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WATCH CLOSELY: “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” is Deliciously Dark and Witchy

October 26, 2018
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is not as artful as a lot of what’s on offer now, but this pleasing series kicks off the Hallowe’en season with a bang.

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WATCH CLOSELY: Netflix’s “Dark” — Childhood Horrors, Revisited

August 20, 2018
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Dark is not a German version of Stranger Things; its historical vision is distinctive.

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Television Review: “Wild Wild Country” — Scruffily Corporatized Love-in

April 25, 2018
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Wild Wild Country details the insane clusterfuck that results when faith, fundamentalism, and media hype intersect.

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WATCH CLOSELY: The End of the F***ing World — Coming-of-Age Nihilism

February 6, 2018
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The show is tightly put together, brilliantly balancing black humor with just the right amount of dramatic pathos.

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Film Review: “Chasing Trane” — Telling the Story of a Jazz Legend

December 20, 2017
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This documentary about John Coltrane serves up skillful, sensitive storytelling and an appropriate sense of reverence.

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Television Review: “Wormwood” — Errol Morris’ Brilliant Bricolage

December 20, 2017
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Wormwood is full of secrets, some revealed, some tantalizingly unknowable.

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Film Review: “Casting JonBenet” — Of Crime and Psychodrama

June 3, 2017
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In this attempt to get at the ‘truth,’ the actors don’t play the roles, the roles play the actors.

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TV Review: “3 Mics”—Neal Brennan’s Innovative Stand Up

March 5, 2017
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Neal Brennan’s mix-and-match of styles manages to combine deadpan sensibility with shocking poignancy.

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Television Review: “The Get Down” — Netflix’s Flashy Hip Hop Melodrama

August 20, 2016
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The Get Down has the tragic resonance it deserves, though Baz Luhrmann pulls back from confronting the narrative’s political implications.

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TV Review: “Master of None”—Aziz Ansari’s Masterful New Show

November 17, 2015
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Master of None is an exercise in emotionally intelligent storytelling that delves into the real lives of its characters.

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