Netflix gets its own Law & Order with Criminal

  TV ReviewsAll of our TV reviews in one convenient place.   Congratulations to Netflix: After over seven years of commissioning original series, it finally got around to creating its own Law & Order. This isn’t intended as a slam on its new international production, Criminal, but rather a compliment. The long-running NBC procedural didn’t run…

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What We’re Watching This Week: “Wormwood,” “Alias Grace,” and “Fringe” | The New Yorker

react-text: 176 “Wormwood” /react-text react-text: 178 In 1958, my great-grandmother was mysteriously shot, and a couple of years ago I became obsessed with trying to piece together the muddled details of what happened. To figure out whether it was a suicide attempt, as the police believed, or something more sinister, I conducted newspaper-archive searches and…

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Will Smith’s Netflix blockbuster Bright is stunning in its audacity—and its stupidity

Photo: Netflix C- Bright Cast Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Lucy Fry, Noomi Rapace Availability Netflix December 22 Finally, high fantasy for the sunglasses-on-the-back-of-the-head set. If nothing else, you have to admire the audacity of the Netflix executives who greenlit Bright: The core conceit of this film—a violent, R-rated cop movie that just so happens to…

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