Tokyo Vice Goes to PressJake’s big exposé, and what it took to publish it, cements the series as a great gangster show that’s also a great journalism show.
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The Remorseless Mr. RipleyAndrew Scott’s phenomenal take on Patricia Highsmith’s con man anchors a deliciously mean adaptation.
3 Body Problem’s Imagination ProblemIn ignoring humanity’s wider reaction to the end of the world, the Netflix adaptation fails to find gravity in its final scene.
The Action Sofia Boutella Wants to SeeThe busiest woman in genre film is asking writers and editors to treat her face-smashing characters as seriously as she does.
Constellation Is a Mother of a Space StoryMove over, sad space dad. Noomi Rapace’s space mom is here to challenge assumptions about the galactic void as a place for self-discovery.
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Issa López Wants You to DecideThe showrunner calls True Detective: Night Country’s ambiguous ending “my gift and my curse.”
The Two NandorsThe meeting between What We Do in the Shadows’s loneliest vampire and his ghost exposes the fragile bonds between heritage, language, and identity.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith’s Faux Love StoryThe series’ open ending amounts to little more than anticlimax thanks its misrepresentation of what John and Jane really care about.
True Detective Crawls Back From the VoidAlmost ten years after a tracking-shot episode set an impossible standard, the HBO show is reinventing itself for the better.
