up fashions a comedy, based around his Filipino-American family, that feels less like a star vehicle and more like an audition tape
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‘The Sandman’: Neil Gaiman’s Twisted Dark Fantasy Is Finally Brought (Almost) to Life
Posted in: TV & Movies ReviewsSince the iconic comic-book series' debut in 1989, several attempted adaptations have collapsed. This Netflix take succeeds, sort of
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‘Prey’ Gives the ‘Predator’ Franchise Its Long-Awaited Masterpiece
Posted in: TV & Movies ReviewsA prequel — in which everyone's interstellar hunter lands among the 18th-century Comanche — gives us a new action hero and turns a genre mash-up into pure B-movie brilliance
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‘Bullet Train’ Would Be Better If They’d Just Named It ‘Kill Brad, Vol. 1’
Posted in: TV & Movies ReviewsThis adaptation of the popular Japanese crime novel drops the star into a Tarantino-lite mix tape of bickering assassins, revenge plots, J-cutesy eye candy and 'John Wick' outtakes
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‘Vengeance’ Will Make You Want to Punch B.J. Novak in the Face — in a Good Way
Posted in: TV & Movies ReviewsAs a narcissistic New York reporter stuck in bumblefuck Texas, the Office star, who also wrote and directed this comedy, is at his most likably unlikable
