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‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: A Timely Doc About Hollywood, Hyper-Sexualization…
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Batter Up! The Voice of the Dodgers on the Start of a New Baseball Season
During this week’s ‘TV’s Top 5’ podcast, hosts Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg are joined by Dodger broadcaster Joe Davis to discuss how the league’s new rules impact game calling and tales from the World Baseball Classic. Plus an April TV preview, Mailbag and reviews of ‘The Big Door Prize,’ ‘Dave’ and ‘The Power.’
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Critic’s Notebook: Capitalism and TV Today, a Love/Hate Story
In an ironic twist, some of the biggest perpetrators of corporate ruthlessness in the entertainment industry are currently producing several of the most honest portraits of our bleak economic moment.
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‘The Big Door Prize’ Review: Chris O’Dowd in an Apple TV+ Charmer That Stumbles Over Its Ambitions
This new half-hour dramedy from a 'Schitt's Creek' producer explores the impact of a mysterious fortune-telling machine on a small town.
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‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: A Timely Doc About Hollywood, Hyper-Sexualization and a Star’s Resilience
The two-part Hulu documentary looks at Shields' career, from the unsettling '80s stardom of 'Pretty Baby' and 'Blue Lagoon' to her journey toward finding her voice and her agency.
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Batter Up! The Voice of the Dodgers on the Start of a New Baseball Season
Welcome to the 208th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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Critic’s Notebook: Capitalism and TV Today, a Love/Hate Story
In an ironic twist, some of the biggest perpetrators of corporate ruthlessness in the entertainment industry are currently producing several of the most honest portraits of our bleak economic moment.
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‘The Big Door Prize’ Review: Chris O’Dowd in an Apple TV+ Charmer That Stumbles Over Its Ambitions
This new half-hour dramedy from a 'Schitt's Creek' producer explores the impact of a mysterious fortune-telling machine on a small town.
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Shawn Ryan Opens Up About WGA Negotiations, Netflix’s ‘Night Agent’ and How ‘Terriers’ Was Ahead of Its Time
Welcome to the 207th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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‘The Night Agent’ Review: Netflix’s Pleasantly Pulpy New Spy Series
Gabriel Basso plays a young FBI agent whose dead-end assignment connects him to a deadly conspiracy in Shawn Ryan's adaptation of the novel by Matthew Quirk.
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Critics’ Conversation: ‘Succession’ Sets Up Its Endgame, Hilarity and Darkness Intact
The Hollywood Reporter TV critics Daniel Fienberg and Angie Han take a largely spoiler-free look at the start of the fourth and final season for HBO's Emmy-winning 'Succession.'
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‘Yellowjackets’ Review: Season 2 of Showtime Sensation Is Alternately Terrific and Tedious
The series starring Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis and many more returns for more '90s-set survival adventures and present-day mysteries.
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‘You Can Call Me Bill’ Review: Pensive Doc Shows a Different Side of William Shatner
Director Alexandre O. Philippe walks the actor through his career in a documentary that covers everything from 'Star Trek' to 'Boston Legal' to his trip into space.
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‘Lucky Hank’ Review: Bob Odenkirk Is Unsurprisingly Great in an AMC Campus Dramedy That’s Still Figuring Itself Out
Odenkirk plays the eternally frustrated head of a college English department in a series adaptation of Richard Russo's novel 'Straight Man.'
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‘TV’s Top 5’: Will There Be a Writers Strike? A Primer on What’s at Stake
Welcome to the 206th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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‘Agent Elvis’ Review: Matthew McConaughey Voices Elvis Presley in Supremely Silly Netflix Animated Comedy
Elvis moonlights as a globe-trotting secret agent in a new series featuring Priscilla Presley among its creators.
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‘The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution’ Review: A Punchy Primer on the Intersection of the Internet, Finance and Extremism
Director Ondi Timoner ('Last Flight Home') unveiled her latest documentary, an investigation into the toxicity of our current moment, at SXSW.
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‘Wild Life’ Review: ‘Free Solo’ Directors Deliver a Stirring Depiction of Conservationism Tinged With Loss
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's new documentary looks at the love story between Doug and Kris Tompkins and their quest to turn Chilean wilderness into national parks.
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‘Swarm’ Review: Dominique Fishback Is Brilliant in Amazon’s Slippery Horror-Comedy Hybrid
Janine Nabers and Donald Glover's new seven-part show stars Fishback as a young woman whose obsession with a Beyoncé-esque pop star gets out of hand.
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‘Being Mary Tyler Moore’ Review: A Reverent HBO Doc Honors a TV Trailblazer’s Contradictions
James Adolphus' documentary uses archival footage and audio interviews with peers, loved ones and admirers to put the spotlight on Moore as a star, a trailblazer and a person.
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