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‘City Hunter’: Netflix Whiffs Yet Another Live-Action Manga Adaptation

Mainstream animation from the U.S. and Japan may be far apart in sensibility, style, and intended audience, but cartoons from both countries do share...

25.04.2024 20

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‘Unsung Hero’: God Himself Can’t Save This Uninspiring Faith-Based Drama

“I know what I believe,” says Rebecca Smallbone (Kirrilee Berger), a teenager defending her ability to write and sing pop songs, about halfway...

25.04.2024 10

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Jesse Hassenger

Don’t Tell Mom The New ‘Babysitter's Dead’ Remake Barely Makes Sense

When four siblings conspire to surreptitiously dispose of a dead body, tweenage Melissa (Ayaamii Sledge) raises an important point about their caution...

12.04.2024 9

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Mark Wahlberg’s ‘Inspirational’ New Movie ‘Arthur the King’ Is a Real Dog

After 15 years, a beloved Saturday Night Live sketch has finally made it to the big screen. Now, technically speaking, Arthur the King, in theaters...

13.03.2024 5

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Star Wars Cartoon ‘The Bad Batch’ Is Still a So-So Continuation of ‘Clone Wars’

No fan of the early-2000s Star Wars prequels could resist the career arc of Dave Filoni. A veteran of Nickelodeon’s beloved Avatar: The Last...

21.02.2024 10

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Jesse Hassenger

The Best Marvel Show on TV Right Now Is a Cartoon for Kids

02.02.2024 4

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Jesse Hassenger

Is Hulu’s New Whodunit Series the Next ‘Knives Out’?

Death and Other Details is a long-form murder mystery with voiceover narration directly encouraging its audience to stay on its toes, keep on guard,...

12.01.2024 5

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‘Night Swim’: The Haunted Swimming Pool Movie is Surprisingly Good!

From the Stephen King school of what-object-can-we-haunt comes Night Swim, this year’s annual first-weekend-in-January horror movie. Yes, it really...

05.01.2024 9

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‘Extended Family’: Jon Cryer’s New NBC Sitcom Already Feels Like a Rerun

Jon Cryer’s TV-star superpower is his willingness to keep at it. He weathered a litany of one-season shows in the ’90s before landing his...

02.01.2024 10

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Jesse Hassenger

I truly believe Tim Burton’s Willy Wonka movie is still the best Willy Wonka movie

“Hеre is the child that you left behind. Here is the kid with the curious mind. Here is the wonder we used to feel, back when the magic was...

22.12.2023 2

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‘Migration’ is a ‘Finding Nemo’ Knockoff from the Studio That Brought You the Minions

What does Illumination, one of the past decade’s most financially lucrative producers of big-studio animation, do when left to its own devices? The...

20.12.2023 10

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Jesse Hassenger

‘Merry Little Batman’ Is Your Fun Seasonal Antidote to the Grim-Faced Dark Knight

You have to hand it to the folks in charge of cranking out movies and TV shows based on DC Comics characters: They may oversaturate the market with...

07.12.2023 5

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‘Good Burger 2’ Will Disappoint Even Nickelodeon Fans

Though the current iteration of Saturday Night Live is not the sketch-to-movie factory it once threatened to become, it’s still remarkable that...

22.11.2023 4

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Is Daisy Ridley’s ‘The Marsh King’s Daughter’ the New ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’?

Feel that chill in the air, followed by a feeling of alienation from the trappings of modern society? That’s a sign of Hot Girl Summer being...

02.11.2023 5

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Jesse Hassenger

The New ‘Goosebumps’ TV Series Is Disney to a Fault

You have to hand it to R.L. Stine: In his years as the reigning creator of spooky stories for young people, the man has produced such a flood of...

12.10.2023 1

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