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‘Universal Basic Guys’ Review: Fox’s Good-Natured Bro Toon Is Too Familiar to Feel Fresh
The animated comedy follows two South Jersey brothers through a series of wacky adventures funded by an income pilot program they were enrolled in after losing their factory jobs.
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‘The Luckiest Man in America’ Review: Paul Walter Hauser Stars in a Game Show Drama With More Style Than Substance
Samir Oliveros' film depicts the fateful 1984 appearance on 'Press Your Luck' by ice-cream truck driver Michael Larson, who would win the largest prize in the show's history.
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TIFF 2024: Read THR’s Reviews of the Movies Screening at the Toronto Film Festival (Updating)
The Hollywood Reporter critics weigh in on this year’s crop of titles, from biopics to documentaries, sweeping epics to intimate character studies, tear-jerking dramas to laugh-out-loud comedies.
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‘The Perfect Couple’ Review: Nicole Kidman Plays Yet Another Miserable Rich Lady in Netflix’s Turgid Murder Mystery
A young couple's wedding weekend in Nantucket is derailed by the discovery of a dead body, in the Susanne Bier-directed adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's novel.
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‘English Teacher’ Review: FX’s Dryly Hilarious Public-School Comedy Makes the Grade
Brian Jordan Alvarez created and stars in the half-hour series about an idealistic but frequently misguided gay educator working in suburban Austin.
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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Review: Season 2 of Amazon’s Fantasy Prequel Is Too Epic for Its Own Good
As Sauron continues fixating on precious jewelry, all of Middle-earth ramps up toward a world-changing, era-defining showdown between good and evil.
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Critics’ Conversation: Real Life Was Riveting — Summer TV, Not So Much
Politics and the Paris Olympics provided lots of drama, but despite some exceptions — sexy investment bankers, sexier vampires, litigious elves and Muslim punks — the scripted landscape was lackluster.
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‘Pachinko’ Review: Apple TV+’s Ambitious Family Epic Returns for a Gorgeously Emotional Season 2
Soo Hugh's adaptation of Min Jin Lee's novel follows Sunja and her family through World War II and its aftermath, while in 1989 Solomon plots against a professional nemesis.
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‘Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Review: Paramount+’s Winning ‘Mutant Mayhem’ Sequel
The cast of the 2023 film return for an animated series that follows the heroes as they battle an army of mechazoids unleashed by a scientist with an anti-mutant agenda.
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‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Review: Amazon’s Dark Knight Series Entertains Though Rarely Soars
Hamish Linklater leads the voice cast in this latest take on Gotham City's masked crime-fighter, a 1940s noir-infused animated adventure developed by Bruce Timm ('Batman: The Animated Series').
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‘The Decameron’ Review: Zosia Mamet and Tony Hale in Netflix’s Fitfully Funny Black Plague Comedy
This series loosely inspired by the Boccaccio classic revolves around a group of nobles and servants waiting out the Black Plague in 14th-century Tuscany.
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‘Omnivore’ Review: Noma’s René Redzepi Hosts an Apple TV+ Food Docuseries That’s as Thought-Provoking as It Is Hunger-Inducing
Each episode of the globetrotting show focuses on a single key ingredient to consider the way it's shaped our history, our society and perhaps our future.
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