Those in the mood for a twisty mystery with an abundance of narrative creativity and a solid sense of humour will easily be taken by the second season of Apple TV+’s The Afterparty, even if it is slightly less accomplished and engaging than its initial outing.
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Making the most out of its perfectly paired leads, Platonic is a satisfying summer comedy that carves its own path rather than adhering to convention.
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie finds a famous actor looking back on their unusual life and circumstances with a refreshing amount of candour and cutting self reflection.
Although it boasts two of the hottest stars in Hollywood today and a ton of talent behind the camera, Ghosted is little more than some of the most expensive background noise ever created.
A worthy and often hilarious follow-up to its ambitious and playful predecessor, the second season of Schmigadoon! changes up the types of musical movie and theatre conventions it originally sent up without sacrificing any of the heart, humour, or loveable strangeness.
An inorganically convoluted, thoroughly silly, and toneless mess, Tetris – the story of how the famous falling block video game made its way from communist Russia to the rest of the world in the 1980s – has a lot of things wrong with it.
Mythic Quest star Imani Hakim is one of the best parts of the Apple TV+ series. As Dana, Hakim has been a highlight since season one.
All the twists and carefully calculated double crosses in the world can’t save the con artist picture Sharper from being anything more than blandly passible.
Almost one year removed from the slap heard round the world at the Oscars, Smith shows up in a film that’s just as brutally violent in tone as the very thing he turned down years prior for being too “vengeful”, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.
The go-for-broke yuletide musical Spirited is an overstretched and not particularly funny updating of a seasonal classic, despite the game involvement of a talented cast.