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tv In its return, Vikings pulls its characters from the brink, only to send one over again
By Dennis Perkins December 30, 2020 | 1:00pm
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games Dragomino Turns a Beloved Board Game into a Child-Friendly Treat
By Keith Law December 29, 2020 | 12:00pm
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tv An improved second season of His Dark Materials stumbles a bit at the finish line
By Myles McNutt December 29, 2020 | 3:00am
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tv Cobra Kai karate chops its way back to broad, dumb fun with an improved season 3
By Alex McLevy December 28, 2020 | 8:01am
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tv Death To 2020 offers an unnecessary summary of a miserable year
By Zack Handlen December 27, 2020 | 12:00pm
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film Robert Rodriguez goes back to the kids’ table with the sweet but chintzy We Can Be Heroes
By Jesse Hassenger December 25, 2020 | 8:00am
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tv Everything goes wrong on a messy Star Trek: Discovery
By Zack Handlen December 24, 2020 | 3:00pm
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tv The Stand finds more solid ground in “Pocket Savior”
By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 24, 2020 | 2:00pm
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tv Next goes out with a bang
By Gwen Ihnat December 23, 2020 | 3:30am
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tv After elevating its storytelling, His Dark Materials has a bit of a letdown in the season's penultimate hour
By Myles McNutt December 22, 2020 | 3:00am
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tv Shondaland’s Bridgerton rips the bodice right off
By Gwen Ihnat December 21, 2020 | 8:00pm
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film The moving Irish family drama Herself puts hardship and hope on equal footing
By Anya Stanley December 21, 2020 | 6:20pm
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film Vanessa Kirby simmers with grief in the loud but hollow Pieces Of A Woman
By Beatrice Loayza December 21, 2020 | 4:00pm
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film There’s not enough action (or Wonder Woman!) in Wonder Woman 1984
By Katie Rife December 21, 2020 | 6:00am
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tv Look, we're also shocked Frank is the most interesting part of this week's Shameless
By Myles McNutt December 21, 2020 | 3:00am
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tv Kristen Wiig closes out Saturday Night Live's 2020 with some of the same old favorites
By Dennis Perkins December 20, 2020 | 11:08am
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tv No one’s ever really gone in a mostly satisfactory Mandalorian finale
By Mike Vanderbilt December 18, 2020 | 7:47pm
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film Tessa Thompson shines in the old-school Hollywood romance Sylvie’s Love
By Vikram Murthi December 18, 2020 | 4:00pm
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film Anthony Hopkins delivers the most heartbreaking performance of his career in The Father
By A.A. Dowd December 18, 2020 | 3:09pm
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tv The Watch will disappoint Discworld fans—and maybe everybody else, too
By William Hughes December 18, 2020 | 2:00pm
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film Michael Ealy has a fatal attraction to Hilary Swank in the entertainingly dumb noir Fatale
By Jesse Hassenger December 18, 2020 | 2:00pm
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games The Great Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun Is a Heavy Board Game That's Not Too Heavy
By Keith Law December 18, 2020 | 12:50pm
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film Armageddon is free family therapy in the Gerard Butler disaster movie Greenland
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 17, 2020 | 11:00pm
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film The grim and grisly Hunter Hunter earns its unforgettable ending
By Randall Colburn December 17, 2020 | 4:15pm
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tv Georgiou tries to mend her ways on a too-long Discovery
By Zack Handlen December 17, 2020 | 3:00pm
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tv The Stand wavers at the beginning of the end of the world
By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 17, 2020 | 2:00pm
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games Orwell's Animal Farm Is a Safe, Stale Videogame Adaptation of the Literary Classic
By Grace Benfell December 17, 2020 | 9:30am
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tv Steve McQueen’s Education presents a moving history lesson on racial bias
By Jourdain Searles December 16, 2020 | 2:00pm
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film Paul W.S. Anderson brings more video game mayhem to the big screen with Monster Hunter
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 16, 2020 | 2:00pm
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games Twin Mirror Lacks the Usual Dontnod Charm
By Holly Green December 16, 2020 | 11:40am
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tv It’s "A Good Day To Die" for Big Sky—even if just for the winter
By LaToya Ferguson December 16, 2020 | 10:20am
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tv The Stand is an admirably bold, often messy adaptation of Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic epic
By Randall Colburn December 15, 2020 | 4:15pm
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tv The sky is falling on another great season of The Expanse
By Zack Handlen December 15, 2020 | 3:00pm
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tv His Dark Materials cuts a new window into Coulter's worldview in another standout episode
By Myles McNutt December 15, 2020 | 3:00am
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film Promising Young Woman is eye candy with a razor blade inside
By Katie Rife December 14, 2020 | 8:30pm
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tv Netflix’s Tiny Pretty Things has sex on the mind but little else
By Shannon Miller December 14, 2020 | 5:00pm
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music Taylor Swift’s deeply affecting evermore continues folklore’s rich universe-building
By Annie Zaleski December 14, 2020 | 3:45pm
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tv Shameless continues to test the viability of a no-stakes final season
By Myles McNutt December 14, 2020 | 3:00am
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tv Timothée Chalamet amiably pals around with Pete Davidson on a middling Saturday Night Live
By Dennis Perkins December 13, 2020 | 11:27am
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film Tom Hanks is the conscience of a divided nation in the old-school Western News Of The World
By A.A. Dowd December 11, 2020 | 10:30pm
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tv Lines get blurred as The Mandalorian goes deep undercover
By Katie Rife December 11, 2020 | 8:36pm
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film The first movie inspired by the pandemic is here, and it sucks
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 10, 2020 | 9:00pm
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tv Georgiou takes the lead in a curious Star Trek: Discovery
By Zack Handlen December 10, 2020 | 3:00pm
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games Shadowrun for the Sega Genesis Captures the Cyberpunk Spirit of the Tabletop Game
By Dia Lacina December 10, 2020 | 12:10pm
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tv NBC’s Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Musical! stink, stank, stunk
By Caroline Siede December 10, 2020 | 5:25am
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film 2020 gets its Serenity with the epic “WTF?” of Wild Mountain Thyme
By Katie Rife December 9, 2020 | 9:00pm
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film Farm life is beautiful and brutal in Gunda, a wordless documentary Babe
By A.A. Dowd December 9, 2020 | 4:05pm
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games Immortals Fenyx Rising Is Unapologetically Fun—And Here's Why That's Great
By Jessica Howard December 9, 2020 | 3:20pm
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tv How Can You Mend A Broken Heart shows there’s more to the Bee Gees than disco
By Gwen Ihnat December 9, 2020 | 2:00pm
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film George Clooney returns with the strangely moving sci-fi melodrama The Midnight Sky
By Jesse Hassenger December 9, 2020 | 2:00pm
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tv Big Sky continues to draw out its plot, all in the name of "Unfinished Business"
By LaToya Ferguson December 9, 2020 | 9:00am
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film Narrative coincidences distract from Farewell Amor’s thoughtful immigration story
By Roxana Hadadi December 8, 2020 | 9:00pm
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film Meryl Streep improvises on the ocean in Steven Soderbergh’s playful Let Them All Talk
By Mike D'Angelo December 8, 2020 | 8:00pm
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film Steven Yeun is a family man chasing the American dream in the soulful if lopsided Minari
By Beatrice Loayza December 8, 2020 | 6:10pm
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tv Alex Wheatle is the latest revelation from Steve McQueen’s Small Axe
By Aramide Tinubu December 8, 2020 | 2:00pm
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tv The introduction of the Subtle Knife is His Dark Materials' finest hour so far
By Myles McNutt December 8, 2020 | 3:00am
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film A former pop star journeys To The Ends Of The Earth in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s terrific new film
By Lawrence Garcia December 7, 2020 | 7:30pm
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tv 40 Years A Prisoner is a potent reminder of the long road to criminal justice reform
By Robert Daniels December 7, 2020 | 7:00pm
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tv HBO Max’s House Of Ho is a bleak portrayal of life as a crazy rich Asian
By Priyanka Bose December 7, 2020 | 5:05pm
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tv Moonbase 8's improvisational spirit shines in its satisfying final episodes
By Randall Colburn December 7, 2020 | 5:00am
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tv Bryan Cranston brings familiar fatherly gravitas to the dour pulp of Your Honor
By Dennis Perkins December 7, 2020 | 4:00am
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tv A pandemic-fueled premiere suggests Shameless is still content to limp to the finish line in its final season
By Myles McNutt December 7, 2020 | 3:00am
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tv Jason Bateman returns to host a low-key but pandemic-centric Saturday Night Live
By Jesse Hassenger December 6, 2020 | 8:04am
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tv The Mandalorian loses control as season 2 rockets towards a finale
By Katie Rife December 4, 2020 | 9:11pm
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film Rachel Brosnahan is a moll on the run in refreshingly feminine gangster yarn I’m Your Woman
By Katie Rife December 4, 2020 | 6:00pm
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tv Euphoria shines brightest in its stripped-down special episode
By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 4, 2020 | 5:55pm
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tv The Great British Baking Show: Holidays focuses on charm over polish for season three
By Kate Kulzick December 4, 2020 | 5:36pm
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film Black Bear is two dramas in one, and Aubrey Plaza is great in both of them
By A.A. Dowd December 4, 2020 | 3:35pm
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tv Red, White And Blue doesn’t offer any answers to brazen systemic racism, and it shouldn’t
By Shannon Miller December 4, 2020 | 12:00pm
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tv The Unicorn gets topical with some help from director Matthew A. Cherry
By Danette Chavez December 4, 2020 | 4:16am
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film Hackneyed tearjerker All My Life plays like an adaptation of a “Live, Laugh, Love” sign
By Carlos Aguilar, Carlos Aguilar December 3, 2020 | 5:00pm
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film Frances McDormand finds a new life on the road in the sublime Nomadland
By Katie Rife December 3, 2020 | 4:00pm
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film Mads Mikkelsen gets smashed on life (and booze) in the day-drinker drama Another Round
By A.A. Dowd December 3, 2020 | 3:35pm
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tv Star Trek: Discovery gets better the more it widens its horizons
By Zack Handlen December 3, 2020 | 3:00pm
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tv Hulu’s Hardy Boys cracks the case of the welcome reboot
By Gwen Ihnat December 3, 2020 | 2:00pm
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film Isla Fisher gets her own Enchanted in the Disney Plus fairy tale Godmothered
By Caroline Siede December 2, 2020 | 5:00pm
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film The gripping 76 Days chronicles the chaotic start of the COVID-19 outbreak
By Mike D'Angelo December 2, 2020 | 3:35pm
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tv Selena: The Series can’t capture the ground-breaking spirit of the Queen Of Tejano
By Kayla Sutton December 2, 2020 | 2:00pm
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tv In Big Sky, no matter how hard you try, you can't keep "The Big Rick" down
By LaToya Ferguson December 2, 2020 | 11:00am
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tv Next veers into the bizarre with multiple John Slatterys and DIY shock therapy
By Gwen Ihnat December 2, 2020 | 3:00am
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film Mayor finds cringe comedy and dread in the business of running a Palestinian city
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 1, 2020 | 8:00pm
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film Don’t look for Superintelligence, or even mild cleverness, in Melissa McCarthy’s new sci-fi comedy
By Jesse Hassenger December 1, 2020 | 6:00pm
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film An all-star cast goes to The Prom in Ryan Murphy’s insufferable Broadway adaptation
By Jesse Hassenger December 1, 2020 | 3:00pm
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tv Big Mouth season 4 shatters friendships and feelings, then embraces the pieces
By Emily L. Stephens December 1, 2020 | 2:00pm
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tv Daddy issues multiply in His Dark Materials’ land of daemons and dust
By Myles McNutt December 1, 2020 | 3:00am
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games The Unique Pendulum Is an Ingenious Board Game
By Keith Law November 30, 2020 | 10:35am
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tv The future crashes into the past when SpaceX arrives on Moonbase 8
By Randall Colburn November 30, 2020 | 4:30am
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tv Walking Dead: World Beyond finally gets good, just in time for the season finale
By Alex McLevy November 30, 2020 | 4:25am
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tv The Undoing offers up answers but not enough resolution in a car chase-filled finale
By Lisa Weidenfeld November 30, 2020 | 4:22am
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tv Fargo ends season four with no alarms and few surprises
By Zack Handlen November 30, 2020 | 4:00am
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tv The Child has a name in a Kurosawa-influenced Mandalorian
By Mike Vanderbilt November 27, 2020 | 8:31pm
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tv The Great British Baking Show says goodbye to the bubble with a genial, gentle “Final”
By Kate Kulzick November 27, 2020 | 6:00pm
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tv My Psychedelic Love Story is a slight tribute to Timothy Leary’s “Acid Queen”
By Vikram Murthi November 27, 2020 | 2:00pm
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games Ikenfell Embraces Sincerity in All Its Awkwardness
By Jessica Howard November 27, 2020 | 11:35am
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tv Star Trek: Discovery remains stuck in orbit around itself
By Zack Handlen November 26, 2020 | 3:00pm
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tv Kaley Cuoco takes a trip back to blue sky TV on The Flight Attendant
By Danette Chavez November 25, 2020 | 10:00pm
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tv A charming narrator and an inclusive group of suitors make 12 Dates Of Christmas a gift
By Gwen Ihnat November 25, 2020 | 4:00pm
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film Soul is a sweet mash-up of earlier, deeper Pixar
By A.A. Dowd November 25, 2020 | 3:30pm
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tv HBO reclaims its true-crime crown with 5 tales of murder, mayhem, and mystery
By Katie Rife November 25, 2020 | 2:00pm
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games Minecraft's Star Wars DLC Features Impressive Builds, But Is Weird to See on the Marketplace
By Nicolas Perez November 25, 2020 | 8:30am
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tv With the twist in the rearview, Big Sky now has "Nowhere To Run"
By LaToya Ferguson November 25, 2020 | 5:00am
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tv A fractured Next falls apart
By Gwen Ihnat November 25, 2020 | 3:05am
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film Stardust, the Bowie biopic without any Bowie songs, is velvet garbage
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 24, 2020 | 8:57pm
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film Alan Ball’s Uncle Frank smothers a great performance with lazy condescension
By Allison Shoemaker November 24, 2020 | 8:00pm
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tv Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is just the party 2020 needs
By Stephen Robinson November 24, 2020 | 2:00pm
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tv The Crown ends an era with an ominous Christmas
By Caroline Siede November 24, 2020 | 2:00pm
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tv A muddled Magisterium raises doubts about His Dark Materials’ commitment to its source material
By Myles McNutt November 24, 2020 | 3:00am
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film An unnecessary sequel to The Croods still has some prehistoric fun
By Jesse Hassenger November 23, 2020 | 5:00pm
