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‘Fear Street Part Three: 1666’ ends trilogy with panache

“Fear Street Part Three: 1666” goes back to Colonial New England to wrap up Netflix’s three-week trilogy. If “Part One: 1994” was like “Scream” and

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‘Fear Street Part Two: 1978’ has a great look, thin story

“Fear Street Part Two: 1978” (Netflix) boasts slick but evocative production design as it takes its three-part story back in time without adding much to

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In Pratt’s ‘Tomorrow War,’ war is hella awesome

A military woman in “The Tomorrow War” (Amazon Prime) tells a new draftee why they haven’t released photos of the alien invaders to the public.

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‘Fear Street Part One: 1994’ is slick (and sick) product

“Fear Street Part One: 1994” (Netflix), the first of a trilogy that continues over the next two Fridays, is a slick corporate product based on

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Odenkirk’s ‘Nobody’ is somebody worth watching

Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman finds clever ways out of scrapes. He’s not wired to fight back physically or with gunfire. At first blush, “Nobody’s” Hutch

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‘In the Heights’ not quite great, but hard to hate

“In the Heights” (HBO Max and theaters), the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2005 stage musical, asks a viewer to commit to the NYC neighborhood

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Winslet leads stellar cast in gripping ‘Mare of Easttown’

The plot of “Mare of Easttown” (April-May, HBO) is nothing we haven’t seen before. Nor is its moody vibe of a small, troubled community wracked

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‘Awake’ a woke but tired spin on the apocalypse

“Awake” (Netflix) has one of those premises that could turn out ingenious or stupid, but it unfortunately leans more toward the latter. In an unneeded

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‘Devil Made Me Do It’ cursed by high ‘Conjuring’ bar

The first two “Conjuring” films ranked in my top 10s in 2013 and 2016. Despite a bevy of spinoff films in the interim, expectations were

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With 2 episodes left, 10 ‘Cruel Summer’ questions

Freeform is pushing the hashtags #IBelieveJeanette and #IBelieveKate in its “Cruel Summer” (Tuesdays) promotions. But I believe it’s unlikely that one is the villain and

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