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If you only have heard the name David Frost associated with the award-winning play & film FROST/NIXON, you need to see the new MSNBC six-part documentary series DAVID FROST VS. airing on [...]

Florence Pugh is one of our greatest actresses and her new film THUNDERBOLTS* proves it. She not only deepens the character of assassin Yelena Belova, whom we’ve seen several times now in the [...]

You’d think that a number of reasons would have stopped a sequel from being made of 2016’s modestly successful actioner THE ACCOUNTANT. First off, THE ACCOUNTANT 2 arrives almost a decade late. [...]

This may very well be the shortest review I’ve ever written for a film that I think is going to be one of the most talked about and honored films of 2025. I don’t want to say too much, and I fear [...]

Actress Britt Lower has made a name for herself as one of our more compelling actresses and it’s amazing how much she does with her reactions on screen. The use of her eyes, her body language, [...]

Rare is the television series that hits a high-water mark in its seventh season, but that may be true for the newest efforts from the British sci-fi series BLACK MIRROR. It just debuted on [...]

Which head will roll? That seems to be the hook for so many viewers, let alone critics and journalists, of the darkly comic HBO series THE WHITE LOTUS. Created, written, and directed by Mike [...]

I’m not overstating matters by telling you that the new, four-part Netflix miniseries ADOLESCENCE not only advances the art of filmed storytelling, but it shrewdly indicts bro culture, unchecked [...]

Who doesn’t love a good spy thriller? From James Bond to Jason Bourne to Jack Ryan, it might be the most venerable type of genre film in show biz these days. Each year it seems more and more [...]

The late, great Bette Davis once said, “Old age ain’t no place for sissies.” THE RULE OF JENNY PEN, the new film from New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft proves that adage long before any [...]