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Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance
Mo Willems’s picture books often feature committed nonconformists — not the human kind, but the animal variety. Over the last two decades, he has invented a pigeon that’s determined to drive a bus, a pig that wants to fly and a cookie-baking dinosaur that doesn’t care that she’s extinct. Now, one of Willems’s most gently […]
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Discovery Closes In on Acquisition of WarnerMedia
“I am sure you aren’t surprised that it came with a fair amount of anxiety, disappointment and concern relative to the changes it would trigger,” he wrote. “All considered, I remain confident we have set the right path.” The creation of Warner Bros. Discovery could prompt changes among existing media companies, forcing smaller companies like […]
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‘Tokyo Vice’ Review: Another American in Translation
“Tokyo Vice” arrives on HBO Max wrapped in layers of nostalgia, beginning with its title, which sounds like a come-on from Cinemax’s late-night heyday. It’s a reasonably tasty hand roll of yakuza drama and turn-of-the-millennium American coming-of-age tale, and it is generous with the condiments that combination promises: full-body tattoos and missing fingers, point-and-shoot cameras […]
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‘Tokyo Vice’ Revisits a Faded Underworld
TOKYO — These days there are few visible signs of the yakuza in Kabukicho, the storied entertainment and red-light district in the heart of this churning metropolis of more than 37 million people — the biggest city in the world. Aggressive laws have weakened Japan’s organized crime syndicates and chased their aging, declining memberships into the shadows. But not […]
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‘KIMI’ Review: Sure She’s Paranoid, but Something Really Is Out There
Soderbergh rapidly plots the coordinates of Angela’s life, seamlessly in sync with Kravitz’s precise, sensitively controlled performance and David Koepp’s clever, streamlined script. After an enigmatic prelude, the setting shifts to Angela’s loft, a space that’s at once comfortably intimate and expansive enough that you can’t see all its dark corners at once. Even so, […]
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For One Last Season, Alia Shawkat Is the Life of ‘Search Party’
In the time that Alia Shawkat has played Dory Sief, the perpetually imperiled protagonist of “Search Party,” the actress has been repeatedly put to the test. Over the first four seasons of this dark comedy series, Dory obsessively chased a woman she wrongly believed was missing; she was blackmailed; she committed murder; she was put […]
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Review: In ‘Station Eleven,’ the World Ends, Beautifully
Things could always be worse, and in “Station Eleven,” they are. A powerful flu virus rips across the globe almost overnight, killing most of humanity. Twenty years later, the survivors are eking out a preindustrial life amid the ruins. But would you believe me if I told you that, somehow, things are also better? Or […]
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Mackenzie Davis Catches Fire
In one of Davis’s strongest scenes, Hamlet, as played by Kirsten, grieves his father’s death, standing on a makeshift stage surrounded by flickering candles. Staring into the darkness, Kirsten’s mind shifts to her childhood, when she learned that her parents were dead. Davis’s face holds both moments in her character’s life at once, past and […]
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Peloton Responds to ‘And Just Like That’ Appearance
This article contains spoilers for the premiere of “And Just Like That” on HBO Max. Peloton, a maker of high-end exercise equipment, was apparently just as surprised as you were by its appearance on “And Just Like That,” the new HBO Max limited series that picks up the story of “Sex and the City.” At […]
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