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‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Review: Paul Reubens Explores Pee-wee Herman, and His Own Identity…
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‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ Review: Latest Ukraine Doc From ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ Helmer Packs a Visceral, Existential Punch
Mstyslav Chernov returns to Sundance with a new story of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the slow, deadly effort to liberate a tiny village.
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Critic’s Notebook: By Turns Predictable and Unhinged, Inauguration Tells a Tale of Two Trumps
The 2025 inauguration of Donald Trump featured a Comic-Con-esque official speech, followed by a longer, less filtered address to supporters.
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‘The Hunting Party’ Review: NBC’s Serial Killer Procedural Is a Deadly Bore
Generic serial killers escape from a generic supermax prison and are pursued by a generic team of investigators in this drama starring Melissa Roxburgh.
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‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Review: Paul Reubens Explores Pee-wee Herman, and His Own Identity, in Revealing HBO Doc
Culled from 40 hours of interviews and thousands of hours of archival footage, Matt Wolf's doc gives Paul Reubens his own posthumous spotlight.
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‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ Review: Latest Ukraine Doc From ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ Helmer Packs a Visceral, Existential Punch
Mstyslav Chernov returns to Sundance with a new story of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the slow, deadly effort to liberate a tiny village.
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Critic’s Notebook: By Turns Predictable and Unhinged, Inauguration Tells a Tale of Two Trumps
The 2025 inauguration of Donald Trump featured a Comic-Con-esque official speech, followed by a longer, less filtered address to supporters.
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‘The Hunting Party’ Review: NBC’s Serial Killer Procedural Is a Deadly Bore
Generic serial killers escape from a generic supermax prison and are pursued by a generic team of investigators in this drama starring Melissa Roxburgh.
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‘The Couple Next Door’ Review: Sam Heughan Smolders in Starz’s Ludicrous Polyamory Thriller
Eleanor Tomlinson, Alfred Enoch and Jessica De Gouw join the 'Outlander' star in this six-episode chronicle of steamy, eventually violent misadventures.
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‘American Primeval’ Review: Betty Gilpin Leads Netflix’s Relentlessly Brutal Peter Berg-Helmed Western Miniseries
Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.
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‘Shifting Gears’ Review: Tim Allen and Kat Dennings Are Stuck in Neutral in ABC’s Family Sitcom
Yep, it's another story of a conservative father and a somewhat more liberal daughter having to end a lengthy estrangement.
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Critic’s Notebook: An Assured Nikki Glaser Boosts an Improved Golden Globes Telecast
The host was game and some of the speeches were stirring, though the Globes still struggled with pacing, presenter banter and strange production choices.
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‘The Pitt’ Review: Noah Wyle Scrubs in for Max’s Effective ‘ER’-Adjacent Medical Procedural
Hailing from 'ER' vets including R. Scott Gemmill and John Wells, the 15-episode real-time series follows the doctors and nurses at a Pittsburgh trauma center.
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‘Going Dutch’ Review: Denis Leary’s Fox Military Comedy Needs More Basic Training
'Brockmire' mastermind Joel Church-Cooper created this new half-hour sitcom about a military base of misfits in the Netherlands.
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‘Lockerbie: A Search for Truth’ Review: Colin Firth Lends Depth to a Peacock Historical Drama That Sorely Needs It
The first of this year's two miniseries about the 1988 Lockerbie bombing focuses on a father's grief-fueled investigation.
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‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Review: Netflix’s South Korean Smash Loses Its Edge
Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk and Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae are back for more death-defying games and nefariously masked villains as the series returns after a three-year absence.
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The 10 Best TV Performances of 2024
THR's critics celebrate their favorite small-screen turns of the year, from character actors getting their day in the sun and relative newcomers in star-making turns to familiar faces plumbing fresh depths.
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The 10 Best TV Episodes of 2024
THR critics run down their favorite small-screen installments of the year, including an impassioned and insightful documentary, a breathless Christmas detour, a brilliant fake finale and a couple of real ones.
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‘Laid’ Review: Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet Liven up Peacock’s Uneven Sex-and-Death Comedy
A 30something woman discovers that her exes are dying off one by one in a series created by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna ('Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23').
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best TV Shows of 2024
Favorites include a surreal trip through New York, a sweet slice-of-life comedy, a heartfelt sports doc and a slew of sumptuous literary adaptations.
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