Reviews
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‘Crystal Lake’ Review: Linda Cardellini Elevates Peacock’s Wobbly ‘Friday the 13th’ Prequel Series
Brad Caleb Kane’s eight-part retelling of Jason Voorhees’ origin story suffers from having to stick to the franchise script
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‘VisionQuest’ Review: Paul Bettany Is Electric in Marvel’s Silly but Worthy ‘WandaVision’ Saga Conclusion
James Spader, Emily Hampshire and Ruaridh Mollica are highlights in this fun and surprisingly light Disney+ series
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‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika’s Fantasy Epic Is One of the Most Astonishing Animated Movies Ever Made
The stop-motion adventure, directed by Travis Knight, is so ambitious and intricate that it’s hard to even fathom
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‘14th’ Review: Ava DuVernay’s Birthright Citizenship Documentary Flounders
NYFF 2026: The spiritual follow-up to “13th” lacks its director’s signature political rigor
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‘Other Mommy’ Review: Jessica Chastain’s Terrifying Performance Proves Hell Is Mother People
The Oscar winner plays a mother protecting her daughter from an evil doppelgänger in Rob Savage’s extremely uneven, but mostly scary shocker
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‘Animals’ Review: Ben Affleck’s Netflix Thriller Has Zero Highs, Many Lows
Kerry Washington and Gillian Anderson co-star in a suspenseless kidnapping yarn that’s so derivative, it’s kind of embarrassing
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‘Avatar: Seven Havens’ Review: Wondrous, Inventive Paramount+ Spinoff Is Worth the Wait
Simplistic animation aside, the show benefits from strong writing and rich world-building
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‘Tenzing’ Review: Glossy Mountaineering Biopic Gives Them Summit to Talk About
Tom Hiddleston and Genden Phuntsok star in an old-fashioned, inspirational drama about the first successful expedition to the top of Mount Everest
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‘Cupertino’ Review: ‘The Good Wife’ Creators Triumph Again With CBS AI Watchdog Legal Drama
Mike Colter and Rachel Keller lead an excellent ensemble in broadcast TV’s best drama in years
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‘Matchbox: The Movie’ Review: Apple’s Original Action Comedy Goes Vroom Vroom, Pow, Insert Joke
John Cena, Jessica Biel and a surprisingly invested ensemble cast transform this toy commercial into a genial time-waster
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‘Below’ Review: Josh Hartnett’s Monster Drama Is a Flawed but Entertaining Netflix Binge-Watch
Family drama fans will have plenty to love, even if the plot gets overly complicated
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‘The Social Reckoning’ Review: Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Social Network’ Sequel Isn’t Worth Sharing
Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong star in a generic journalistic potboiler that underlines Sorkin’s biggest storytelling flaws
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‘Artificial’ Review: Yura Borisov and Andrew Garfield Fight and Flirt Over the Fate of Our Technological Future
NYFF 2026: Director Luca Guadagnino’s latest is a sensual, terrifying audit of our present and future apocalypse
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‘Slam Frank’ Off Broadway Review: How Do You Parody the Holocaust’s Most Beloved Young Heroine?
The new musical about a girl named Anita Frank may be the most audacious show of the year, if not the century
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‘Lanterns’ Finale Review: HBO’s Epic DC Drama Ends on a Quiet but Promising Note
Hal Jordan and John Stewart’s saga kept things a little too grounded
