Life Itself, from the creator of This Is Us, launches two family stories on two different continents. It offers some lovely moments, but its grand ambitions are beyond its grasp.
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Life Itself, from the creator of This Is Us, launches two family stories on two different continents. It offers some lovely moments, but its grand ambitions are beyond its grasp.
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Wash Westmoreland’s biopic of a French literary lioness is well-acted, gorgeously mounted and weighed down with incongruously modern speeches about sexuality and gender.
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The exquisite atmosphere and sense of foreboding that made John Bellairs’ 1973 book a children’s classic gets discarded in favor of a relentless riot of jump-scares and visual noise.
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This by-the-numbers documentary misses a step by focusing on the late Gilda Radner’s celebrity over her comedy, but it’s effective when it lets her recently discovered journals do the talking.
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Jonah Hill and Emma Stone star in a new, 10-part Netflix series about the psychological exploration of alternative realities and identities. Critic David Bianculli says Maniac is “a blast.”
When the creators of HBO’s The Deuce approached Gyllenhaal about starring as a sex worker on the show, she accepted the role — but only if she could produce as well as act.
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