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The enormously entertaining “A Virtuous Business” also offers a lesson in nerve and resilience that women everywhere should learn from.
There are valuable lessons here, but I are afraid that this docuseries will be overlooked among all the more enticing, and sensationalized, witchy watchings.
Was another helping of “The Platform” necessary? Maybe. But only if it was done right — and this is half-baked sci-fi horror.
“English Teacher” is a wearier, snarkier version of “Abbott Elementary”.
By not giving the material a refreshing 21st-century update, the film version of “Uglies” is an unattractive antique.
HBO’s “Industry” is an intense and highly intelligent series that just seems to keep getting better and better.
Like the iconic series it covers, “After Baywatch” is all gloss, an airbrushed look at a show about sexy lifeguards.
Director Takashi Miike’s latest is a killjoy of a film: it doesn’t want to have fun with its material, but it’s impossible to take it seriously.
What could have gone terribly wrong goes terrifically right in the hands of this creative team, culminating in a convergence of the life, the oeuvre, and our protagonist’s encroaching agony.
It is early in the season and my heart is hopeful, dear reader, that Bridgerton will re-capture its former magic.
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