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Based on an ultraviolent comic book series, "The Boys" depicts its heroes as motivated not by the desire to help humanity but by a craving to help themselves to its spoils.
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Based on an ultraviolent comic book series, "The Boys" depicts its heroes as motivated not by the desire to help humanity but by a craving to help themselves to its spoils.
After a lifetime of being told by everyone else what to do, a woman in her mid-20s uses her natural wit to build a stand-up comedy career after her Upper West Side New York City life falls apart.
"Hunters," a new Amazon series about vigilantes seeking to bring justice to Nazis hiding in 1970s America, is fixated in ways by which violence can be made weird
Amazon's new anthology series "Tales From the Loop" is beautiful, but a bit too slow of a burn.
An anthology of heart-soaring (and sometimes sinking) shorts inspired by the real life stories collected for the fabled "New York Times" column starring Anne Hathaway, Dev Patel, Andrew Scott and…
The former stars of "Project Runway" — the sturdy fashion-design competition that, too big to fail, now makes its way without them — come to Amazon Prime Video with "Making the Cut," a show that both…
An aggressively whimsical, '70s-set family comedy about a misfit group of off-brand Girl Scouts, directing duo Bert & Bertie's crowdpleaser gets where it wants to go, thanks in no small part to the…
A CIA agent made famous by one of America's best-known spy novelists fights terrorism around the world.
Based on the 2011 film 'Hanna' follows the titular 15-year-old, who was raised in total seclusion in the remote woods of Eastern Europe. Her survivalist skills are finally tested when she and her…
A clever girl runs rings around a secret agent in a mildly amusing family comedy starring Dave Bautista.
A person is "uploaded" into a digital heaven, but finds that his problems only multiply once there.
Picking up where Season 1 left off, Janelle Monáe plays a person whose eroded memory conceals an involvement at the goings-on of the cryptic Geist corporation.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt brings reassuring resolve to Patrick Vollrath's skillful, solemn, slightly hollow spin on an old-school airborne disaster movie.
Adapting a distinctive literary voice probably isn't the easiest task a first-time director can choose, so credit is due actor Clark Duke for heading very much thataway with his feature debut behind…
Series follows a package of cocaine across the Atlantic and the drug cartels that transport the illicit cargo.
A musical remake of the early-'80s rom-com teen movie romance saturated in kitschy cover songs.
This flagship AppleTV+ program takes on a number of provocative topics, including and especially gender issues emanating from the toxic swamp of the breakfast-hour television industry.
Hailee Steinfeld stars in a glossy re-imagining of Emily Dickinson's teenage years.
The first moon landing looms large in American history as a vital landmark of innovation national pride, and even the evolution of news as entertainment. The country, and likely the world, simply…
Given just how colossal the video game industry is, it’s pretty wild that more TV shows haven’t tried to delve deeper into it (except, of course, when in need of inspiration from some previously…
The arrival of a show like "Little America" is no accident. Each chapter of Apple TV Plus' new anthology series centers on the journeys of immigrants and first-generation Americans who end up in the…
Executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, this TV series follows a couple who, after the loss of their baby boy Jericho, pretend he's still alive.
"Fraggle Rock: Rock On!" executive producer John Tartaglia's dream celebrity guest list includes Celine Dion.
In the grand, hoary tradition of Disney nature documentaries, "The Elephant Queen" presents the plight of African pachyderms as a story with heartrending characters and traditional narrative arcs
Tom Hanks anchors a World War II thriller that's less a drama than a tense and sturdy diary of the logistics of battle.
The new dramedy "Little Voice" from Sara Bareilles, J.J. Abrams and Jessie Nelson is an earnest love letter to music.
Chris Evans stars here as Andy Barber, an assistant district attorney in greater Boston whose idyllic life is interrupted when his son, Jacob is accused of killing a classmate.
The seven-episode docuseries features athletes Usain Bolt, Tom Brady, LeBron James, Kelly Slater, Katie Ledecky, Shaun White and Alex Morgan going into detail about pivotal moments in their careers.
Ten minutes into “Central Park” comes the kind of true-blue Broadway group number that brings every character and chord crashing together in a burst of overt ambitions and desires. There’s Owen…
Director Bryce Dallas Howard's sweet yet modest debut feature honors dads everywhere, challenging existing notions of masculinity with humor.
As with just about any phrase that gets repeated over and over throughout the years, “representation matters” has threatened to become a benign catchall for Hollywood’s ills. But the saying is…
This earnest series further mythologizes the compelling true story of Hilde Lysiak, a young reporter who broke a local murder case when she was 9 years old.
TV has been trying to recapture the magic of "The Twilight Zone" for decades. Since it went off the air for the first time in 1964, the CBS anthology series that merged horror with humanity has been…
"Discovery" is a promising addition to the "Trek" canon if it capitalizes on the conflicts at its core, and if it embraces the ambiguity and complexity baked into its DNA.
Certainly, this represents a bit more ambitious storytelling for older kids, and perhaps a few adults with the geek gene.
Three housewives deal with domestic drama, infidelity and murder in this soapy time-jumping drama.
Abandoning a linear timeline, 'Interrogation' mines the aftermath of a gruesome murder, with a young man imprisoned, perhaps wrongfully.
Now on season 40, the castaway-themed reality TV show which pits contestants against each other in remote locations is a reliable reality juggernaut.
In theory and logline, "Tell Me a Story" is about the intertwining lives of New Yorkers that resemble some of the most famous fairy tales of yore. However, the show wants to make sure you know that…
Charlize Theron flips the script on the antihero trope as a struggling author who returns to her hometown hoping to rekindle a romance with her -- currently happily married -- high school ex.
Psychic medium Thomas John helps Chicago residents connect with lost loved ones from their past and find closure.
Each under-10-minute segment airs daily and features an anchor named James Smartwood parodying the top news stories of the day and interviewing real-world guests.
Living in oblivion as a retiree, Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) is called back to duty by the sudden appearance of Dahj, who seems connected in some way to old "Trek" pal Data.
"The Good Fight," a spinoff of "The Good Wife" and the flagship of the streaming service CBS All Access, has a slightly more jagged and splintered atmosphere than its predecessor.
Al Gore's crusade to raise awareness of global warming gets a useful platform in "An Inconvenient Truth." Davis Guggenheim's docu is a straightforward record of the lecture Gore has toured for years…
No Activity" centers around two low-level cops who have spent way too much time in a car together; two criminals who are largely kept in the dark; two dispatch workers who haven't really clicked; and…
Airplane! is what they used to call a laff-riot. Made by team which turned out Kentucky Fried Movie, this spoof of disaster features beats any other film for sheer number of comic gags.
Teaming of Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson at their best makes this film an enormously enjoyable offering, adding bite and sparkle when sentiment and seamlessness threatens to sink other parts of…
'The Mandalorian' is a grim Western of a show that's less concerned with capturing the magic of 'Star Wars' than roughing it up a bit.
Percy Jackson is still horsing around with centaurs and satyrs at Camp Half-Blood - a camp where the gods' teenage spawn learn to harness their powers.
Quack! The beloved hockey team, and Coach Bombay, is back! All of the "Mighty Ducks" movies are now available for your binge-watching pleasure on Disney Plus.
SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains mild spoilers for "Avengers: Endgame." The culmination of 10 years and more than twice as many movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, "Avengers…
This first animated treatment of one of the screen's great perennial characters is always engaging. This rambunctious, visually arresting, occasionally poignant musical adventure still has swinging…
Two teens find just what they needed in this unabashedly charismatic, chaste and charming romance on Disney Plus.
The number 4 typically doesn't bode well for film franchises, which understandably has quite a few "Toy Story" fans feeling nervous. When it comes to constructing dramatic arcs across multiple…
Out of the vast universe of nature documentaries, I don't think I'm alone in finding films about life under the sea to occupy a special place. The very fact that they exist, of course, is amazing…
A snapshot of an earlier sense of optimism, Lin-Manuel Miranda's historical hip-hop musical offers fresh resonance for a divided America.
In this Disney-fied adaptation of the popular YA novel about a 12-year-old criminal mastermind, the title character is no longer bad.
Han Solo's backstory is revealed in this "Star Wars" prequel starring Alden Ehrenreich.
An unprecedented look behind- the-scenes at the creation of "Frozen 2."
Each episode will explore a different facet of the first live-action "Star Wars" show through interviews, new footage, and roundtable conversations hosted by director Jon Favreau.
Later this year? — Nov. 19, 2020, to be exact — will mark the 25th anniversary of the premiere of “Toy Story,” the first feature from Pixar. In 1995, that movie launched the digital-animation…
Adding a playful time-travel element to the ongoing saga, 'X-Men Days of Futures Past' brings two generations of mutantkind together in a story that toggles cleverly between the political tumult of…
"Elephant," narrated by Meghan Markle, follows a herd of elephants as they spend eight months trekking 1,000 miles back and forth across the Kalahari Desert in search of water.
In "Watchmen," based on the 1980s DC Comics series whose popularity demands adaptation, Damon Lindelof ambitiously tackles how individual people are wrecked by history
A trio of 'Drag Race' alums travels to the Bible Belt and other conservative pockets of the country giving drag makeovers to local LGBTQ and straight residents, in preparation for a live show that…
Going forward, what will Hollywood do when it needs a Kevin Spacey type? The disgraced Oscar winner is precisely the actor a movie like "Bad Education" calls for: Cory Finley's audacious second…
For as long as there have been romantic comedies, there have been erstwhile lovers making convoluted bets and flirty deals with so little basis in reality that they might as well be science fiction…
A single performer's double act is among the showier maneuvers that can be attempted on film. There's the technical aspect: Getting one actor, twice, into the same frame — or cutting to fool the mind…
Host John Oliver devotes each weekly episode to breaking down one issue and explaining it to viewers, including an impassioned argument for defunding the police after the death of George Floyd, in…
The world of the Roy yields a meaningful understanding not merely of the lust for power but of what that power can do, and what privileges it strips away.
Return to the Land of Ooo and beyond in Adventure Time: Distant Lands. These four breakout specials explore the unseen corners of the world with characters both familiar and brand new.
Framed as a document of Schumer's growing family, "Expecting Amy" is most intriguing as a "Truth or Dare"-style examination of fame, a look at the act and life of a comedian coming into conflict.
The ongoing anti-LGBTQ purge in the Russian republic of Chechnya is exposed in David France's harrowing but heart-filling documentary.
Up-and-coming writer Arabella's carefree existence comes to a violent end when she is sexually assaulted in a nightclub and is forced to reevaluate her life, her career, friends and family.
The newly released novel "Death in Her Hands," by Ottessa Moshfegh, concerns a woman living just at the point where solitude becomes seclusion. Her imagination captured by a scrap of paper suggesting…
HBO repurposes the character best known from the Raymond Burr-led legal drama of the 1950s and 1960s, depicting him both before his legal career and — crucially — before the predecessor series, an…
The new reality competition series is a celebration of ballroom culture and shines a gorgeous, sleek spotlight on its fearsome dancers, who have traditionally had to shine bright in dusky clubs.
Anna Kendrick stars as Darby, a young woman whose perfectly rom-com career rise in the art museum and auction-house world in New York City is not matched by confidence or self-knowledge in her…
Elmo and the "Sesame Street" welcome guests and play games, with Elmo asking his parents if he may "be excused to go do Elmo's talk show."
The ambitious limited series, also starring Rose Byrne as Gloria Steinem, paints an impressive historical picture while struggling to get a grip on its central characters.
Late in the run of an episode of "Little Fires Everywhere," Hulu's new literary adaptation, our attention is divided between two women in different situations, both of them precarious and pushing…
No matter the destination, there are inevitabilities built into "boy meets girl" stories. They meet, they flirt, they kiss, they fight, they fall in love. But the best of them dig past the surface to…
Billing itself with a cheeky asterisk as "an occasionally true story," Hulu's "The Great" immediately frees itself of the usual period drama obligation to connect the historical dots. Instead, it…
The show, to its credit, looks great — set in an endless-summer Brooklyn of the mind, where bar, coffee shop, and vinyl purveyor, all scruffily but appealingly indie, are the landmarks of note.
Picking up immediately after the events of the first season finale — in which Annie confronted one of the negative commenters on her article and smashed the window of his car — the second season sees…
There are far worse places to be stuck for eternity than Palm Springs. Like Punxsutawney, the town Bill Murray can't escape in "Groundhog Day," for example. So many copycat time-loop movies have come…
In this 'Love, Simon' spinoff, Victor (Michael Cimino) is also closeted, but as he writes to the now legendary Simon via Instagram DM, their vast differences are laid bare.
Host Padma Lakshmi speaks on activism, the shortcomings of legacy food media, and why this show is her most personal yet.
A coming-of-age comedy based on Ramy Youssef's life as a first-generation Egyptian American trying to balance his Muslim and American identities.
The degree to which the mockumentary format popularized by “The Office” has reinvented television comedy is hard to overstate. It’s not merely the direct-to-camera “confessional”-style interviews…
Shirley Jackson was a real person, a writer best known for her twisted short story "The Lottery," although the version presented in Josephine Decker's "Shirley" feels more like a character from one…
When asked about the founding of Formula E, a motorsport circuit that uses only electric cars, its current leader, a former Spanish politician named Alejandro Agag, lights a stogie and tells the…
The experiment known as Biosphere 2 may be best remembered now — when remembered at all — as something that spawned "Bio-Dome," the godawful 1996 comedy that is nonetheless many people's favorite…
Produced in part by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell's Gloria Sanchez Productions, Liz Feldman's black comedy works hard to balance comedic impulses with bleak subject matter.
Shira Haas?portrays Esther "Esty" Shapiro. "Unorthodox" is adapted from Deborah Feldman's 2012 best-selling memoir "Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots."
To love classic Hollywood and live in the world at the same time is hardly the greatest of conundrums, but a conundrum it is. It means being transported by the craft and the art of films made under…
Emmy winners Toni Collette and Merritt Wever are the big names in this limited series, playing police officers who team up to solve the case of a serial rapist. But the first hour — and the viewer's…
Helena Bonham Carter, Charles Dance, Tobias Menzies and more join the cast of Netflix's royal drama.
When movies work their magic, the screen becomes a kind of mirror, reflecting dimensions of our identities or experience back to us in profound and emotional ways. When the characters aren't so…
Spike Lee explores the twin traumas of the war in Vietnam and racial injustice at home in an ambitious but uneven adventure movie committed to expanding history.
Adapted from the 2017 graphic novel by Greg Rucka (who wrote the screenplay), the movie is about a team of crime-fighting immortals whose flesh can repair itself from bullet wounds and knife stabs…
This new adaptation of Ann M. Martin's beloved book series is as warm as it is empathetic.
'Stateless' debuted in Australia in March, centers on three characters (a flight attendant, a guard and a refugee) whose lives intersect at the fictional Barton immigration detention center; many of…
A documentary about meeting the iconic television astrologer for the first time at his home just outside of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” is It stars Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams as a dreamy-doofus Icelandic pop duo called Fire Saga, who long to compete in (and win) the Eurovision…
In the last two years, a series of scalding and essential documentaries — “Leaving Neverland,” “Surviving R. Kelly,” “Untouchable,” “On the Record,” “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” — have shined a…
That doctors have difficult jobs is among the points TV has made most forcefully throughout the medium's existence. The genre has long since entered its baroque period, larding on helicopter crashes…
Hasan Minhaj brings his comedic and (often times hilarious) perspective to politics and culture in his series.