Reviews
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‘The Marvels’ Review: Iman Vellani Steals the Show in Weak MCU Team-Up
Nia DaCosta’s feature is a fun, colorful adventure with Brie Larson returning as Captain Marvel
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U2 in Las Vegas: Looking to the Past, Finding a Crazy Vision of the Future
The band’s residency at the Sphere showcases a 30-year-old album in an astounding setting
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‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ Review: David Oyelowo Commands the Latest Taylor Sheridan Show
The Paramount+ series traces the origin story of the real-life hero
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‘I Need That’ Broadway Review: A Lot of Junk Buries Danny DeVito
Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy plays cute with a chronic hoarding disorder
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‘Sabbath’s Theater’ Off Broadway Review: John Turturro Wrestles With Philip Roth
Ariel Levy and Turturro’s adaption of the author’s raunchiest novel presents a softer, gentler creep
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‘All the Light We Cannot See’ Review: Netflix Limited Series Fails to Capture Pulitzer-Winning Novel’s Essence
Despite a winning lead performance by newcomer Aria Mia Loberti, the four-part show based on Anthony Doerr’s 2014 book is overly broad and mostly bad
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‘Poor Yella Rednecks’ Off Broadway Review: The Vietnam War’s End Was Only the Beginning
Yellowface gets its comic comeuppance in Qui Nguyen’s play about Asian immigrants in Arkansas
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‘Black Cake’ Review: Hulu’s Epic Tale of Family Secrets Centers the Caribbean Diaspora
The Oprah-produced series, starring Mia Isaac, revolves around the mysterious life of a Jamaican Chinese woman and her ambitious children
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‘I Can Get It for You Wholesale’ Off Broadway Review: Barbra Streisand’s Other Stage Musical Gets a Second Look
The production that marked the star’s Broadway debut has its own special magic beyond being a launching pad to “Funny Girl”
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‘Stereophonic’ Off Broadway Review: Part Robert Altman, Part Fleetwood Mac
David Adjmi’s play and Will Butler’s score bring back the 1970s in claustrophobic detail
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‘The Gilded Age’ Season 2 Review: HBO Drama Boasts Flashy Sets, Falters on Story
Julian Fellowes’ period piece, led by Carrie Coon and Christine Baranski, still struggles to develop characters beyond cardboard cutouts of old American society
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‘Freud’s Last Session’ Review: Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode Out Analyze Each Other in Dense Drama
Director Matthew Brown tells a unique blend of fantasy and reality
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‘Fingernails’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed Fail to Elevate Dusty ‘Twilight Zone’ Premise
The film also stars Jeremy Allen White as those seeking to quantify their compatibility
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‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Review: The Iconic Game Becomes a Tedious Adaptation of Its Wiki Page
Director Emma Tammi spends more time explaining than showing audiences why the game is so scary
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‘Fellow Travelers’ Review: Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey Lead a Brilliant Mix of Sex, Politics and Manipulation
The Showtime limited series follows a decades-long affair set to the backdrop of intense political dangers and the burgeoning gay rights movement