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Friday, Jun 28

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‘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

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‘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.

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‘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.

Tuesday, Jun 4

19

‘The Acolyte’ Review: Amandla Stenberg in a Disney+ ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff That Shakes Up the Formula

Set decades before the events of the films, the dramatic thriller follows a Jedi knight and his former Padawan as they search for a mysterious Force user who's killing off Jedi one by one.

Thursday, May 30

16

‘We Are Lady Parts’ Review: Season 2 of Peacock’s Subversive Hit Recaptures the Magic and Deepens It

The all-female Muslim punk band enjoy new heights of success and face fresh competition in the second outing of the London-set musical comedy.

Tuesday, May 28

10

‘Eric’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Plays a Desperate Dad in Netflix’s Admirable but Unwieldy Mystery Miniseries

In Abi Morgan's new show, a puppeteer sets out to find his missing son — with help from the kid's imaginary monster friend — in 1980s New York.

Friday, May 24

04

‘Atlas’ Review: Jennifer Lopez and Simu Liu in Another Netflix Movie Made to Half-Watch While Doing Laundry

The star plays a data analyst forced to team up with an AI robot in order to prevent an apocalypse orchestrated by a different AI robot in Brad Peyton's film co-starring Sterling K. Brown.

Thursday, May 23

10

‘Tires’ Review: Netflix’s Workplace Comedy Sets a Low Bar for Itself, and Clears It

Shane Gillis and Steve Gerben's series is about an anxious man who takes over a failing branch of his father's auto repair chain.

Wednesday, May 22

20

‘Gazer’ Review: A Striking ‘Memento’-Like Noir That Keeps Viewers at a Stylish Distance

A young mother with a deteriorating neurological condition gets caught up in a deadly mystery in this Cannes-bowing feature directorial debut by Ryan J. Sloan.

Thursday, May 16

10

‘Bridgerton’ Review: In Season 3 of Netflix Favorite, the Spell Starts to Wear Off

A wallflower strikes up a romance with a longtime friend while trying to conceal her identity as the anonymous author of high society's most notorious scandal sheet in the new set of episodes.

Thursday, May 9

04

‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’ Review: Hulu Docuseries Is a Compelling Primer on a Social Media Movement

The three-part show chronicles an online revolution from playful memes to politics and beyond.

Wednesday, May 1

19

‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ Review: Melanie Lynskey and Harvey Keitel in Peacock’s Harrowing Holocaust Drama

An 80something Holocaust survivor relays his memories of Auschwitz, including his romance with a fellow prisoner, in a miniseries adapted from Heather Morris' 2018 bestseller.

Thursday, Apr 25

10

‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Review: Netflix’s ‘Sandman’ Spinoff Is a Fast, Fun Binge

The series centers on a pair of teenage ghosts who take on supernatural cases while trying to avoid getting sent on to the afterlife.

Wednesday, Apr 24

21

‘Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story’ Review: Hulu Rock Doc Is More Leisurely Victory Lap Than Deep Dive

The four-parter chronicles the rock star's recent vocal cord surgery and subsequent recovery, while also looking back at his band's four-decade career.

Friday, Apr 19

02

‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ Review: Christian Slater in a Roku Fantasy Series Sorely Lacking in Wonder

Adapted from the fantasy books, the adventure centers on a trio of adolescent siblings who must save their town from a ravenous ogre.

Tuesday, Apr 16

18

‘Under the Bridge’ Review: Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough Star in Hulu’s Timid True-Crime Drama

A cop and a writer investigate the 1997 murder of a 14-year-old girl in a Canadian town in this mystery based on the book by Rebecca Godfrey.

Wednesday, Apr 10

16

‘Fallout’ Review: Amazon Video Game Adaptation From ‘Westworld’ Creators Is Heavy on Vibes, Light on Narrative Stakes

Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's show follows an idealist, a soldier and a bounty hunter across Los Angeles two centuries after a nuclear apocalypse.

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‘Hapless’ Review: British-Jewish Cringe Comedy on Peacock Plays Like U.K.’s Answer to ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

The series follows the trivial misadventures of a freelance journalist working for "the fourth-largest Jewish publication in the U.K."

Wednesday, Apr 3

20

‘Mary & George’ Review: Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine in Starz’s Juicy Period Soap

The dramatic miniseries chronicles the rise of a charismatic young man and his scheming mother during the reign of King James VI and I in early 17th century Britain.

Thursday, Mar 28

18

‘Renegade Nell’ Review: Sally Wainwright’s Disney+ Series Strands a Commanding Star in a Thinly Conceived World

After being framed for murder, an 18th-century Englishwoman with supernatural powers becomes an outlaw in this show from the creator of 'Happy Valley.'

Monday, Mar 25

19

‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Review: Joey King and Logan Lerman in Hulu’s Stirring Holocaust Survival Drama

The series based on a novel by Georgia Hunter revolves around a Polish Jewish family scattered across the globe while trying to escape Nazi persecution in the 1940s.

Wednesday, Mar 20

21

‘Diarra From Detroit’ Review: BET+’s Mystery-Comedy Serves as a Sparkling Showcase for Creator-Star Diarra Kilpatrick

The series revolves around a schoolteacher who gets mixed up in a decades-old missing persons case after trying to track down a Tinder date who ghosted her.

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‘X-Men ’97’ Review: Disney+’s Series Strikes a Winning Balance Between Fond Nostalgia and Fresh Pizzazz

Picking up where the 1990s Saturday morning cartoon left off, the animated show finds the mutant superheroes trying to move forward in the absence of Professor X.