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‘Long Bright River’ Review: Amanda Seyfried Stars in a Philly-Set Peacock Mystery That…
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‘Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror’ Review: An Affectionate, Personal Look at the Cult Movie Phenomenon
Linus O'Brien, the son of 'Rocky Horror' creator Richard O'Brien, assembles an impressive talking-head cast from the musical and film to discuss an unlikely 50-year trajectory.
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‘The Python Hunt’ Review: One Invasive Species Pursues Another in a Quirky Doc About Snake-Chasing Florida Tourists
Xander Robin's SXSW-premiering documentary is like a real-life version of Peacock's 'Killing It,' which makes more sense if you've seen Peacock's 'Killing It.'
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‘The Age of Disclosure’ Review: Dan Farah’s Polished Doc Legitimizes Unverifiable Theories About UFOs
Politicians, military officials and scientists discuss non-human intelligence and when it will be time to tell the world the truth in this doc premiering at SXSW.
‘André Is an Idiot’ Review: An Unexpectedly Funny and Poignant Documentary About Life, Cancer and Colonoscopies
In his Sundance audience award winner, director Tony Benna follows his friend André Ricciardi from cancer diagnosis to treatment as he muses on mortality, family and at least one bad choice.
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Critic’s Notebook: The Wildly Versatile 2025 Grammy Awards Delivered Just What It Needed To
There was something for everyone at the Trevor Noah-hosted ceremony, from heartfelt Los Angeles fire tributes to astounding musical performances to that long-overdue album of the year prize for Beyoncé.
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‘Deaf President Now!’ Review: Davis Guggenheim and Nyle DiMarco’s Doc Gives the Deaf Rights Movement a Compelling Spotlight
Premiering at Sundance, the film looks at the protests surrounding the hiring of a new president at Gallaudet University in 1988.
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‘The Alabama Solution’ Review: Powerful New Doc From ‘The Jinx’ Duo Investigates Injustices in Alabama Prisons
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system allegedly designed for rehabilitation.
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‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Review: Disney+’s New Web-Slinging Adventure Offers Throwback Charm but Little Innovation
Jeff Trammell created Marvel Animation's new 'Spider-Man' adventure, featuring the voices of Hudson Thames as Peter Parker and Colman Domingo as Norman Osborn.
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‘Free Leonard Peltier’ Review: Doc About Imprisoned Indigenous Activist Is Timelier Than Ever, but Leaves Too Much Unexamined
Jesse Short Bull and David France's documentary tells Peltier's story all the way through President Joe Biden's commutation.
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‘Predators’ Review: A Fascinating, Frustrating Doc Examines the Complicated Legacy of ‘To Catch a Predator’
Director David Osit interviews host Chris Hansen and several of the predator-luring decoys as he questions whether the reality show did the right thing in the wrong ways.
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‘Folktales’ Review: ‘Jesus Camp’ Directors Head to Norway for a Frigid, Furry and Very Sweet Coming-of-Age Doc
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady follow three students at a Norwegian "folk school," where students learn survival skills and dog sledding.
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‘Paradise’ Review: Sterling K. Brown Investigates a Presidential Murder in Hulu’s Twist-Driven ‘This Is Us’ Reunion
Dan Fogelman created the eight-episode drama, which co-stars James Marsden and Julianne Nicholson and isn't exactly the series it initially seems to be.
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‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Review: Paul Reubens Explores Pee-wee Herman, and His Own Identity, in Revealing HBO Doc
Culled from 40 hours of interviews and thousands of hours of archival footage, Matt Wolf's doc gives Paul Reubens his own posthumous spotlight.
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‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ Review: Latest Ukraine Doc From ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ Helmer Packs a Visceral, Existential Punch
Mstyslav Chernov returns to Sundance with a new story of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the slow, deadly effort to liberate a tiny village.
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Critic’s Notebook: By Turns Predictable and Unhinged, Inauguration Tells a Tale of Two Trumps
The 2025 inauguration of Donald Trump featured a Comic-Con-esque official speech, followed by a longer, less filtered address to supporters.
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‘The Hunting Party’ Review: NBC’s Serial Killer Procedural Is a Deadly Bore
Generic serial killers escape from a generic supermax prison and are pursued by a generic team of investigators in this drama starring Melissa Roxburgh.
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‘The Couple Next Door’ Review: Sam Heughan Smolders in Starz’s Ludicrous Polyamory Thriller
Eleanor Tomlinson, Alfred Enoch and Jessica De Gouw join the 'Outlander' star in this six-episode chronicle of steamy, eventually violent misadventures.
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‘American Primeval’ Review: Betty Gilpin Leads Netflix’s Relentlessly Brutal Peter Berg-Helmed Western Miniseries
Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.
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‘Shifting Gears’ Review: Tim Allen and Kat Dennings Are Stuck in Neutral in ABC’s Family Sitcom
Yep, it's another story of a conservative father and a somewhat more liberal daughter having to end a lengthy estrangement.
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