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There's A Monster At Both Ends Of This Boat: 'Below Deck Mediterranean'

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There's A Monster At Both Ends Of This Boat: 'Below Deck Mediterranean'

September 30, 2019 • The Bravo show Below Deck Mediterranean is the goofiest, soapiest show about the hospitality industry you're likely to find. And it might care even more about place settings than Downton Abbey.

'The Politician' Digs For The Drama In High School Politics

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'The Politician' Digs For The Drama In High School Politics

September 27, 2019 • Ryan Murphy's first project for Netflix stars Tony winner Ben Platt as a young man who plans to be president of the United States and will let nothing stop him.

Yokels Attempt To Hide A Deadly Mistake In 'The Death Of Dick Long'

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Yokels Attempt To Hide A Deadly Mistake In 'The Death Of Dick Long'

September 26, 2019 • Daniel Scheinert — half of the team behind 2016's Swiss Army Man — directs this sweet but "lumpy and formless" dark comedy.

In Anti-Terror Satire 'The Day Shall Come,' Whimsy Blunts The Cutting Edge

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In Anti-Terror Satire 'The Day Shall Come,' Whimsy Blunts The Cutting Edge

September 26, 2019 • A Miami preacher becomes the target of an FBI sting operation in director Christopher Morris' disappointing follow-up to his blistering comedy Four Lions.

6 1/2 Reasons 'Between Two Ferns: The Movie' Defies The Sketch-Into-Movie Curse

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6 1/2 Reasons 'Between Two Ferns: The Movie' Defies The Sketch-Into-Movie Curse

September 26, 2019 • The Between Two Ferns movie that dropped last week on Netflix expands on the Web series' proven formula, but its sheer joke density rewards repeat viewings.

'The Good Place' Starts Its Final Approach

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'The Good Place' Starts Its Final Approach

September 26, 2019 • The fourth and final season of NBC's audacious comedy about the afterlife starts on Thursday night, and it's got demons, memory loss and a whole lot more.

Disney CEO Bob Iger Has Lessons On Fostering Creativity — And Acquiring It

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Disney CEO Bob Iger Has Lessons On Fostering Creativity — And Acquiring It

September 26, 2019 • The head of The Walt Disney Co. has a new book, The Ride of a Lifetime. It's a memoir of what he has learned in 15 years there — encompassing the purchases of Pixar, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox.

Disney CEO Bob Iger Has Lessons On Fostering Creativity — And Acquiring It

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In Golden Age Hollywood, Film Stars Slid Into Each Others' Telegrams

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In Golden Age Hollywood, Film Stars Slid Into Each Others' Telegrams

September 25, 2019 • The new book Letters from Hollywood offers a peek inside the inner workings of the film industry through 137 communiques from luminaries like Audrey Hepburn, Bette Davis and a very young Jane Fonda.

In Golden Age Hollywood, Film Stars Slid Into Each Others' Telegrams

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'Fleabag' And 'Game Of Thrones' Win Big At The Emmys

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'Fleabag' And 'Game Of Thrones' Win Big At The Emmys

September 23, 2019 • Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag and the departing Game of Thrones both came up big Sunday night, as did Chernobyl and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

'Blinking Guy' Channels Meme Fame Into Multiple Sclerosis Fundraiser

September 22, 2019 • If you've been on social media in the past two years, you've probably seen Drew Scanlon's face as the "blinking white guy" gif. He's now raising money for multiple sclerosis research.

'Blinking Guy' Channels Meme Fame Into Multiple Sclerosis Fundraiser

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Some 'Podunk' Town In The Middle Of Nowhere

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Some 'Podunk' Town In The Middle Of Nowhere

September 20, 2019 • "Podunk" is supposed to be bleak and isolated. But there are a few things that people who use the term might not know. For one, it really exists. For another, its history predates the United States.

'Loro': Sorrentino's Portrait Of Berlusconi As A Once-Powerful Lion In Winter

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'Loro': Sorrentino's Portrait Of Berlusconi As A Once-Powerful Lion In Winter

September 19, 2019 • This "stylish but overloaded satire is less sober narrative than drunken tone poem — a buzzing, throbbing attempt to simulate" what it was like inside the mogul-turned-prime-minister's circle.

Documentary 'Where's My Roy Cohn?' Suggests He's Closer Than You Think

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Documentary 'Where's My Roy Cohn?' Suggests He's Closer Than You Think

September 19, 2019 • Matt Tyrnaeur's documentary posits that Cohn, a notoriously ruthless and amoral political operative, set the ground rules by which today's politics play out.

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'Ad Astra' Soars

September 19, 2019 • Distance — both interplanetary and emotional — is the subject of James Gray's "stirring sci-fi epic" that stars Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones.

In The 'Downton Abbey' Film, A Royal Visit Proves Rather A Spot Of Bother

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In The 'Downton Abbey' Film, A Royal Visit Proves Rather A Spot Of Bother

September 19, 2019 • The new film is "less a victory lap than a cakewalk." Everything about the TV series — those aspects you loved, and those you didn't — is reproduced here with astonishing fidelity.