‘Swarm’ Falls Apart
Sharp, bloody satire of music fandom flies off the rails at the end
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Author: Omar Gallaga
At Long Last
With The Last of Us, HBO leapfrogs all the usual video-game adaptation pitfalls
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Scenes From The Upper-Class Struggle
Down here on Earth, we’re struggling to pay the bills, so why are the one-percenters of ‘White Lotus’ and ‘Fleishman Is In Trouble’ so compelling?
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‘Spider’ Bite
Iran-set serial-killer drama ‘Holy Spider’ transcends its procedural premise and gets under your skin
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Less Espooky
Season Two of HBO’s Spanish-language supernatural comedy is more restrained, to its detriment
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A Really Good ‘Decision’
Park Chan-wook’s dazzling new movie might be his best and most mature
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Still Fantastic
Austin’s genre film fest was back in full with a strong 2022 lineup
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‘Atlanta’ Is Back! (Again)
After a divisive third season, Donald Glover’s FX show runs its victory lap
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What Went Wrong With ‘Paper Girls’?
Amazon’s streaming comics adaptation already feels like it’s disappearing
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What is Nathan Fielder Up To In ‘The Rehearsal’?
‘Nathan for You’ creator’s bigger ambitions (and HBO-sized budget) pay off
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‘Eight Billion Genies’ Can’t Be Wrong
Amazon has already picked up the bonkers new comic already for a cross-media movie and TV adaptation
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Fortnite meets MLK
Learning about civil-rights history from the game that teaches you to “aim for the head”
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‘Made For Love’: Made for Television
HBO Max’s adaptation of Alissa Nutting’s novel slows the pace and amps up the humanity
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Not Such a ‘Bad Trip’
Netflix’s Eric André prank movie gets the set pieces right
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Looney Tunes Escapes the Censor’s Axe…So Far
Well, except for Pepe LePew
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