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The 5 Best New TV Shows Our Critic Watched in October 2021
As October nears its spooky, sugar-saturated end, one thing is clear: it hasn’t been a very good month for new TV shows. Maybe you were too busy bingeing on horror movies or wolfing down HBO’s most exciting Sunday-night lineup in years (Succession, Insecure, Curb Your Enthusiasm) to notice, but it’s true. Whether it’s because platforms…
The Souvenir Part II Captures the Ragged Beauty of the 1980s Like No Other Film
Every event is one thing and a thousand things—one thing as you’re living it, and a thousand things as, in the years afterward, you remember it. If Joanna Hogg’s 2019 film The Souvenir is the thing, The Souvenir Part II speaks of the thousand things that come after, the kaleidoscope mosaic of broken bits we…
After a Limp First Season, William Jackson Harper Revitalizes HBO Max Rom-Com Anthology Love Life
Harper's Marcus Watkins is lost in the woods, not just single, but also fundamentally confused about who he is and what he wants out of life.
With The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson Overindulges on Whimsy—But His Heart Is in the Right Place
Few filmmakers are as in love with olden times as Wes Anderson is. That’s both a thing to admire about him and a source of deep exasperation. As we barrel so cluelessly and ruthlessly through the present and into the future, it’s true that the past needs fans, people who remember a time when turning…
From The Ashes BBQ – Hackney Wicks secret hatch
From the Ashes BBQ From The Ashes BBQ was born when three chefs Frank Fellows, Martin Anderson and Curtis Bell, were left jobless from the COVID 19 pandemic and the long year of the UK being…
You Season 3 Is the Best Installment Yet—and a Brilliant Send-Up of Suburbia
'You' is what you might get if 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' “social assassin” Larry David were a literal assassin, violently vanquishing braggarts and navel gazers and empty-headed trend chasers of every variety
Gordon Ramsay Street Burger – £15 burger deal
Gordon Ramsay Street Burger Fouled mouthed favourite UK chef Gordon Ramsay has opened up a new burger fast food venture since the pandemic happened. Already having six opened up in London within the…
Bergman Island Is the Rare Movie About Writers Trying To Write That Really Works
The always perceptive Mia Hansen-Løve finds a way to make this drama starring Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth more stimulating than it might first appear
Halloween Kills Sags Under the Weight of Its Own Mythology
There’s nothing creepily suggestive about Halloween Kills. Everything it amounts to is right there on its shallow, pitted surface
John le Carré’s Silverview Is Not the Defining Final Chapter of a Literary Career
When John le Carré died last December, his obituarists struck a common theme: here was a master spy novelist who, despite selling millions of books and having his work adapted for television and film, never received the recognition he deserved as a literary giant. Over six decades, le Carré drew upon his brief career in…
What Happened, Brittany Murphy?, Britney Spears and the Gendered Perils of Child Stardom
Taken together with everything we’ve learned about the other Britney these past several months, this two-part HBO Max documentary raises questions about the lifelong perils of early fame, for women in particular
The Harder They Fall Fails to Make Enough Room for Each Star Among Its Stellar Cast
The rare all-Black Western looks stylish and boasts an incredible cast, but in working so hard to entertain, it can’t quite keep the story going