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The Tattooist of Auschwitz review: Strange work adds little to an over-exploited chapter of our shared history

In this TV adaptation of Heather Morris’s controversial bestseller, Harvey Keitel and Jonah Hauer-King play the older and younger versions of tattooist Lali Sokolov

Review: 'I Saw the TV Glow' gets stranded in a glum gaze from which it never stirs

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Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun turns a shared obsession over a fictional TV series into an inchoate story of teenage semi-friendship and arrested development.

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‘The Contestant’ Review: The Perils of Reality TV Laid Bare in Hulu’s Documentary

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His name is Nasubi. He sits alone and naked in a small apartment for months on end, trying to win food and clothing as mail-in sweepstake prizes. He doesn’t quite know it, but his strange predicament is being broadcast to 17 million people…

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Netflix’s ‘A Man in Full’ Puts a One-Note Jeff Daniels in an Empty Suit: TV Review

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“A Man in Full,” the sprawling Tom Wolfe novel now adapted by screenwriter David E. Kelley into a limited series for Netflix, centers on a protagonist who, for all his resources, can’t bend the world to his will. Over six episodes, the…

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Blu-ray Review: Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs

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The rise of TV in the ’60s and ’70s lessened the desire for people to pay to watch a movie in a theater. Why go out when the ABC Saturday Night movie was on? This was true in America and foreign countries. How could movie studios lure…

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'I Saw the TV Glow' Review: When Pop Culture Turns Cultish

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Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s film follows two young people obsessed with a fictional ’90s television series.

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Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror & Lightstrip review: Playing with color

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Nanoleaf’s 4D Screen Mirror and Lightstrip kit aims to improve the TV viewing experience. But is it worth the premium you pay? We find out.

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Peacock’s ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ Is a Gruesome and Grueling Holocaust-Set Love Story: TV Review

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Specific images of the Holocaust have endlessly punctuated the film and TV landscape: The barbed wire of a concentration camp. Naked bodies rendered to skin and bone, tossed in discarded piles. Gleeful abuse and random killings by evil…

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Dark Matter TV Review

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Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly lead a stellar thriller based on the acclaimed science fiction novel.

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‘A Man In Full’ TV Review: Jeff Daniels & Diane Lane Are Full-On In Netflix’s Tom Wolfe Adaptation, But That’s Not The Only Reason To Watch

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Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane rarely put in anything less than stellar performances, but the Emmy winner and Oscar nominee are rarely as good as they are in Netflix’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full. In a fortnight that has seen the…

Dark Matter review: Apple TV+ sci-fi is thrilling at every turn

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Carve out eight hours of your life immediately for Apple TV+’s Dark Matter – because once you start, you won’t want to stop.

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The Fall Guy review: Who ordered a half-baked revival of a Lee Majors TV show? Anyone?

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Not even Ryan Gosling in the stuntman role can save this unfunny, dreary nonsense

Wednesday, May 1

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Movie review: ‘The Fall Guy’ a testament to star power, not stunts

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The film is based on the 1980s TV show that starred Lee Majors as a stunt man moonlighting as a bounty hunter.

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‘Hacks’ Is at the Peak of Its Powers in a Confident Season 3: TV Review

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At the end of its second season, “Hacks” seemed to have written itself into a corner. On the heels of a hit special, veteran stand-up Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) fired Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), the young writer whose perspective…

I Saw The TV Glow review: Jane Schoenbrun's electric film reaches through the screen and never lets go

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This review was originally published on March 11, 2024, as part of our coverage of the 2024 South By Southwest film festival.

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I SAW THE TV GLOW Review: Discomfiting Blend of Fantasy, Horror, Drama

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Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine star in Jane Schoenbrun's sophomore feature, from A24 Films.

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‘The Fall Guy’ Review: A Stuntman Falls in Love (And Onto Crash Pads)

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Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in the new blockbuster film version of the ’80s TV series. Continue reading…

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Them: The Scare TV Review

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The second season of the Prime Video horror anthology boasts stellar performances but lacks the titular frights.

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TV Q&A: Are local channels faking when they toss to a network anchor?

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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review.