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Dark Matter Recap: Utopia
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Dark Matter Recap: Utopia
Dark Matter A Perfect World Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Dark Matter A Perfect World Season 2 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Jason, Daniela, and Charlie arrive in an idyllic world just as Amanda and Ryan leave another. At its core, Dark Matter is a series about the folly and hubris of humankind, even when — nay, especially when — idealists have the power to achieve transformative change.
Dark Matter Season-Premiere Recap: Escape From Chicago
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Dark Matter Season-Premiere Recap: Escape From Chicago
Dark Matter A Quiet Life Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Dark Matter A Quiet Life Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** The prime dimension’s Dessens learn that sticking it out in their home dimension will be more complicated than they’d hoped.
Stand by Me at 40: Rob Reiner's seminal coming-of-age saga remains a bittersweet triumph
Coming-of-age metaphors don't get any blunter than a group of preteen boys following a set of railroad tracks to a classmate's dead body, a sobering testament to the fragility of life and a sign that their own futures are not guaranteed. The Stephen King novella that would become Rob Reiner's Stand By Me is simply called The Body, and there's no doubt that commercial considerations factored into naming the film after the song that blankets the soundtrack.
Insidious: Out of the Further review – evil returns but so does boredom
When the Insidious franchise started in 2010, it felt like a liberating moment for director James Wan and writer (and later director) Leigh Whannell, the Australian duo who captured the zeitgeist with the original Saw movie, which imported the gonzo energy of low-budget Ozploitation flicks. As the partners quietly ceded control to other film-makers, the Saw sequels sunk into gross, dreary exercises in mechanized murder, and they moved on to other projects.
Cape Fear Finale Recap: Mistrial
Cape Fear The Executioners Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** Cape Fear The Executioners Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** Every clunky decision made this season culminates in a confusing, unsatisfying finale.
Cape Fear Recap: The Devil in the Door
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Cape Fear Recap: The Devil in the Door
Cape Fear The Scar Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Cape Fear The Scar Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** There’s a major class component to every adaptation of Cape Fear, because Max Cady is broadly framed as poor white trash and the Bowdens are wealthy pillars of the community, with a beautiful home, an ill-fated fluffy dog (in the films) or cat (in the TV series), and everything to lose.
Worst to Best: The Films of Christopher Nolan
In 1998, director Christopher Nolan began his career with a $6,000 crime thriller he shot in bits and pieces in 16mm over a series of weekends and now, less than three decades later, he’s shot a three-hour epic on IMAX cameras for $250 million.
Cape Fear Recap: Family Affairs
Cape Fear Los tiempos de Dios son Perfectos Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Cape Fear Los tiempos de Dios son Perfectos Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Cady might have gotten what he wanted, but now Anna finds herself with nothing left to lose. Perhaps the most significant difference between the TV Cape Fear and the two previous screen versions — as well as the source material, John D.
Cape Fear Recap: Product of Misconduct
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Cape Fear Recap: Product of Misconduct
Cape Fear Mongrel Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Cape Fear Mongrel Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** The Bowdens’ parenting decisions are so questionable that their children voluntarily side with the family’s tormenter. Early in this week’s episode of Cape Fear, Natalie Bowden has been sent away from the latest mortal threat to the Bowden family and asked to spend some time with Paul, the vaguely smarmy man that she’s long been told is her biological father.
Cape Fear Recap: A Painful Lesson
Cape Fear Possum Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Cape Fear Possum Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** “You’re gonna learn about loss,” Max Cady grumbles as Sam Bowden, his former defense attorney, pulls his car away in the 1991 Cape Fear. That’s the first encounter the two men have together after Cady’s release from prison, and the line is barely audible, as if he’s tucking a seed into Sam’s ear.
Cape Fear Recap: Problem Child
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Cape Fear Recap: Problem Child
Cape Fear Faith Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Cape Fear Faith Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** The Bowdens act like complete numbskulls in this episode because the plot requires them to do so. The one crucial difference between the 1962 Cape Fear and the 1991 Cape Fear is the Bowden family in the latter is wildly dysfunctional, which makes them more vulnerable to Max Cady’s slow-burn revenge scheme.
Cape Fear Recap: Strange Bedfellows
Cape Fear Pierced Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Cape Fear Pierced Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Anna’s reliance on Cady to use questionable methods to win a case puts her in a compromised position — one that was almost surely designed by Cady all along. In the two-screen versions of Cape Fear, Max Cady’s slow-burning revenge scheme against a lawyer and his family involves small acts of aggression and harassment before he finally goes for the throat.
Cape Fear Recap: Uneasy Alliance
Cape Fear Phantom Sensations Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Cape Fear Phantom Sensations Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** It looks like Cady isn’t operating alone, for better or worse. The 1991 Cape Fear was a much-needed hit for director Martin Scorsese, who’d enjoyed plenty of critical acclaim in the previous decade with films like Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, and GoodFellas, but had little mainstream success.
The best Steven Spielberg films, chosen by directors, critics and super-fans: ‘pure popcorn perfection’
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Steven Spielberg is often described as the inventor of the “event movie” – or as the creator of our new age of IP supremacy, in which the genre property is more important than any above-the-title film star. But that isn’t quite it. He came of age in the American new wave era but in spirit belonged neither to that nor fully to Hollywood’s golden age studio system that preceded it. In fact, he synthesised both into a directing style that was audacious and fluent.
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The best Steven Spielberg films, chosen by directors, critics and super-fans: ‘pure popcorn perfection’
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Spielberg’s early achievement was to bring about an evolutionary sea change, reinvigorating pulp-popular themes and ideas and giving them a new maturity and mainstream box office credibility. The idea of a giant shark crazed with a vindictive taste for human flesh or dinosaurs busting out of an amusement park is something that Roger Corman or Ed Wood Jr might have made in two weeks with risible rubber creatures. In Jaws and Jurassic Park, Spielberg’s production values were state of the art.
By Anne Billson, Peter Bradshaw Verified, Catherine Bray, Ryan Gilbey Verified, Simran Hans Verified, Stuart Heritage Verified, Ann Lee, Joseph McBride Verified, Sasha Mistlin, Gwilym Mumford Verified, Andrew Pulver Verified, Scott Tobias Verified, Edgar Wright
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Cape Fear Recap: Making a Monster
cape fear Why Would I Want to Hurt You? Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** cape fear Why Would I Want to Hurt You? Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Cady is just getting started in his revenge plot against the Bowdens, but we’re still left wondering what his motivations are. The Max Cady of the two Cape Fear movies — and the John D.
Cape Fear Series-Premiere Recap: Resurrection
Cape Fear Fingers & Toes Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Cape Fear Fingers & Toes Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Apple TV brings in heavyweights Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, and Patrick Wilson to remake a classic thriller for the streaming age.
The Audacity Season-Finale Recap: War Games
The Audacity Granfalloon Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** The Audacity Granfalloon Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** “Granfalloon” is now available on AMC+ ahead of its 9 p.m. ET broadcast next Sunday. There’s one good pungent little joke toward the end of the woefully misjudged finale of The Audacity, and it’s worth noting up front because its placement in the story is a large part of what makes it so effective.
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The Audacity recap: The kids aren't all right
Scott Tobias “ Foundering ” is now available on AMC+ ahead of its 9 p.m. ET broadcast next Sunday. ,, The relentless cynicism of The Audacity is perfectly justifiable, given that it's a satire about Silicon Valley produced at a time when hostility toward our tech-bro overlords has nearly reached the torch-and-pitchfork phase.
The Audacity Recap: Privacy is Not a Thing Anymore
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The Audacity Recap: Privacy is Not a Thing Anymore
The Audacity Sandbox Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** The Audacity Sandbox Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Duncan (Billy Magnussen) has a renewed sense of purpose now that he’s been knocked off his Hypergnosis perch. “Sandbox” is now available on AMC+ ahead of its 9 p.m. ET broadcast next Sunday.
The Audacity Recap: Bribe To Be
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The Audacity Recap: Bribe To Be
The Audacity The Lamplighters Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** The Audacity The Lamplighters Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Duncan’s public humiliation sends him and JoAnne into scramble mode. “The Lamplighters” is now available on AMC+ ahead of its 9 p.m. ET broadcast next Sunday. Everyone experiences moments of existential despair, when one bad day or cataclysmic event sends you into a headspace that’s some combination of panic and self-reflection.
The Audacity Recap: Privacy Notice
The Audacity Vanitas Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** The Audacity Vanitas Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** Duncan believes he’s just pulled a brilliant move without realizing he’s leaving himself vulnerable to another of JoAnne’s clients. “Vanitas” is now available on AMC+ ahead of its 9 p.m. ET broadcast next Sunday.
The Audacity Recap: Completely Typical
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The Audacity Recap: Completely Typical
The Audacity Valley of Heart’s Delight Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** The Audacity Valley of Heart’s Delight Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** The tension between Duncan and JoAnne hits a tipping point as they realize they are bound by mutually assured destruction. “Valley of Heart’s Delight” is now available on AMC+ ahead of its 9 p.m. ET broadcast next Sunday.
The Audacity Recap: Trust Fund Babies
The Audacity Shine Brightly Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** The Audacity Shine Brightly Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** The parents of Silicon Valley are inflicting a specific type of torture on their disgruntled children. “Shine Brightly” is now available on AMC+ ahead of its 9 p.m. ET broadcast next Sunday. There’s the briefest moment in the second episode of The Audacity where something in the general vicinity of human warmth is shared between two characters.
The Audacity Series-Premiere Recap: Breach of Trust
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The Audacity Series-Premiere Recap: Breach of Trust
The Audacity Best of All Possible Worlds Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** The Audacity Best of All Possible Worlds Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Jonathan Glatzer returns to the world of prestige television with a tech-world satire that speaks to the burning resentment the Palo Alto crowd inspires. “Best of All Possible Worlds” is now available on AMC+ ahead of its 9 p.m. ET broadcast premiere.
Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Winners, From ‘One Battle After Another’ to ‘Sinners’
After 30 years and 10 features that have put him near the apex of American cinema, director Paul Thomas Anderson finally broke through with Academy voters with “One Battle After Another,” his shaggy political thriller about a long-in-the-tooth revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio) called back into action after raising his teenage daughter (Chase Infiniti) in hiding.
Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Winners, From 'One Battle After Another' to 'Sinners'
After 30 years and 10 features that have put him near the apex of American cinema, director Paul Thomas Anderson finally broke through with Academy voters with "One Battle After Another," his shaggy political thriller about a long-in-the-tooth revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio) called back into action after raising his teenage daughter (Chase Infiniti) in hiding.
Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Winners, From ‘One Battle After Another’ to ‘Sinners’ Original
You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. Most of the awarded films, including the winner of best picture, can be watched at home. Here’s a guide to catch up. Chase Infiniti in “One Battle After Another.”Credit...Warner Bros.
In Review: ‘“Wuthering Heights”,’ ‘Pillion,’ ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,’ ‘Crime 101’
“Wuthering Heights” Dir. Emerald Fennell 136 min. “Wuthering Heights” writer and directorEmerald Fennell has said those quotation marks should be considered part of the title and it’s easy to see why. You can still find the original Wuthering Heights on bookshelves across the globe, but this is “Wuthering Heights,” a film that couldn’t exist without Emily Brontë’s novel yet one that’s not beholden to the source material, or really any idea of what a Wuthering Heights adaptation might look like.
Standing With Our Communities, Supporting All Immigrants
Today, businesses across the country are on strike against ICE. Our newsrooms will remain open to continue reporting, but we want to make it clear where Voice Media Group and our publications stand. Immigrants are a vital part of our community. Our employees. Our readers. Our members. And our advertisers. We support them today in the strike against ICE and the current administration’s surge in funding of this program, sending thousands of agents into U.S. communities.
Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Nominees
The nominees for the 98th Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, with "Sinners" receiving a record-breaking 16 nominations and "One Battle After Another" not far behind with 13. Both of those films are currently streaming on HBO Max -- it was a big year for the platform's parent company, Warner Bros. -- and are widely available for digital rental, along with the vast majority of nominees in major categories.
Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Nominees
The nominees for the 98th Academy Awards were announced on Thursday morning, with “Sinners” receiving a record-breaking 16 nominations and “One Battle After Another” not far behind with 13. Both of those films are currently streaming on HBO Max — it was a big year for the platform’s parent company, Warner Bros. — and are widely available for digital rental, along with the vast majority of nominees in major categories.
Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Nominees
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Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Nominees
The nominees for the 98th Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, with "Sinners" receiving a record-breaking 16 nominations and "One Battle After Another" not far behind with 13. Both of those films are currently streaming on HBO Max -- it was a big year for the platform's parent comedy, Warner Bros. -- and are widely available for digital rental, along with the vast majority of nominees in major categories.
The best films of 2025 … you may not have seen
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Samuel L Jackson in The Unholy Trinity.Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Endless Cookie There’s something almost self-fulfilling about Endless Cookie being an overlooked gem. The crudely animated Canadian documentary, directed by two half-brothers occupying separate worlds between Toronto and Shamattawa First Nation, lives in and finds its voice in the ellipses between typical narrative beats.
By Radheyan Simonpillai Verified, Jesse Hassenger, Veronica Esposito, Tammy Tarng, Pamela Hutchinson, Benjamin Lee Verified, Andrew Pulver Verified, Richard Lawson, Andrew Lawrence Verified, Scott Tobias Verified, Adrian Horton Verified
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Dancing! Fighting! Impregnating! The best movie moments of 2025
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The sacrifice – F1 Disclosure: I covered auto racing for years and still follow Formula One skeptically. I definitely went into F1: The Movie knowing what I was in for, an answer to the hypothetical: what if the bougiest sport on God's green earth was turned into a western? But you can't help going along for the ride once Brad Pitt starts filling the frame with his blue-eyed winks, wry smiles and Butch Cassidy swagger.
By Andrew Lawrence Verified, Tammy Tarng, Radheyan Simonpillai Verified, Pamela Hutchinson, Adrian Horton Verified, Jesse Hassenger Verified, Richard Lawson, Scott Tobias Verified, Veronica Esposito
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Pluribus Season-Finale Recap: The Last Temptation of Carol
Pluribus La Chica o El Mundo Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Pluribus La Chica o El Mundo Season 1 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** An impeccably wrought finale finds Carol allowing herself to consider the bliss of surrender versus making a hard sacrifice for mankind. This week’s episode premiered early and is now streaming on Apple TV.
Doctor Zhivago at 60: David Lean’s sweeping romantic relic endures
Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie in Doctor Zhivago.Photograph: Ken Danvers/MGM/Rex/Shutterstock There’s no more perfect illustration of the cinematic crossroads of the mid-1960s than the year Julie Christie had in 1965. First, she starred as an amoral model in John Schlesinger’s Darling, a snapshot of Swinging London that reflected the trendy, flashy, forward-thinking culture that had seduced young adults.
Pluribus Recap: Cards on the Table
Pluribus Charm Offensive Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** Pluribus Charm Offensive Season 1 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** When Carol beckoned Zosia’s return last week by painting “Come Back” in the cul de sac outside her home, it could be fairly interpreted as a moment of surrender, of a lonely woman needing the company that this beautiful representation of collective humanity provides.
Pluribus Recap: Cards on the Table
2 hours ago Rhea Seehorn and Karolina Wydra weigh in on the Carol-Zosia ship. But even with all the Others' courtship, make no mistake: Carol is still aware that the Others are pulling her strings, even if it's coming from a place of care. (Lest we forget, they chose Zosia as Carol's "chaperone" because her …
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