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4 days ago · Lance Oppenheim ’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between mocking and celebrating its incredibly unique subjects. I told a friend just now that I was reviewing a docuseries about a “Succession”-esque power struggle at a Renaissance fair, and he said, “So, a comedy?”.
4 days ago · Ezra is pulled in different directions. Young William Fitzgerald is, like Alyx Ruibal, beautifully unselfconscious onscreen, and the film gives him a lot of space. Cannavale, Byrne, and De Niro are all generous in their scenes with him; it all feels real. Ezra is a three-dimensional character.
4 days ago · Still, this is a movie in which the journey is the destination, quite literally. The low-tech method of reporting on her progress across the English Channel initially provides some laughs, then great tension. The ebullient sense of joy on the other hand is crowd-pleasing without being corny. “Young Woman and the Sea” doesn’t reinvent the ...
5 days ago · Lange’s Lillian Hall is a theater grande dame playing the charismatic matriarch in a Broadway revival of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.”. She is on shaky ground, suffering from memory ...
4 days ago · Savi Movie Review: Riveting Thriller With ‘Emo-tainment’. This is an adaptation of a French thriller, Pour Elle (2008), remade in the US as The Next Three Days (2010). With a gender flip, a la...
4 days ago · Mahendra, trapped working at his father's (Kumud Mishra) sports shop, harbours a dream of cricketing glory. Mahima, meanwhile, navigates a demanding senior doctor who bullies and belittles her ...
4 days ago · Benedict Cumberbatch’s Disturbing but Poignant ‘Eric’ Is About Much More Than a Missing Boy: TV Review. In Netflix ’s limited series “Eric,” from screenwriter Abi Morgan (“Shame ...
