Sarah Osman

Television Review: “We Live Here: The Midwest” — Family Matters

December 7, 2023
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By focusing on just a few households, rather than surveying all the available examples, this documentary succeeds at its essential (and valuable) goal — to humanize its subjects.

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Television Review: “The Curse” — Inept White Saviors

November 11, 2023
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The series’s fierce satiric take down of America’s enlightened white elite is brilliant.

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Television: “Goosebumps” — Disney’s Subpar Version of “Stranger Things”

October 29, 2023
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Goosebumps is pretty much a failure as a series because it lacks most of R.L. Stine’s entertaining alchemy.

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Television Review: “The Devil on Trial” — A Demon for a Client?

October 21, 2023
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Despite a slow first half, “The Devil on Trial” picks up speed and suggests that the truth can be more infuriating than fiction.

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Film Review: “Cassandro” — The Exótico as Champion

September 26, 2023
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Watching Cassandro become the “Liberace of Luchadors” is enthralling in itself, but we are also given the drama of seeing the protagonist wrestle with his own personal demons.

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YA Book Review: “A Tall Dark Trouble” — Witchy Doings in Cuba and Florida

September 20, 2023
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I’m happy to add the brujas of “A Tall Dark Magic” to my own personal spell book featuring the names of the witches I love.

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Film Review: “Bottoms” — A Surreal High School Lesbian Sex Farce

August 25, 2023
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The horndog plot of this wild comedy: two unpopular queer high school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation

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Film Review: “Love in Taipei” — A Beautiful Travelogue

August 23, 2023
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The fact is that “Love in Taipei”’s appeal principally lies in Taipei itself: the film doubles as an extended advertisement for the city.

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Film Review: “Red, White & Royal Blue” — A Too Magical Romance?

August 14, 2023
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Sanitized as it is, “Red, White & Royal Blue” is a sign of progress — a queer rom-com has finally entered the fairy-tale film canon.

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Television Review: “Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food” — Chow Down at Your Peril?

August 3, 2023
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All this alarming information about our food is a call to action, but “Poisoned” plays it safe by not offering any pragmatic directives or posing an activist vision.

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