The Most Essential Richard Lewis Episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm A salute to “the most pretentious man in the world” and Larry David’s kindred bastard.
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July 31, 2023
Checking In on Netflix’s Original Movies: July 2023 Edition Tyrone gets cloned, Ellie Kemper tries something (kind of) different, and a German flick offers a dystopian spin on “Time is money.”
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June 17, 2023
Every Black Mirror Episode, Ranked Political satires and future dystopias, soulless nihilism and life-affirming humanism — anything is possible in this anthology series.
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Feb. 10, 2023
The Best Romantic Comedies on Netflix Right Now Notting Hill , Jerry Maguire , Wedding Crashers , and more.
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Dec. 20, 2022
Checking In on Netflix’s Original Movies: December 2022 Edition A steamy, faithful rendition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover , a stop-motion version of Pinocchio , and a stylized reimagining of a Christmas classic.
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Apr. 22, 2022
Checking In on Netflix’s Original Movies: April 2022 Edition Judd Apatow’s pandemic comedy, an animated film from Richard Linklater, a Korean crime thriller, and more.
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Mar. 23, 2022
Checking in on Netflix’s Original Movies: March 2022 Edition A globe-trotting weekend gone wrong, a time-travel action flick, and a home-invasion noir.
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Feb. 18, 2022
Checking in on Netflix’s Original Movies: February 2022 Edition Off-kilter French comedy, saucy Korean drama, and two tall girls.
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Jan. 21, 2022
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Dec. 20, 2021
Checking In on Netflix’s Original Movies: December 2021 Edition A Jane Campion western, a Sandra Bullock drama, and Single All the Way .
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Nov. 24, 2021
Checking In On Netflix’s Original Movies: November 2021 Edition An Idris Elba Western, Italian true crime, and something starring Kelsey Grammer.
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Oct. 21, 2021
Checking In On Netflix’s Original Movies: October 2021 Edition A Jake Gyllenhaal thriller, a Peruvian psychodrama, and an animated spin-off of Bright .
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Sept. 24, 2021
Checking In On Netflix’s Original Movies: September 2021 Edition Including a prestige-y legal drama starring Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci.
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Aug. 25, 2021
Checking In on Netflix’s Original Movies: August 2021 Edition Upbeat musicals, samurai epics, and a skin-crawling French creature feature.
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July 16, 2021
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June 23, 2021
Checking In on Netflix’s Original Movies: June 2021 Edition Featuring Dennis Quaid in an international feel-good story.
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May 19, 2021
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Mar. 30, 2021
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Feb. 8, 2021
The Strange-But-True Story Behind Spaceship Earth Biosphere 2, a 1990s experiment in quarantine, was regarded as a spectacular failure. Has its reputation been misunderstood?
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Mar. 23, 2020
‘This Is the Apocalypse That Has Been on the Horizon for a Long Time’ Alex Ross Perry, Kris Rey, TT the Artist and more filmmakers on watching their latest movies, and their industry at large, fall to a pandemic.
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Jan. 17, 2020
Every Original Bob’s Burgers Song, Ranked From “BM in the PM” to “Electric Love,” these are the show’s best tunes.
Castle Rock ’s Lizzy Caplan on Taking Annie Wilkes Beyond Misery For Hulu’s Stephen King remix series, Caplan had to navigate the shadow of Kathy Bates as well as the pitfalls of depicting mental illness.
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Sept. 16, 2019
The Hardest, Strangest, Most Unforgettable Jobs In Hollywood TV and movie craftspeople share their stories (and a great dip recipe).
hardest things
Sept. 10, 2019
The Hardest Effect I Ever Pulled Off 42 filmmakers, cinematographers, and effects artists on making the impossible happen.
Nicolas Cage Takes Full Credit for That Prosthetic Nose The actor walks us through the backstory of his Never on Tuesday cameo.
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July 25, 2019
Euphoria Is High on Scorsese’s SupplyThe influence of filmmaking’s premier poet of self-destruction courses through the HBO teens-behaving-badly series.
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June 21, 2019
Making a (Cheerful and Optimistic, If Not Particularly Talented) Murderer How NoHo Hank, Barry’s scene-stealing, endlessly quotable would-be crime boss, was inspired by an Apple Store employee.
Black Mirror Recap: Head Like a HoleThe nefarious machinery of pop music is pitted against some tired rockist clichés, and Miley Cyrus sings Nine Inch Nails.
Black Mirror Recap: Eyes on the RoadA real-time hostage scenario flirts with intriguing ideas about surveillance, but falls back on the same old gripes about the perils of smartphones.
Black Mirror Recap: Wish I Knew How to Quit YouWhat feels like a far-lesser sequel to “San Junipero” turns the love between two men into a dunderheaded thought experiment.
What’s the Difference Between Riverdale and a Riverdale Porn Parody? It’s not easy making a porn parody out of a show that’s already a soft-core parody of itself.
Mary Harron Breaks Down Matt Smith’s Wild Orgy Scene in Charlie Says “The hardest part about that scene was finding enough extras willing to get naked!”
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May 10, 2019
Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer on Why We Can’t Stream Doll & Em The actresses/childhood best friends had a very different dynamic on the set of their new film Good Posture .
The ’60s Sketch-Comedy Show That Crashed and Burned Into TV Infamy In 1969, Turn-On was supposed to be television’s next big thing. But then it got canceled after one very offensive episode.
Agnès Varda’s Greatest Achievement Was Knowing Herself The French New Wave icon opened up a space where her portraiture of women — and, eventually, one woman in particular — could flourish.
Director Mia Hansen-Løve on Cinematic Daddies, Marriage, and Needing Therapy The Maya filmmaker says she’s never suffered from sexism as a director, but certainly noticed it as a film critic.
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Mar. 1, 2019
Breaking Down Climax ’s DJ Set From Hell We unpack the soundtrack of Gaspar Noé’s latest — a hysterical, deranged EDM opera.
Maika Monroe Pulled a Lady Bird and Named Herself “In the first grade, I went to my class and said, ‘I will no longer respond to Dillon. I am Maika now.’”
Javier Bardem on His Evolving Chemistry With Penélope Cruz “You must always know when you’re working on a level of re-creation, outside of real life. Penélope and I, we have to protect the ‘us.’”
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Feb. 19, 2019
Every (Pre-Lady Gaga) Oscar-Nominated Acting Performance by a Musician, Ranked What does it take for a performance by a musician to earn acclaim at the Oscars? We ranked the 25 (pre-Lady Gaga) turns deemed nomination-worthy.
12 Movies to See This Presidents’ Day Weekend Watch Liam Neeson snowplow his way through criminals, Mads Mikkelsen square off against Mother Nature, or Rosa Salazar punch a hole in the future.
Lena Headey Is Ready to Give Up Her Game of Thrones Wig “The Turnip, as I’ve taken to calling her. Fucking hate the Turnip. Can’t wait to be rid of her. End of that. Did not bring that one home with me.”
behind the scenes
Jan. 18, 2019
How Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Changed the Animation Game The story behind the hit film’s unorthodox, exhilarating pop art.
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