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‘Haunted Hotel’ Review: Netflix’s Blandly Pleasant Ghost Cartoon Struggles to Leave a Mark
Dan Harmon serves as executive producer on an animated comedy starring Will Forte, Eliza Coupe and Skyler Gisondo, from 'Rick and Morty' alum Matt Roller.
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‘Black Rabbit’ Review: Jude Law and Jason Bateman Lead Netflix’s Blandly Bleak Antihero Drama
Mix 'The Bear,' 'Uncut Gems' and a lot of 'Ozark' and you get this eight-part limited series about two bumbling brothers trying to set things right in Brooklyn.
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Critic’s Notebook: A Flat Nate Bargatze and a Failed Time-Saving Gag Upstage Worthy Winners at the Emmy Awards
The Boys & Girls Clubs of America had a roller-coaster night as 'The Pitt,' 'The Studio' and 'Adolescence' dominated.
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‘aka Charlie Sheen’ Review: Netflix Doc Offers a Reflective but Exhausting Look at the Actor’s Stardom and Notoriety
Andrew Renzi's two-part docuseries features Jon Cryer, Chuck Lorre, Denise Richards, Sean Penn and many more friends and loved ones.
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‘The Girlfriend’ Review: Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke Bring Their A-Game to Amazon’s Amusingly Nasty Thriller
Laurie Davidson and Waleed Zuaiter also star in the six-part miniseries about a wealthy gallerist who grows suspicious of the young woman dating her beloved son.
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‘The Lowdown’ Review: Sterlin Harjo and Ethan Hawke Reunite for FX’s Low-Key Tulsa Noir Charmer
Hawke plays a journalist and used book dealer investigating a murder that might not be a murder in the Oklahoma-set comic mystery.
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‘The Paper’ Review: Fresh Setting and First-Rate Ensemble Help Peacock’s ‘The Office’ Spinoff File a Solid First Season
Greg Daniels and Michael Koman transplant Oscar from Scranton to Toledo for a 10-episode comedy starring Domhnall Gleeson as the new editor of a struggling newspaper.
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‘Task’ Review: Mark Ruffalo Leads Unrelentingly Glum HBO Crime Drama From ‘Mare of Easttown’ Creator
Brad Ingelsby returns to suburban Pennsylvania for the story of a grieving FBI agent investigating a string of robberies perpetrated against a local biker gang.
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‘Long Story Short’ Review: Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s ‘BoJack Horseman’ Follow-Up Is a Funny, Heartfelt Exploration of Family, Memory and Jewishness
Ben Feldman, Max Greenfield and Abbi Jacobson voice siblings coping with a lifetime of tsuris in this Netflix animated dramedy.
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‘Hostage’ Review: Julie Delpy and Suranne Jones Deserve Better Than Netflix’s Generic Political Thriller
Matt Charman follows 'Treason' with another five-part London-set show, this one tracking a high-stakes summit between the British prime minister and the French president.
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‘The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox’ Review: Hulu Miniseries Is a Savvy, Compelling Take on True Crime
Grace Van Patten stars as the American student infamously and falsely accused of murdering her roommate, in a drama executive produced by Monica Lewinsky and Knox herself.
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Critic’s Notebook: ‘And Just Like That’ Series Finale Sees Carrie Bradshaw Go Out With a Whimper
After a season that wasted potential and time, the final episode of HBO Max's 'Sex and the City' sequel series forced our heroine to image a future without male companionship. Yawn.
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‘The Rainmaker’ Review: USA’s John Grisham Adaptation Ditches the Book’s Cynicism for More Frivolous Pleasures
John Slattery, Lana Parrilla and Milo Callaghan lead this take on the 1995 bestseller about the U.S. legal and healthcare industries, brought to the big screen by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997.
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‘Butterfly’ Review: Daniel Dae Kim Is a Superspy Superdad in Amazon’s Blandly Sweet Thriller
Nine years after faking his own death, a former operative comes out of hiding to save his daughter, now a gifted assassin, in this South Korea-set series.
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‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ Review: Starz Prequel Is a Richly Rendered, Delectably Romantic Treat
Years before Jamie meets Claire, his lovelorn parents defy their rival clans in 18th century Scotland while hers strike up a passionate connection through letters during World War I.
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‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Review: Jenna Ortega Gets Lost Amid Addams Family Mayhem in Overcrowded Netflix Return
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have the protagonist solving murders once again, as the two-part sophomore season kicks off.
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