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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.

06

‘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.

09

‘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.

Monday, Mar 18

‘Palm Royale’ Review: Kristen Wiig Leads Apple TV+’s Stylish and Starry but Substance-Challenged Satire

The comedy, co-starring Laura Dern, Allison Janney and Ricky Martin, centers on a former pageant queen who tries to break into the upper echelons of high society in late 1960s Florida.

Friday, Mar 15

01

‘Doin’ It’ Review: Lilly Singh’s High-School Sex-Ed Comedy Gets an Incomplete

A 30something gets a job teaching sex ed to high schoolers despite the fact that she's still a virgin in this film co-written by Singh directed by Sarah Zandieh.

Thursday, Mar 14

20

‘A Nice Indian Boy’ Review: Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff in a Winning Gay Rom-Com

After getting engaged to a white photographer raised by Indian parents, an Indian American doctor faces the challenge of introducing him to his traditional family.

Wednesday, Mar 13

16

‘Apples Never Fall’ Review: Annette Bening Leads Peacock’s Well-Acted but Underwhelming Family Whodunit

An all-star cast also including Sam Neill, Jake Lacy and Alison Brie are featured in this adaptation of a thriller by Liane Moriarty ('Big Little Lies').

Tuesday, Mar 12

15

‘Manhunt’ Review: Tobias Menzies in Apple TV+’s Smart Series About the Search for Lincoln’s Assassin

The actor stars as the cabinet member leading the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth in the days after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Sunday, Mar 10

04

‘Magpie’ Review: Daisy Ridley Stars in a Marital Noir That Never Heats Up

The film centers on a stay-at-home mother who is pushed to the brink after her husband falls in love with a famous actress.

Saturday, Mar 9

00

‘Bob Trevino Likes It’ Review: Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo Earn Your Tears in a Touching Dramedy of Connection

A lonely young woman befriends a childless older man while searching on Facebook for her estranged father in Tracie Laymon's SXSW competition entry.

Tuesday, Mar 5

16

‘Alice & Jack’ Review: Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson Star in PBS’ Romantic Endurance Test

The series charts a decade and a half in the intense but troubled relationship between a sweet scientist and a prickly financier.

Friday, Mar 1

23

‘The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin’ Review: Noel Fielding in Thin but Enjoyably Silly Apple TV+ Comedy

The Brit funnyman stars as an 18th century highwayman who builds a reputation for panache while trying to escape the clutches of a corrupt thieftaker, played by Hugh Bonneville.

Monday, Feb 26

‘The Gentlemen’ Review: Theo James Stars in a Guy Ritchie Netflix Series That Diverts but Never Dazzles

A spinoff of Ritchie's 2019 movie, the show centers on an aristocrat who inherits his late father's estate — and with it, his late father's involvement in a marijuana business.

Thursday, Feb 22

16

Critics’ Conversation: Winter TV’s Wicked Games

THR’s TV critics weigh in on a conspicuously murderous past few months of small-screen offerings, with a wide range of whodunits dominating the landscape — and a few refreshing exceptions to the rule (thank you, Max’s Sort Of!).

10

‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Review: Netflix’s Live-Action Remake Is a Major Letdown

The streamer's take on the beloved animated series centers on a young boy tasked with saving the world by mastering all four elements: earth, air, water and fire.

Tuesday, Feb 20

23

‘Constellation’ Review: Noomi Rapace in an Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Mystery That Starts With a Bang, Ends With a Whimper

The series centers on an astronaut who survives a space-station accident, only to discover upon her return to Earth that her life is not as she remembered it.

Wednesday, Feb 14

04

‘The New Look’ Review: Juliette Binoche and Ben Mendelsohn Play Coco Chanel and Christian Dior in Sumptuous Apple TV+ Series

The fashion heavyweights cut contrasting journeys through Nazi-occupied Paris and postwar Europe in the drama from Todd A. Kessler ('Damages').

Tuesday, Feb 6

22

‘One Day’ Review: Netflix’s Appealingly Acted British Romance Overstays Its Welcome

A chance encounter on the last day of university sparks a decades-long bond between two classmates (Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall) in an adaptation of David Nicholls' bestselling novel.

Thursday, Feb 1

15

‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ Review: Donald Glover and Maya Erskine Lack the Romantic Fizz to Lift Amazon’s Spy Caper

Two espionage agents are assigned to work together posing as a married couple in a reboot of the 2005 big-screen action comedy that paired Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Friday, Jan 26

01

‘Expats’ Review: Nicole Kidman in Lulu Wang’s Rewardingly Messy Hong Kong-Set Amazon Series

Sarayu Blue and Ji-young Yoo co-star in the adaptation of Janice Y.K. Lee's novel about three American women in Hong Kong struggling to move on after a tragedy.