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★★★★ | New fuel source: Nightmare fuel
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever is bland, boring, and offensive
You’ve got to hand it to Peter Farrelly, at least he’s consistent. His previous film, Green Book, was dumb. This one is dumber. They’re both boomer fantasies about disgraceful periods of recent American history. But most of all, they’re stories of untold millions killed, and how
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For All Mankind: Season 3 is yet another disappointment
I really love the first season of For All Mankind. Even as I acknowledge that the alternate history it presents is shallow at best. But even with all its faults, that first season has so much going for it. There’s the fantastic cast, compelling drama, and a time in
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Prehistoric Planet is a staggering feat of imagination
Produced by Jon Favreau and narrated by David Attenborough, Prehistoric Planet is probably as close as we’ll ever get to the dinosaurs in our lifetime. In that lies both its success and the occasional stumble. When the series succeeds, it soars. As a vision of life on our planet
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
(The Tragedy of Macbeth is out now on Apple TV+. It will also have a limited theatrical run starting on February 25th.) After parting directorial ways with his brother, Joel Coen teams up with William Shakespeare to adapt one of the most iconic plays in the English language. In his
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News of the World is a timely and masterful western
★★★★ | Read all about it NEWS OF THE WORLD, directed by Paul Greengrass, is a delightful and emotionally rewarding revisionist western that knows exactly the story it wants to tell. It’s a simple and down to earth film, nonetheless surprising in its substance and subtlety, as it disrobes genre conventions