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'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' shows Marvel's 'WandaVision' wasn't a blip

5 years 7 months ago
Marvel has seemingly cracked the code for its streaming efforts, seizing on underdeveloped threads and relationships from its blockbuster movies and giving them room (OK, about six hours) to breathe on Disney+. After the risk-taking format of "WandaVision," "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" feels more conventional based strictly on its muscular premiere, while offering a welcome showcase for Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan.

'Calls' dials streaming TV back to what creepily feels like radio drama

5 years 7 months ago
The newish medium of streaming is perhaps inevitably taking TV to its logical endpoint -- namely, a weird return back to radio. At least, that's the sense watching (or really, listening to) "Calls," an Apple TV+ throwback to Orson Welles' famous "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast mixed with "The Twilight Zone," reminding us that sometimes what you hear is scarier than what you see.

'Operation Varsity Blues' takes on the college admissions scandal

5 years 7 months ago
Despite the can't-miss subject matter, "Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal" makes a near-fatal misstep, heavily using dramatic recreations in a way that leaves this Netflix production somewhere between Lifetime movie and documentary. The salacious aspects of the scandal still earn a passing grade, but due to the unwieldy hybrid format, just barely.
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