Television
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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The series’s fierce satiric take down of America’s enlightened white elite is brilliant.
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The cultural critic’s wrestling with the compromises that the pleasures of mass culture inevitably demand is heartfelt. In a word, it’s normal.
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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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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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Less is more in Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”.
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Pro Wrestling Company Ohio Valley Wrestling is the little train that could and knows that it can.
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This limited series is not easy to watch, but “Painkillers” should be considered indispensable viewing because of the light it shines on the amoral face of corporate greed.
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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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The Out-Laws is another mild diversion spat out of Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison factory.
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