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‘The One About Matthew Perry’ Review: Netflix’s Intimate and Sincere but Overly Padded…
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‘Minimum Wage’ Review: Netflix’s Format-Breaking Hangout Series Makes Good on the Promise of Short Episode Running Times
'Fresh Off the Boat' star Randall Park is the biggest name in this adaptation of the web series of the same name from production company American High.
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‘Newlyweds’ Review: Téa Leoni and Tim Daly in an Innocuously Bland NBC Sitcom That’s Straight Out of the Late ’90s
Guest star Jamie Lee Curtis and the recently departed Gail Lerner co-created this series about a middle-aged couple who rush into their second marriage.
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‘Phony’ Review: Connie Britton and Sam Nivola Lead Hulu’s Likably Quirky and Beguiling Paranoid Mystery Series
A high school student survives a car accident but begins to suspect that his mother is an imposter in Nick Paley's eight-episode dramedy.
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‘The One About Matthew Perry’ Review: Netflix’s Intimate and Sincere but Overly Padded Docuseries
Perry's sister Mia and various friends, former girlfriends and colleagues talk about the actor's genius and his demons in Mary Robertson's three-parter.
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‘Minimum Wage’ Review: Netflix’s Format-Breaking Hangout Series Makes Good on the Promise of Short Episode Running Times
'Fresh Off the Boat' star Randall Park is the biggest name in this adaptation of the web series of the same name from production company American High.
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‘Newlyweds’ Review: Téa Leoni and Tim Daly in an Innocuously Bland NBC Sitcom That’s Straight Out of the Late ’90s
Guest star Jamie Lee Curtis and the recently departed Gail Lerner co-created this series about a middle-aged couple who rush into their second marriage.
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‘Phony’ Review: Connie Britton and Sam Nivola Lead Hulu’s Likably Quirky and Beguiling Paranoid Mystery Series
A high school student survives a car accident but begins to suspect that his mother is an imposter in Nick Paley's eight-episode dramedy.
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‘Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald’ Review: Judd Apatow’s Comedy Doc Sends Viewers Down a Laugh-Filled Rabbit Hole
The Netflix film skips traditional talking heads for a more archival approach to the 'Saturday Night Live' comedy legend.
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‘Crystal Lake’ Review: Peacock’s Linda Cardellini-Starring Series Is the Best ‘Friday the 13th’ Property Yet (Which Isn’t Saying a Lot)
The Emmy winner plays Pamela Voorhees, mother of a missing special needs child, in this prequel/adaptation/reimagining of the landmark slasher films.
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‘Tyson’ Review: Netflix’s Docuseries Tells Mike Tyson’s Story as Only Mike Tyson Could, and Already Has Several Times
Floyd Russ' four-part project follows the boxer from rough childhood to athletic stardom to decades of self-inflicted adversity.
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‘14th’ Review: Ava DuVernay Delivers Another Essential and Compelling Constitutional Deep Dive for Netflix
Premiering at the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker's follow-up to her '13th' tackles birthright citizenship, the Equal Protection Clause and the undoing of the gains of Reconstruction.
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‘Eternally Yours’ Review: CBS’ Vampire Comedy From ‘Ghosts’ Creators Is Severely Anemic
Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards star as bloodsuckers whose 500-year marriage has lost its spark.
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‘Below’ Review: Josh Hartnett Battles a Sea Creature in Netflix’s Likably Silly Newfoundland-Set Thriller
Jesse McKeown's six-part series focuses on a fisherman in a remote village, his quirky family and an aquatic monster capable of easily sinking ships.
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‘The Trial of Alec Baldwin’ Review: Rory Kennedy’s Bold but Blinkered Doc Centers the Movie Star in the ‘Rust’ Tragedy, Nearly Erasing Halyna Hutchins
Baldwin gave extensive access to a documentary crew as his trial relating to the death of Hutchins on the set of 'Rust' approached.
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‘Cupertino’ Review: Robert and Michelle King Tackle Big Tech in Their Latest Broadcast Winner
The CBS hour-long stars Mike Colter and Rachel Keller as legal professionals protecting the Davids in the Goliath-dominated world of Silicon Valley.
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‘Small Prophets’ Review: Mackenzie Crook’s Droll Apple TV Comedy Features Pearce Quigley in One of the Year’s Best Performances
Quigley plays a melancholy man who enlists a new friend (Lauren Patel) and supernatural forces to learn the truth about his girlfriend's disappearance.
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‘Carrie’ Review: Mike Flanagan Capably Expands Stephen King’s Horror Classic for Amazon, but Did It Really Need Expanding?
Summer H. Howell and Samantha Sloyan play telekinetic teen Carrie White and her terrifying mom Margaret in the new series adaptation of the novel.
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‘East of Eden’ Review: A Terrifying Florence Pugh Towers Over Zoe Kazan’s Accomplished Netflix Adaptation of the John Steinbeck Classic
Co-starring Mike Faist and Christopher Abbott, the seven-episode miniseries is truer to the source material than the 1955 feature from Zoe Kazan's grandfather, Elia Kazan.
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‘Brothers’ Review: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson Get Squandered in an Apple Sitcom That’s Barely Alright, Alright, Alright
The 'True Detective' co-stars reunite to play themselves in the eight-episode Texas-set comedy, which was run by David West Read ('Schitt's Creek') and then Lee Eisenberg ('WeCrashed').
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