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‘The White Lotus’ Review: Scathingly Good Acting Helps Rescue Thailand-Set Season 3 of…
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Critic’s Notebook: Tom Brady’s Super Bowl Announcing Debut Is Proof of Both Potential and Pitfalls
Forced to fill dead air during the Eagles' dominant victory over the Chiefs, Brady flaunted his singular qualifications while also, at times, proving his detractors right.
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‘The Z-Suite’ Review: Lauren Graham Gets Stranded in Tubi’s Tiresome Generation Gap Comedy
Nico Santos also stars in the half-hour series about a group of underqualified Gen Z social media managers who take over an ad agency from its inept Gen X leaders.
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‘Clean Slate’ Review: Laverne Cox and George Wallace Lead Amazon’s Warm, Well-Meaning, Not Especially Funny Comedy
Norman Lear is credited as an executive producer on the single-cam series about a trans woman reuniting with her father in their Alabama hometown.
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‘The White Lotus’ Review: Scathingly Good Acting Helps Rescue Thailand-Set Season 3 of Mike White’s HBO Series From Fatigue
Walton Goggins, Parker Posey, Carrie Coon, Patrick Schwarzenegger and Natasha Rothwell lead the ensemble cast for the latest installment of the anthology.
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Critic’s Notebook: Tom Brady’s Super Bowl Announcing Debut Is Proof of Both Potential and Pitfalls
Forced to fill dead air during the Eagles' dominant victory over the Chiefs, Brady flaunted his singular qualifications while also, at times, proving his detractors right.
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‘The Z-Suite’ Review: Lauren Graham Gets Stranded in Tubi’s Tiresome Generation Gap Comedy
Nico Santos also stars in the half-hour series about a group of underqualified Gen Z social media managers who take over an ad agency from its inept Gen X leaders.
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‘Clean Slate’ Review: Laverne Cox and George Wallace Lead Amazon’s Warm, Well-Meaning, Not Especially Funny Comedy
Norman Lear is credited as an executive producer on the single-cam series about a trans woman reuniting with her father in their Alabama hometown.
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‘André Is an Idiot’ Review: An Unexpectedly Funny and Poignant Documentary About Life, Cancer and Colonoscopies
In his Sundance audience award winner, director Tony Benna follows his friend André Ricciardi from cancer diagnosis to treatment as he muses on mortality, family and at least one bad choice.
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Critic’s Notebook: The Wildly Versatile 2025 Grammy Awards Delivered Just What It Needed To
There was something for everyone at the Trevor Noah-hosted ceremony, from heartfelt Los Angeles fire tributes to astounding musical performances to that long-overdue album of the year prize for Beyoncé.
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‘Deaf President Now!’ Review: Davis Guggenheim and Nyle DiMarco’s Doc Gives the Deaf Rights Movement a Compelling Spotlight
Premiering at Sundance, the film looks at the protests surrounding the hiring of a new president at Gallaudet University in 1988.
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‘The Alabama Solution’ Review: Powerful New Doc From ‘The Jinx’ Duo Investigates Injustices in Alabama Prisons
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system allegedly designed for rehabilitation.
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‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Review: Disney+’s New Web-Slinging Adventure Offers Throwback Charm but Little Innovation
Jeff Trammell created Marvel Animation's new 'Spider-Man' adventure, featuring the voices of Hudson Thames as Peter Parker and Colman Domingo as Norman Osborn.
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‘Free Leonard Peltier’ Review: Doc About Imprisoned Indigenous Activist Is Timelier Than Ever, but Leaves Too Much Unexamined
Jesse Short Bull and David France's documentary tells Peltier's story all the way through President Joe Biden's commutation.
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‘Predators’ Review: A Fascinating, Frustrating Doc Examines the Complicated Legacy of ‘To Catch a Predator’
Director David Osit interviews host Chris Hansen and several of the predator-luring decoys as he questions whether the reality show did the right thing in the wrong ways.
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‘Folktales’ Review: ‘Jesus Camp’ Directors Head to Norway for a Frigid, Furry and Very Sweet Coming-of-Age Doc
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady follow three students at a Norwegian "folk school," where students learn survival skills and dog sledding.
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‘Paradise’ Review: Sterling K. Brown Investigates a Presidential Murder in Hulu’s Twist-Driven ‘This Is Us’ Reunion
Dan Fogelman created the eight-episode drama, which co-stars James Marsden and Julianne Nicholson and isn't exactly the series it initially seems to be.
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‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Review: Paul Reubens Explores Pee-wee Herman, and His Own Identity, in Revealing HBO Doc
Culled from 40 hours of interviews and thousands of hours of archival footage, Matt Wolf's doc gives Paul Reubens his own posthumous spotlight.
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‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ Review: Latest Ukraine Doc From ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ Helmer Packs a Visceral, Existential Punch
Mstyslav Chernov returns to Sundance with a new story of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the slow, deadly effort to liberate a tiny village.
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Critic’s Notebook: By Turns Predictable and Unhinged, Inauguration Tells a Tale of Two Trumps
The 2025 inauguration of Donald Trump featured a Comic-Con-esque official speech, followed by a longer, less filtered address to supporters.
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