The Canadian domestic espionage drama is smarter and more sophisticated crime drama than the American counterparts of its era, cleverer in its tangle of narratives and less showy in its visual style.
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What to stream: ‘Anne’ of Netflix for families and ‘I Love Dick’ on Amazon for grown-ups
Kathryn Hahn, Griffun Dunne, and Kevin Bacon star in the new series I Love Dick, a comedy from Transparent creator Jill Soloway and playwright Sarah Grubbins. “It’s an experience as much as a story: arresting, disorienting and provocative,” writes The New York Times TV critic James Poniewozik, who describes the show as “art TV about […]
What to stream: Oscar winner ‘The Salesman’ on VOD, more ‘Sense8’ on Amazon, and new movies and TV for all
Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand Matthew McConaughey strikes Gold as entrepreneur Kenny Wells in this tale of American adventurism inspired by a true story that became an international financial scandal. Edgar Ramirez, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Corey Stoll co-star (R). Also on DVD and Blu-ray and at Redbox. Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian drama The Salesman, which won the […]
What to stream: Hulu’s riveting ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Dear White People’ on Netflix
It looks like Hulu has finally found its signature original series. The new original series The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the novel by Margaret Atwood and starring Elisabeth Moss as an enslaved women struggling to retain her identity in an oppressive dystopian dictatorship, is smart, compelling, and unnerving. The book was made into a well-meaning […]
What to stream: ‘Five Came Back’ on Netflix, ‘Fantastic Beasts’ on VOD
The three-part original documentary Five Came Back, based on the book by Mark Harris, explores how Hollywood filmmakers John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens documented World War II and how their experiences informed their lives and their work after the war “[T]he advantage the documentary has over the book is […]
What to stream: ‘Iron Fist’ disappoints, ‘Julie’s Greenroom’ inspires on Netflix
The buzz—for better and for worse—for the week in streaming debuts is over Iron Fist, the fourth original series in the Netflix Marvel superhero universe and the first to face disappointing reviews. Finn Jones stars as Danny Rand, the an American-born scion of a corporate billionaire who returns home after surviving a plane crash in […]
‘Rake: Series 1’ on Netflix and AcornTV
Rake is a pretty fair description of Richard Roxburgh’s Cleaver Greene, an Australian criminal barrister who tends toward unconventional methods in the courtroom and self-destructive behavior outside the courts. He’s once divorced, with a string of failed relationships (one with a former hooker now dating the tax attorney prosecuting him) and affairs, and it’s left […]
What to stream: ‘Jackie’ and ‘Moana’ on VOD and more
Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand Natalie Portman earned an Oscar nomination in Jackie as the widow of JFK in the days after his assassination. Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain brings his passion for political and social history to his American film debut and his perspective is illuminating. Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, and John Hurt co-star (R). […]
What to stream: ‘Santa Clarita Diet’ is people! and more on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO, and VOD
Suburban sitcom meets zombie comedy in the new Netflix original series Santa Clarita Diet, created by Victor Fresco (Better Off Ted). Drew Barrymore stars as a suburban wife and mother who wakes from a fatal fit with a sudden craving for human flesh and Timothy Olyphant as her resigned husband who is roused from apathy […]
What to stream: Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden,’ plus superheroes and more on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and HBO Now
Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand Joseph Gordon-Levitt is disillusioned idealist Edward J. Snowden in Snowden, Oliver Stone’s drama about the controversial NSA whistleblower. Framed by the famous meeting in a Hong Kong hotel room where Snowden (played with modest integrity by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) shared top-secret files revealing illegal surveillance programs with journalist Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and […]