Reviews
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‘Forgotten Island’ Review: A Joyful Noise That Occasionally Bleeds Into Cacophony
With influences ranging from “The Hangover” to “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” the DreamWorks animated feature is admirably ambitious
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‘Brothers’ Review: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s Apple Sitcom Is a Charming Dud
The actors co-create a meta half-hour comedy without much to laugh about
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‘S.W.A.T. Exiles’ Review: Shemar Moore’s Revamped Spinoff Feels the Loss of Original Ensemble
The drama series lands at Starz with a new cast of LAPD misfits for Hondo to bring together
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‘Heart of the Beast’ Review: Brad Pitt and His Dog Pull at Your Heartstrings in Rough Terrain
A pet and his vet tough it out through the Alaskan wilderness in David Ayer’s emotional, mostly effective survival drama
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‘The Love Hypothesis’ Review: Charming Amazon Romance Sticks to the Formula
Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman fake a relationship — for the sake of science! — in Claire Scanlon’s endearingly familiar love story
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‘Line of Fire’ Review: Palatable NBC Procedural Is Just Fine
Peter Krause and Hope Davis headline a network drama about a deeply-damaged family solving crimes and keeping secrets in DC
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‘Sense and Sensibility’ Review: A Sensational New Adaptation of Jane Austen’s Masterpiece
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles captivate the screen in Georgia Oakley’s earthy interpretation of the classic romance
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‘Up Against It’ Review: A Toothless Rom-Com Misfire With an Overqualified Antonio Banderas
TIFF 2026: There’s a confident, thorny message somewhere in Trudie Styler’s film co-starring Eva Birthistle, but it’s too shy to come out of hiding
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‘The Debut’ Review: Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti Hog the Spotlight
TIFF 2026: Writer/director Jesse Eisenberg returns with an unbelievable ode to community theater — but not the good kind of unbelievable
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‘Youth’ Review: Sharon Horgan Makes Menopause Raunchy in Excellent HBO Comedy
The “Bad Sisters” creator is back with a fresh take on the humorous hellscape of being a working divorced single mother
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‘Love of Your Life’ Review: Margaret Qualley Navigates From Rhapsody to Grief
TIFF 2026: The “Maid” and “The Substance” star plays a woman who runs away from her life in Rachel Morrison’s drama
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‘Best of the Best’ Review: If You Loved ‘Step Up 2: The Streets,’ This Is the Next Best Thing
Lena Khan’s Bollywood dance-off college comedy would be a huge crowdpleaser, if Netflix let you watch it with a crowd
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‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ Review: Netflix’s Most Grueling Season Yet
Charlie Hunnam, Rebecca Hall, Vicky Krieps and Sarah Paulson help fuel Ryan Murphy’s bloody, campy spin on the Borden murders
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‘The Traitors: New Blood’ Review: Peacock’s Emmy Darling Gets More Real Than Ever With NBC Civilian Spinoff
The “everyday American” contestants’ lack of showbiz artifice adds a fresh layer of intrigue
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‘Rescue’ Review: Harrowing Documentary Captures a Family Separation Amid Europe’s Migrant Crisis
TIFF 2026: Filmmaker Sine Plambech chronicles a family torn apart at sea while simultaneously exposing the human cost of a humanitarian emergency
