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'Maniac,' 'The Good Cop' give Netflix flawed dose of star power

8 years 1 month ago
Netflix's deluge of original series is such that it's now doubling up on high-profile premieres, with the same-day arrival of "Maniac" -- starring Jonah Hill and Emma Stone -- and "The Good Cop," featuring Tony Danza. Each falls short for disparate reasons, as the first show has moments but suffers from a surplus of arty ambition, while the latter feels too much like the third or fourth best series on USA network.

Michael Moore turns up the heat in 'Fahrenheit 11/9'

8 years 1 month ago
Michael Moore weaves together threads spanning his entire filmmaking career in assembling "Fahrenheit 11/9," which is both its emotional strength and its structural weakness. The director connects multiple strands in building a case for activism around the election of Donald Trump, but it's an at-times disjointed, scatter-shot journey -- one designed to antagonize his critics, and get those who feel they're slowly going mad watching cable news to nod along.

'This is Us' creator stumbles into melodrama 'Life Itself'

8 years 1 month ago
"This is Us" creator Dan Fogelman has inadvertently provided a stark lesson on key differences between TV and movies with "Life Itself," the new film that he wrote and directed. Featuring similar emotional beats, the movie suffers by cramming all that melodrama into a confined space, heightening the sense of manipulation to what feels like absurd levels.
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