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There are plenty of biopics coming out in 2023—Oppenheimer, Maestro, Napoleon, just to name a few. But if you pick just one to watch this year, let it be Rustin, which began streaming on Netflix on Friday. Colman Domingo stars as Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civil rights leader whose contribution to the work of Martin Luther King Jr. and the...
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Netflix's pre-eminent period drama kicked off its final chapter this past week. The Crown Season 6 Part 1 follows the last weeks of Princess Diana's (Elizabeth Debicki) tragic life, showing how exactly she met and fell for Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla). The first three episodes of the sixth season are mostly about Diana. We see the tabloid frenzy...
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While we're all talking about David Fincher's latest release, The Killer, I suggest it's never a bad time to bring up one of his arguable masterpieces, The Social Network. Nobody gets slayed by Michael Fassbender in this one — although there are some pretty brutal one-liners from Jesse Eisenberg's Mark Zuckerberg — but it's a gripping drama...
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Where some shows make a tradition out of Christmas or Halloween episodes, Gossip Girl's Thanksgiving episodes were always the standouts — full of over-the-top drama, secrets coming to light, and more than a few brutal revelations — and the 2021 reboot was no exception. "Once Upon a Time in the Upper West" is the reboot's one and only...
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To say Fellow Travelers is simply excellent would be reductive, because the series is so much more: it's lavish and complex, somber and scary, gripping and downright sexy. The political romantic thriller is based on a novel by the same name that takes a well-known period of American history and views it through the fictional lens of a secret...
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NYAD, the new biopic now streaming on Netflix, hits on every feel-good, sports drama cliché you can think of, and yet I loved it anyhow. That's largely thanks to two powerhouse performances from Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, who star respectively as the real-life swimmer Diana Nyad and her coach, Bonnie Stoll. The movie tells the true story of...
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The Gilded Age Season 2 follows its old money, new money, and servant class characters through the drama that defined 1883. When the new season of the Julian Fellowes series begins, Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) is determined to get her family a box at the most important opera house in town. Will she manage to wrangle a seat at the establishment's...
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