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HBO's 'Mommy Dead and Dearest' is true crime at its best

9 years 5 months ago
TV's infatuation with true crime can be traced to "Making a Murderer" and "The Jinx," but precious little rises to that level. HBO scales those heights and then some with "Mommy Dead and Dearest," a twisted and twisty documentary that's as unsettling as it is absorbing.

'Snatched' fumbles Amy Schumer-Goldie Hawn pairing

9 years 5 months ago
Amy Schumer's promising starring debut in "Trainwreck" hits the brakes in "Snatched," a rail-thin comedy most notable for the comic's Mother's Day-adjacent pairing with Goldie Hawn. Heavy on sight gags, the movie delivers some raunchy laughs, but they arrive so sporadically as to make for a bumpy ride.

'King Arthur' loses fight to revise Camelot saga

9 years 5 months ago
Fidelity to the Camelot legend shouldn't be a prerequisite for "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword." Rudimentary logic, however, would be nice, in a numbing film seemingly determined to reshape the source into a poor man's "Lord of the Rings," proving that tinkering with such familiar origins can indeed be a double-edged sword.

'I Love Dick' flips script on sexual obsession

9 years 5 months ago
Women have so often been portrayed as objects of desire in movies and literature that turning the tables still seems rather thrilling. That's the underlying conceit in Amazon's "I Love Dick," an adaptation of Chris Kraus's 20-year-old memoir that revels in its off-kilter tone, and derives most of its strength from its trio of central performances.
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