Can the Dama Resurrect the Old Negan?
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 2. After a two-year hiatus, The Walking Dead: Dead City returned to AMC last week. The premiere episode saw Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and…
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‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: “It’s in the Air”
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 5. With Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Dina (Isabela Merced) on the same page in terms of revenge and their feelings for each other, The Last…
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Colter Shaw Finally Learns What Happened to His Father, but What’s Next After That Bombshell Reveal?
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for the Tracker Season 2 finale. Does the Season 2 finale of Tracker answer enough questions, or do the reveals about Colter Shaw's (Justin Hartley) father not satisfy? Colter's homecoming in Season 2,…
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‘A Minecraft Movie’ Swings Past Most Divisive Spider-Man Hit In Its Quest Towards $1 Billion at Global Box Office
After having completed more than a month of release in theaters worldwide, A Minecraft Movie has passed its biggest milestone yet. The video game adaptation remains the highest-grossing Hollywood film of the year, and is now in the home stretch…
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Silly Slasher Feels Like A Great Throwback Horror Movie
This review was originally published on May 10, 2025, as a part of our SXSW Film & TV Festival. I'm always nostalgic for the early aughts remakes of horror classics and their slasher copycats. Friday the 13th with Danielle Panabaker.…
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I Can’t Believe How Limp The Action Is In Kerry Washington & Omar Sy’s Bland Thriller
While one-man army stories are largely the rage thanks to the John Wick franchise, a recent growing trend is that of families finding their idyllic lives upended when the parents' prior lives as operatives catch up with them. Thus far,…
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A Glitzy, Empty Retelling Of Verona’s Star-Crossed Lovers That Thinks It’s Smarter Than It Is
"For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo." The final line of Shakespeare's legendary play seems to be the only reason Juliet & Romeo is inversely titled the way it is, teasing a…
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Patricia Clarkson’s Strong Performance Cannot Save This Lackluster, Unskilled Courtroom Drama Biopic
It is hard to make a great biopic, and Lilly was a reminder of that. Sometimes, the performance by one or two strong leads can really ground the film, as was the case with 2023’s mixed-reviewed sports drama Nyad. Even…
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A Colorful Mess That Turns William Shakespeare Into a Pop Musical
Timothy Scott Bogart’s Juliet & Romeo is a colorful reimagining of one of William Shakespeare’s most iconic plays. As the name suggests, this isn’t a one-for-one adaptation of Romeo & Juliet, nor is it a modernized adaptation of the Bard’s…
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Experimental Chinese Drama Spanning Decades Had Me Invested With Its Visual Storytelling
There have been only a few Chinese language drama movies I've seen in recent years, many of which adhere to a similar form of filmmaking. However, there have also been some that have crafted stories in new, intriguing ways, often…
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Vince Vaughn Plays It Too Safe In This True Culinary Story
By now, nearly three decades removed from his breakout success in, “Swingers, ” it shouldn’t be at all difficult to predict what’s on deck for the next Vince Vaughn performance: charming, snarky, and with just the right amount of word…
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Can a Tsunami Save Our Throuple?
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Doctor Odyssey Episode 17. After last week’s dreadfully disappointing episode of Doctor Odyssey, Part 1 of the two-part finale manages to salvage what remains of the series’ best elements just in time…
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