MULAN is beautifully realized but saddled with a tone-deaf and culturally insensitive screenplay that only highlights how horribly staged the action setpieces are.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Season 2 of HIS DARK MATERIALS proves itself a worthy successor to GAME OF THRONES, balancing fantasy with smarts in equal measure. Lead by a brilliant Dafne Keen, the series continues to impress at every turn.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In David Fincher's MANK, Gary Oldman delivers a winning performance as a boozy loudmouth destined to write CITIZEN KANE.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ THE CROWN is still one of the best series on Netflix. But season 4 stumbles more than any previous one, even as it remains brilliant.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM is a more direct and funnier film than it's predecessor, even if it lacks the novelty this time around.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Arriving on HBO Nordic, BEARTOWN is an intensely humane look at small-town violence and generational trauma.
⭐️⭐️ HBO's latest prestige drama is handsomely made, well-acted, and utterly dull in depicting a mystery that never gets off the ground.
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Made with the best intentions, Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama is hampered by distracting fiction that detracts from the timely message.
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Clinging to the iconic legacy of Milos Forman's seminal masterpiece, this lurid and tonally incoherent adaptation feels more like bad fan fiction.
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The slow burning narrative and unnerving violence will undoubtedly turn off many. But fans of multilayered murder ballads will be in heaven.