Movies

It’s wild to think, going into the fifth season of Apple TV’s lush, sorely underrated science fiction series “For All Mankind,” that Ronald D. Moore‘s alt-history saga began with a simple premise: What if the Russians beat us to...

In “Mercy,” Chris Pratt plays a police detective accused of murdering his wife. It takes place in the future, when the judicial system is turned over to an AI “judge” played by Rebecca Ferguson. Until the final third of...

If the Netflix Norwegian crime thriller series “Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole” had been packaged into five or even six episodes, it might well have been masterful. Stretched over nine long chapters and stuffed with a dizzying array of subplots,...

The finale of “Daredevil: Born Again’s” first season couldn’t have arrived at a more opportune moment. What began as a cat-and-mouse game between vigilante Daredevil/Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and drug-lord Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) has escalated into a full-fledged...

For people of faith who just want to see Bible stories on screen, Fox’s “The Faithful: Women of the Bible” will work. It’s essentially a series of three made-for-TV movies that tell different Old Testament stories from women’s perspectives.The...

2023’s “Jury Duty” was one of TV’s most pleasant surprises that year—tucked away on Amazon’s now-defunct ad-supported streamer, Freevee, it was a curious blend of courtroom drama, reality TV, and prank show that positioned an unsuspecting subject (in that...

Prime’s new series “Bait” opens with its protagonist, Shah Latif (Riz Ahmed), donned in a black tuxedo, hair meticulously styled as he does a screen test for the newest James Bond film. We quickly learn that this cold open,...