Sarah Osman

Television Review: “Death and Other Details” — Adrift at Sea

January 18, 2024
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Mocking the wealthy with a homicidal intrigue tossed in doesn’t always make for a fun watch.

Film Review: “Bitconned” — Digital Scamming

January 5, 2024
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In terms of documentary-subjects-you’ll-love-to-hate, “Bitconned”‘s reptilian Ray Trapani is at the top of the line of bottom feeders.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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