May 29, 2019
Streaming highlights: May 2019
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‘When They See Us’ and ‘Catch-22’ examine flawed institutions, ‘Dead to Me’ astutely studies the living, and ‘Fleabag’ makes a must-see return
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May 1, 2019
Streaming highlights: April 2019
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‘Special’ and ‘Bonding’ look askance at sexual mores, ‘Killing Eve’ returns, and Beyoncé brings ‘Homecoming’ to Netflix
May 8, 2019
‘Veep’: No bad deed shall go punished
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The sharp comedy bows out as Trump takes politics beyond satire
May 1, 2019
Game of Thrones: Season 8
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HBO’s epic fantasy series reaches its martial conclusion
March 29, 2019
Streaming highlights: March 2019
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‘The OA’ amplifies the intrigue, Gregg Araki’s streaming debut ‘Now Apocalypse’, and the wealth porn of ‘Billions’ returns
March 1, 2019
Streaming highlights: February 2019
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Adolescent antiheroes in ‘Sex Education’ and ‘Pen15’, Eric Bana shines darkly in ‘Dirty John’, new ‘Counterpart’, and the irreverent charm of ‘Russian Doll’
February 12, 2019
A bug in the code: ‘Russian Doll’
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This existential comedy is 2019’s first must-see Netflix series
February 2, 2019
ABC TV’s ‘The Cry’
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This Scottish–Australian drama successfully subverts the missing-child genre
December 18, 2018
Alfonso Cuarón’s masterful ‘Roma’
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This Academy Award favourite elevates the domestic to the monumental
December 4, 2018
‘The Little Drummer Girl’: a masterclass in subterfuge
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‘Oldboy’ director Park Chan-wook takes on a le Carré spy drama, with genre-rattling results
December 1, 2018
‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
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For their Netflix debut, the Coen brothers return to the Western
November 6, 2018
Orson Welles’s ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ and Morgan Neville’s ‘They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead’
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The auteur’s messy mockumentary and the documentary that seeks to explain it are imperfect but better together
September 21, 2018
Paul Feig’s sophisticated ‘A Simple Favour’
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This camp study of sociopathy is far from simple