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‘Gladiator II’ Is a Paul Mescal Thirst Trap With Swords
Also sharks, angry rhinos, angrier monkeys, evil Roman emperors, and Denzel Washington at his absolute campiest. Yes, we're entertained
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‘The Piano Lesson’ Turns a Major Play Into a Minor-Key Family Affair
Denzel Washington continues his August Wilson adaptation project with playwright's Pulitzer-winning work about a family, an heirloom, and a whole lotta drama
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‘A Man on the Inside’ Puts Ted Danson Back in a Good Place
The sitcom stalwart reunites with showrunner Mike Schur for a feel-good mystery-comedy set in a retirement home
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‘Flow’ Is the Perfect Movie for Animation Fans, Animal Lovers, and Environmental Doomsayers
Latvia’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar follows a cat and several other furry friends trying to survive the end of the world as we know it
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‘Wicked’: Witches Get Stuff Done. Also Cynthia Erivo Is God
Both the Oscar nominee and Ariana Grande give this long-awaited adaptation of the popular musical wings — but Erivo’s the one truly defying gravity
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'Gladiator II' Is a Paul Mescal Thirst Trap With Swords
Also sharks, angry rhinos, angrier monkeys, evil Roman emperors, and Denzel Washington at his absolute campiest. Yes, we're entertained
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'The Piano Lesson' Turns a Major Play Into a Minor-Key Family Affair
Denzel Washington continues his August Wilson adaptation project with playwright's Pulitzer-winning work about a family, an heirloom, and a whole lotta drama
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'A Man on the Inside' Puts Ted Danson Back in a Good Place
The sitcom stalwart reunites with showrunner Mike Schur for a feel-good mystery-comedy set in a retirement home
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‘Flow’ Is the Perfect Movie for Animation Fans, Animal Lovers, and Environmental Doomsayers
Latvia’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar follows a cat and several other furry friends trying to survive the end of the world as we know it
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'Wicked': Witches Get Stuff Done. Also Cynthia Erivo Is God
Both the Oscar nominee and Ariana Grande give this long-awaited adaptation of the popular musical wings — but Erivo’s the one truly defying gravity
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‘All We Imagine as Light’ Is the Quiet, Surprise Masterpiece of 2024
Filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s drama about three generations of women dealing with love, lust and loss in modern-day Mumbai is like a sneak attack on your soul
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‘Landman’: What If ‘Yellowstone,’ But With Oil?
Taylor Sheridan’s newest drama — starring Billy Bob Thornton as an oilman fighting off bankers and feuding with family members — is like a rough draft of his usual antihero show, only worse
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The Troubles Are Too Big for 'Say Nothing' to Contain
FX/Hulu's adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's book about Northern Ireland's fight for liberation struggles to balance multiple storylines and characters
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'The Day of the Jackal' Turns a Classic Thriller Into a Mid TV Travelogue
Still, you do get Eddie Redmayne as the world's best assassin, Lashana Lynch in prime Bond mode, and some killer set pieces
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'Dune: Prophecy' Would Simply Love to Be a Sci-Fi 'Game of Thrones'
Whether this wonky, six-episode prequel to Denis Villeneuve's cinematic universe — based on Frank Hebert's novels — will make that prophecy come true is a whole other matter
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