Reviews
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‘The King of Kings’ Review: Oscar Isaac Stars in a Bland, Animated Bible Greatest Hits Album
Kenneth Branagh co-stars as Charles Dickens in a mediocre kids movie that turns Jesus Christ’s life into a marketplace
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‘Smash’ Broadway Review: Taking a Sharp Pin to the Marilyn Monroe Balloon
To its credit, the new stage musical, based on the NBC TV series, is more send-up than celebration of the sex symbol
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‘Sinners’ Review: Even Vampires Get the Blues in Ryan Coogler’s Awe-Inspiring Horror Film
Michael B. Jordan stars opposite himself as 1930s gangsters who face the undead
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‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 Review: Excellent Cast and Dazzling Sequels Fuel Rich New Batch of Episodes
Will Poulter, Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd and Cristin Milioti lead an all-star season that doubles down on Charlie Brooker’s trademark delicious weirdness
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‘G20’ Review: President Viola Davis Beats Up Economy-Crashing Baddies in Ramshackle ‘Die Hard’ Riff
You either want to watch President Viola Davis beat up mediocre white dudes who just crashed the economy, or you don’t
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‘Old Friends’ Broadway Review: Do We Need Another Stephen Sondheim Revue?
This tired songfest does nothing to enhance the master composer’s reputation
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‘The Amateur’ Review: Revenge Is a Dish Best Served in Other Movies
Rami Malek plays a CIA desk jockey-turned-assassin in this generic, competent, familiar spy thriller
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‘Becoming Eve’ Off Broadway Review: God Herself Would Have to Applaud Richard Schiff
The Emmy-winning “West Wing” actor stars in a great new play about three very different rabbis
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‘Boop!’ Broadway Review: First Barbie, Now Betty Gets Dragged Into the 21 Century
It’s “boop-oop-a-doop” for a musical that needs a good spritz of Pooph
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‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 Review: Humanity Shatters as HBO Drama Examines Cycles of Violence to Devastating Effect
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey shine as the show cuts deeper into character and makes critical changes from the video game
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‘The Last Five Years’ Broadway Review: Nick Jonas & Adrienne Warren Make Love in Reverse
The two stars have chemistry, but get crossed-up in a weak production that is both minimal and messy
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‘Dying for Sex’ Review: Michelle Williams Delivers Career-Best Performance in Poignant and Hilarious FX Limited Series
Kim Rosenstock and Elizabeth Meriwether strike a delicate balance in this show about a woman searching for the perfect orgasm before cancer kills her
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‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway Review: George Clooney Takes on McCarthy, Then Musk
In a spectacular Broadway debut as actor and writer, the star scores major points for America’s left
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‘Hacks’ Season 4 Review: Max Series Tackles Late Night in Hilariously Vicious Return
Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder’s new dynamic keeps the Emmy-winning series on top
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 6 Review: Hulu Series Ends With More of the Same Missed Opportunities
But Elisabeth Moss and Yvonne Strahovski still shine in the final chapters of the dystopian thriller
