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Jon Hamm puts a twist on his Don Draper swagger in 'Your Friends & Neighbors'
Wealth comes lined with rage and melancholy in a new Apple TV+ series about a hedge-fund hotshot who loses his job and begins to steal from his suburban friends.
3 exhilarating songs showcase music genres being explored in new ways
by Ken Tucker
Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs' “Dare To Dream," Tommy Richman's "Million Dollar Baby" and Jeff and Steven McDonald's “Born Innocent" feature spontaneous sounds rooted in deep knowledge of the past.
Ghanaian artist Blitz Bazawule breaks down doors
by Tonya Mosley
Bazawule is best known for directing the 2023 adaptation of The Color Purple: The Musical. He also co-directed Black Is King with Beyoncé. His new exhibit of paintings is about growing up in Ghana.
'Orphan Black: Echoes' fails to make a satisfying clone of the original series
by David Bianculli
Though this BBC America/AMC series has provocative things to say about identity, memory, love and loss, it fails to reproduce the best element of the original Orphan Black: the crazy, colorful clones.
How a quest for greater profits upended the global supply chain during the pandemic
by Dave Davies
Everything from disinfectant wipes to computer chips were in short supply during the pandemic. New York Times journalist Peter Goodman explains the disruptions in How the World Ran Out of Everything.
'Slave Play' playwright Jeremy O. Harris is on a mission to diversify theater
by Tonya Mosley
The award-winning playwright talks about his provocative Slave Play, which earned 12 Tony nominations. A new HBO documentary chronicles the making of the production. Originally broadcast June 2023.
'Kafka' congers a thoughtful -- and occasionally bizarre -- portrait of an iconic artist
by David Bianculli
Netflix's miniseries about Franz Kafka is loose enough to have characters break the fourth wall, and bold enough to slip from scenes of the Czech writer's life to imagined scenes from his stories.
Documentary unspools the story behind Diane von Furstenberg's iconic wrap dress
by Tonya Mosley
Von Furstenberg and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy teamed up to produce Woman in Charge, a Hulu documentary about the fashion designer's meteoric rise in the '70s.
'Green Border' is the strongest movie this critic has seen all year
by John Powers
Agnieszka Holland's film, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, centers on a refugee family trying to escape to Western Europe and the people who try to help and stop them.