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.
The series’s fierce satiric take down of America’s enlightened white elite is brilliant.
The cultural critic’s wrestling with the compromises that the pleasures of mass culture inevitably demand is heartfelt. In a word, it’s normal.
Goosebumps is pretty much a failure as a series because it lacks most of R.L. Stine’s entertaining alchemy.
Despite a slow first half, “The Devil on Trial” picks up speed and suggests that the truth can be more infuriating than fiction.
Less is more in Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”.
Pro Wrestling Company Ohio Valley Wrestling is the little train that could and knows that it can.
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.
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.
Arts Feature: According to Our Critics — The Best That TV Offered in 2023
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