May 31 2019
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Joe Hill’s surreal and dreamlike NOS4A2 needed a Tim Burton sensibility, but it gets a Joel Schumacher one in the…
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Brian is the Editor of RogerEbert.com, President of the Chicago Film Critics Association, and a contributor to Vulture, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times.
Apr 7 2019
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Bob’s Burgers has often returned to the concept of the simplicity of a Bob Belcher burger. Sure, there may be witty…
Mar 20 2019
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Syfy’s Deadly Class had a rocky first season but ends in style, recalling everything from Kill Bill to The Texas…
Mar 13 2019
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We’ve talked a lot about the episodic tropes that Syfy’s Deadly Class is either falling into or subverting,…
Mar 6 2019
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The self-contained episodes of Deadly Class appear to be their best. A house party, a trip to Vegas, a lockdown at…
Feb 27 2019
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The first truly disappointing episode of Deadly Class, “Rise Above,” is a great example of how much pacing matters…
Feb 20 2019
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The kids of Kings Dominion are back from Vegas. Well, most of them are. Chico’s never coming back, even if his head…
Feb 13 2019
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Well, that’s more like it. The problem with the first four episodes of Syfy’s Deadly Class was that they talked a…
Feb 6 2019
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Maybe I’m just getting used to the voice of the TV version of Deadly Class, but the fourth episode of the Syfy hit…
Jan 30 2019
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Did the writers of Deadly Class really have to follow a house party episode with a school dance episode? Hopefully,…
Jan 23 2019
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The second episode of Syfy’s Deadly Class, a show that could have been pitched as “Harry Potter but with assassins…
Jan 17 2019
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Syfy’s breakneck Deadly Class filters the counterculture aesthetic of Reagan’s America to a generation raised on…
Sep 14 2018
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What started off feeling like a less ambitious, more juvenile season of American Vandal slowly revealed itself to be…
Sep 14 2018
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“I haven’t exactly been honest with you, Peter...”
Sep 14 2018
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What people who dismiss American Vandal as just puerile humor miss is that it’s much smarter than it looks from the…
Sep 14 2018
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Would a prestigious private school cover up a crime to protect their reputation and the status of one of their most…
Sep 14 2018
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At the halfway point of the second season of American Vandal, we have even less certainty over the answer to one of…
Sep 14 2018
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The writers of American Vandal turn the focus of this season from bullying to athletic privilege in the best episode…
Sep 14 2018
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The second episode of the new season of American Vandal deepened the mystery of the story of the Turd Burglar, first…
Sep 14 2018
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Last year’s brilliant first season of American Vandal didn’t just introduce the world to Baby Farting and the…