‘Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary’ review: More than an ironic musical pleasure
The HBO doc “Yacht Rock” examines the genre of soft rock that topped the charts between 1976 and 1984.
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‘The Agency’: Spy vs. spy with Michael Fassbender at the center
The espionage thriller “The Agency” on Paramount+ is gorgeously shot meditation on the toll of obscuring your identity for the CIA.
‘Get Millie Black’ review: In Jamaica, a police detective is haunted by threats old and new
Millie Black is a cop in Jamaica whose missing person case proves to be far more complicated and dangerous than anyone anticipates.
‘A Man on the Inside’ review: A retiree becomes a retirement home spy
Ted Danson plays a widower who is lonely and adrift who starts working for a private eye undercover at a retirement community in this Netflix comedy from Mike Schur.
‘Interior Chinatown’ review: Trapped in a police procedural, a background character breaks out
Charles Yu's adapts his surreal-comedic novel for Hulu, about a guy working his uncle's Chinatown restaurant who is actually a TV character trapped in the background of a police procedural.
‘Cross’ review: Forget coolly methodical, this version of Alex Cross is more intense
The Amazon series adapts James Patterson's Alex Cross novels, about a detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. Unlike previous screen incarnations, here he's a macho action man with a hero...
Column: Hollywood loves a scammer. But is there an appetite for a movie about a convicted cryptocurrency fraudster?
Lena Dunham is set to adapt Michael Lewis's book "Going Infinite" about Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX cryptocurrency entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud. Yet another scammer story.
‘St. Denis Medical’ review: New NBC sitcom is ‘The Office,’ but in a hospital
"St. Denis Medical" follows the overworked, sometimes incompetent staff of a small regional hospital in Oregon. It might take some time for the sitcom mockumentary to find its own voice...
Column: Hollywood is so lost it can’t even satirize itself. It’s time to rewatch HBO’s ‘The Comeback’ instead
HBO’s superhero movie satire “The Franchise” has no new ideas and it’s not even funny. Ironically, the 20-year-old Hollywood satire called “The Comeback” feels more timely.
‘Join or Die’ review: A documentary about why you should join a club — and why these social bonds are essential to democracy
The documentary “Join or Die” focuses on social scientist Robert Putnam and his theories about the value of joining clubs as a binding agent essential for democracy.