Bolstered by an outstanding, memorable leading performance from Colman Domingo, the biopic Rustin gives a prominent civil rights activist their proper due
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All the Light We Cannot See, a big budget, limited series adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s bestselling novel, is a maudlin, relentless tearing at the heartstrings delivered with maximum bombast.
The Killer is a gleefully nasty, amoral, and wildly entertaining thriller that only a true filmmaking master like director David Fincher could provide.
Although it doesn’t always pay off in ways one hopes, the darkly comedic Pain Hustlers pairs a tried and true formula to a specific, real life horror that hasn’t been …
Nyad is an inspirational and empowering sports drama that balances traditional (but well done) crowd pleaser tropes with a healthy dose of edge and realness.
A basic and not altogether engrossing oral history of a possible pair of demonic possessions, The Devil on Trial has a somewhat misleading title.
Filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix series, The Fall of the House of Usher, is a deliriously gory and ghoulish seasonal offering that adeptly straddles the line between the silly and …
Pretentious, plodding, and only enjoyable in the sense that it’s so overblown it contains moments of unintentional levity, the limp procedural thriller Reptile is trash that aspires to be high …
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Painkiller EP Eric Newman & author Barry Meier on dramatizing the origin of the opioid crisis
We spoke to Eric Newman & Barry Meier about Netflix’s Painkiller and the origin of the opioid crisis, and the pain caused by OxyContin.
The Deepest Breath is a documentary that will work best among those who haven’t seen a lot of nonfiction filmmaking before. Not that this is a bad thing.