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Thursday, Sep 19

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‘Twilight of the Gods’ Review: Zack Snyder’s Animated Norse-Mythology Retelling for Netflix Is Visually Rich but Emotionally Hollow

After her wedding day is turned into a horrific massacre, a bride goes on a quest of vengeance against the gods that threatens to bring about the very end of their times.

04

‘Agatha All Along’ Review: Kathryn Hahn Works Her Magic in Disney+’s Uneven Marvel Spinoff

Some time after the events of 'Wandavision,' the villainous witch teams up with a mysterious teenager and a reluctant coven on a supernatural journey to regain her powers.

Tuesday, Sep 17

16

‘American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez’ Review: FX’s Ryan Murphy-Produced Drama Brings Little New Insight to an Infamous Crime

The first season of the anthology series focuses on the New England Patriots star who was convicted of murder in 2015 and subsequently died by suicide in 2017.

Thursday, Sep 12

19

‘How to Die Alone’ Review: Natasha Rothwell’s Life-After-Almost-Death Hulu Dramedy Is a Warm, Funny Treat

The 'Insecure' actress created and stars in an Onyx Collective series about a JFK employee who tries to become a bolder version of herself after nearly perishing on her birthday.

Sunday, Sep 8

‘Universal Basic Guys’ Review: Fox’s Good-Natured Bro Toon Is Too Familiar to Feel Fresh

The animated comedy follows two South Jersey brothers through a series of wacky adventures funded by an income pilot program they were enrolled in after losing their factory jobs.

Friday, Sep 6

05

‘The Luckiest Man in America’ Review: Paul Walter Hauser Stars in a Game Show Drama With More Style Than Substance

Samir Oliveros' film depicts the fateful 1984 appearance on 'Press Your Luck' by ice-cream truck driver Michael Larson, who would win the largest prize in the show's history.

Thursday, Sep 5

20

TIFF 2024: Read THR’s Reviews of the Movies Screening at the Toronto Film Festival (Updating)

The Hollywood Reporter critics weigh in on this year’s crop of titles, from biopics to documentaries, sweeping epics to intimate character studies, tear-jerking dramas to laugh-out-loud comedies.

17

‘The Perfect Couple’ Review: Nicole Kidman Plays Yet Another Miserable Rich Lady in Netflix’s Turgid Murder Mystery

A young couple's wedding weekend in Nantucket is derailed by the discovery of a dead body, in the Susanne Bier-directed adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's novel.

Monday, Sep 2

16

‘English Teacher’ Review: FX’s Dryly Hilarious Public-School Comedy Makes the Grade

Brian Jordan Alvarez created and stars in the half-hour series about an idealistic but frequently misguided gay educator working in suburban Austin.

Wednesday, Aug 28

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Review: Season 2 of Amazon’s Fantasy Prequel Is Too Epic for Its Own Good

As Sauron continues fixating on precious jewelry, all of Middle-earth ramps up toward a world-changing, era-defining showdown between good and evil.

Thursday, Aug 22

Critics’ Conversation: Real Life Was Riveting — Summer TV, Not So Much

Politics and the Paris Olympics provided lots of drama, but despite some exceptions — sexy investment bankers, sexier vampires, litigious elves and Muslim punks — the scripted landscape was lackluster.

Tuesday, Aug 20

02

‘Pachinko’ Review: Apple TV+’s Ambitious Family Epic Returns for a Gorgeously Emotional Season 2

Soo Hugh's adaptation of Min Jin Lee's novel follows Sunja and her family through World War II and its aftermath, while in 1989 Solomon plots against a professional nemesis.

Friday, Aug 9

01

‘Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Review: Paramount+’s Winning ‘Mutant Mayhem’ Sequel

The cast of the 2023 film return for an animated series that follows the heroes as they battle an army of mechazoids unleashed by a scientist with an anti-mutant agenda.

Monday, Jul 29

19

‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ Review: Amazon’s Dark Knight Series Entertains Though Rarely Soars

Hamish Linklater leads the voice cast in this latest take on Gotham City's masked crime-fighter, a 1940s noir-infused animated adventure developed by Bruce Timm ('Batman: The Animated Series').

Thursday, Jul 25

09

‘The Decameron’ Review: Zosia Mamet and Tony Hale in Netflix’s Fitfully Funny Black Plague Comedy

This series loosely inspired by the Boccaccio classic revolves around a group of nobles and servants waiting out the Black Plague in 14th-century Tuscany.

Thursday, Jul 18

21

‘Omnivore’ Review: Noma’s René Redzepi Hosts an Apple TV+ Food Docuseries That’s as Thought-Provoking as It Is Hunger-Inducing

Each episode of the globetrotting show focuses on a single key ingredient to consider the way it's shaped our history, our society and perhaps our future.

Friday, Jul 12

19

‘Emperor of Ocean Park’ Review: Forest Whitaker’s MGM+ Thriller Sags Under the Weight of Messy Ambition

A law professor is pulled into a dangerous web of conspiracy after the death of his father, a prominent conservative judge, in this mystery series based on Stephen L. Carter's novel.

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‘Exploding Kittens’ Review: Netflix’s Admirably Zany Animated Cat Comedy Could Use Sharper Jokes

Inspired by the card game of the same name, the series created by Matthew Inman and Shane Kosakowski sees a clash between God and the Devil, both of them sent to Earth in the bodies of cats.

Wednesday, Jul 10

18

Poking ‘The Bear’: THR’s TV Critics Dissect the Divisiveness of Season 3

Is Jeremy Allen White's Carmy still locked in that metaphorical refrigerator of trauma, or is his entire show?

03

‘Sunny’ Review: Rashida Jones in Apple TV+’s Sleek, Sporadically Involving Sci-Fi Drama

The actress plays an American expat in Japan who is gifted a domestic robot after losing her family in a plane crash.

Friday, Jun 28

02

‘A Family Affair’ Review: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron in a Netflix Rom-Com That Charms Despite Missteps

The Richard LaGravenese-directed film centers on a widowed middle-aged writer having an affair with a younger movie star — who happens to be her daughter's boss.

Wednesday, Jun 26

18

‘My Lady Jane’ Review: Emily Bader Reinvents a Luckless Royal in Prime Video’s Amusing if Insubstantial Historical Romp

Everyone knows Jane Grey was beheaded for claiming the throne after the death of King Edward VI. This alt-history fantasy presupposes: Maybe she wasn't?

Tuesday, Jun 25

22

‘Land of Women’ Review: Eva Longoria and Carmen Maura in Apple TV+’s Palatable Comfort-Food Family Portrait

After her husband runs afoul of loan sharks, a wealthy New Yorker flees with her elderly mother and teenage daughter to her family's ancestral home in Spanish wine country.

Tuesday, Jun 18

18

Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 10 Best TV Shows of 2024 So Far

Faves from the first half of the year include a pair of addictively dark Netflix dramas, a heart-tugging sports doc/celebrity bromance and a stronger-than-ever season of 'Hacks.'

Friday, Jun 14

00

‘House of the Dragon’ Review: Season 2 of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel Nails the Spectacle but Fumbles the Intimacy

War threatens to take over the continent as the late king's two eldest children grapple for control of the Iron Throne in the show's sophomore outing.

Tuesday, Jun 11

17

‘All That We Love’ Review: Margaret Cho in a Midlife-Crisis Dramedy That Will Make Pet Lovers Weep

In this Tribeca world premiere, a woman enters a period of change as her beloved dog dies, her daughter prepares to move away and her ex-husband re-enters her life.

16

‘Brats’ Review: Andrew McCarthy’s Hulu Doc Is a Sharp and Insightful Excavation of the Brat Pack’s Past

Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe and more feature in a documentary about the infamous circle of young Hollywood stars in the 1980s.

Thursday, Jun 6

20

‘Queenie’ Review: Hulu’s Uneven but Likeable Quarter-Life Crisis Drama

A 25-year-old British Jamaican journalist navigates the wilds of work, love, sex and family in Candice Carty-Williams' series.

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Critics’ Conversation: From ‘Baby Reindeer’ to ‘Fallout’ — Spring TV’s Left-Field Standouts and Shiny Letdowns

THR’s television critics dissect a busy small-screen season that included some unexpected blowout hits and a string of prestige projects with lots of stars but little spark.

‘Becoming Karl Lagerfeld’ Review: Daniel Brühl in a Hulu Miniseries That Struggles to Capture the German Designer’s Relevance

The French-language bio-drama charts the fashion icon's rising career and tumultuous personal relationships through the 1970s and into the early 1980s.