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Television

WATCH CLOSELY: “The Midnight Club” — Late Nights

The Midnight Club contains all the ingredients necessary for a perfect spooky season binge: a Gothic mansion, extremely disaffected yet self-aware young people, moody cinematography, and gorgeous interiors, including the coolest library you’ve ever seen.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: horror thriller, Iman Benson, Leah Fong, Mike Flanagan, Peg Aloi, The Midnight Club

Television/Music Review: Next at the Kennedy Center — A Joni Mitchell Songbook, on PBS

I put Joni Mitchell on a short list of the most remarkable pop music artists of the ’60s and early ’70s. Longevity of excellence isn’t the point here, just peak incandescence.

By: Daniel Gewertz Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review, Rock, Television Tagged: A Joni Mitchell Songbook, Daniel Gewertz, Vince Mendoza

Television Review: Guillermo del Toro’s “Cabinet of Curiosities” — Well Worth Opening

This is a terrific start for a series that may live up to the promise of The Twilight Zone: it will take you “on a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.”

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Cabinet of Curiosities, Guillermo Del Toro

Television Review: “The School for Good and Evil” — Too Complicated for its Own Good

Based on the YA series by Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil offers little that is new about the adventures of discontented adolescents.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: charlize-theron, Kerry Washington, Paul Feig, Sarah Osman, Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

Television Review: “Rosaline” — Burlesquing the Bard’s “Star-Cross’d Lovers”

Every few years a smart teen rom-com comes along that deftly puts a modern, and pleasingly iconoclastic, spin on a classic piece of literature.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Henry Hunter Hall, Hulu, Kaitlyn Dever, Karen Maine, Kyle Allen, Romeo & Juliet, Rosaline, Spencer Stevenson, William-Shakespeare

Film Review: William Kentridge’s Wondrous “Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot”

The nine-part film series focuses on the artist in his studio in Johannesburg. We see William Kentridge as he draws, paints, designs, paces the floor, and thinks out loud — among other things.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Television Tagged: David D'Arcy, Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot, William Kentridge

Culture Commentary: World War II Was a Race War, and It Isn’t Over

It isn’t exactly news that the genocide of Native Americans was a model for Hitler, but it hit with fresh force in The U.S. and the Holocaust.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Television Tagged: antisemitism, Jon Garelick, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein, The U.S. and the Holocaust

Television Review: Season Three of “Ramy” — Spreading the Drama Around

Ramy’s drama takes a backseat to those of his relatives and friends, and that ends up expanding the reach and power of the series.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Bella Hadid, Ramy, Ramy Youssef, Sarah Osman

Television Review: Disney’s Live-Action “Pinocchio” — A Necessary Remake

There are cringe-worthy moments as well as scenes of mesmerizing beauty in Disney’s live-action Pinocchio. But I’ll go against the critical grain and argue, for several small reasons, and for one big one, that it was necessary to make it.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Television Tagged: Disney, Pinocchio, Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks

WATCH CLOSELY: Post-Emmy Recommendations

Television is the new art cinema, chock full of superb examples of storytelling across multiple genres.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Better Call Saul, Emmy Awards, Ozark, Peg Aloi, Severance, Succession, The White Lotus, Under the Banner of Heaven, Yellowjackets

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