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TV review: Making A Murderer Part 2 is captivating true crime
The ambitious second season of Netflix's doc series is a slower burn, but finds a compelling new character in Steven Avery's post-conviction lawyer more
Review: The Happy Prince is a moving look at Oscar Wilde's final days
Writer/director/star Rupert Everett's unabashedly queer film doesn't sanitize or de-sex the Irish wit more
Review: Halloween sequel about facing monsters feels like the movie of the moment
David Gordon Green carves out some creepy surprises in this satisfying follow-up to John Carpenter's 1978 classic more
Review: The Oath is an entertaining, seriously funny look at the political divide in Trump’s America
Ike Barinholtz’s directorial debut, set during a fraught Thanksgiving dinner, serves up lots of food for thought more
Review: The New Romantic mixes prickly comedy with sharp character moments
Carly Stone’s directorial debut, about a university student who wants her life to be a Nora Ephron movie, might remind you of Frances Ha more
Review: Sharkwater Extinction is a solid doc, until it becomes a memorial
The death of filmmaker Rob Stewart changed the focus of this look at the commercial shark-fishing industry more
Review: Transformer unpacks the insecurities of a trans bodybuilder
Documentary about Janae Marie Kroczaleski is as much about body image as transitioning more
Review: The Guilty gets big thrills from clever script, bravura acting and single location
Denmark's Oscar entry about a police officer investigating an abduction makes the most of its limitations more
Review: Beautiful Boy follows the same old addiction film template
Steve Carell-Timothée Chalamet film about a father trying to understand his son’s struggles tries way too hard to be authentic, pure and true more
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TV review: Netflix’s Daredevil: Season 3 takes a very long time to unfold
The obsessive focus on telling a single, bingeable story means there’s no shape to the first half of this season, but it’s still watchable more
Review: The Hate U Give is relevant and urgent
Adaptation of Angie Thomas's YA novel about Black Lives Matter gets all its points across, but could have been more powerful more
TV review: The Haunting Of Hill House is slow-burn psychological horror
Mike Flanagan's Netflix adaptation of Shirley Jackson's classic will give you chills and make you tear up more
Review: Bad Times At The El Royale is, well, pretty bad
Drew Goddard's Tarantino-esque film is a big, messy, overly long disappointment more
Review: Knuckleball starts out great but then strikes out
Indie Canadian film begins as an interesting drama but soon becomes just another home invasion thriller more
Review: Free Solo is a vertigo-inducing documentary
Despite rock climber Alex Honnold's unemotional exterior, this film about his attempt to free solo the sheer, 3000-foot El Capitan rock face is thrilling, white-knuckle viewing more
Review: First Man achieves total liftoff
Damien Chazelle's biopic about Neil Armstrong chases moments of rapture in the darkness more
Review: All About Nina, set in the world of stand-up comedy, rings true
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a revelation as a brilliant comic whose tough-talking persona masks deep issues more
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Review: Studio 54 doc profiles the money men behind the iconic club
Film charting the rise and fall of the notorious New York City disco is thorough but grows less compelling the further away it moves from the dance floor more
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TV review: HBO comedy Camping is condescending
Jennifer Garner stars as a social media-obsessed mom in series from Girls creators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner more
Review: Venom sucks without Spider-Man
Honestly, I suspect the only reason Marvel allowed this thing to be made was to defuse the argument that its movies are all starting to feel the same more