June 3, 2025 9:34 pm

Roger Ebert Reviews

Painkiller

Director Peter Berg approaches Netflix’s six-episode “Painkiller” with an almost frantic style. There’s an urgency here in his telling of the origin of the opioid crisis in this country that’s admirable given the damage still being caused by Purdue Pharma, but ultimately shallow. Every episode of the series opens with shots of loved ones of people

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#464 August 8, 2023

Matt writes: Few people have made me laugh to the point of hyperventilating as much as Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman), who died on July 30th at age 70, following a private six-year battle with cancer. The freewheeling imagination and exuberance of “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” left a lasting impression on my sister and me, as did his

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#464 August 8, 2023

Matt writes: Few people have made me laugh to the point of hyperventilating as much as Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman), who died on July 30th at age 70, following a private six-year battle with cancer. The freewheeling imagination and exuberance of “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” left a lasting impression on my sister and me, as did his

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#464 August 8, 2023

Matt writes: Few people have made me laugh to the point of hyperventilating as much as Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman), who died on July 30th at age 70, following a private six-year battle with cancer. The freewheeling imagination and exuberance of “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” left a lasting impression on my sister and me, as did his

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#464 August 8, 2023

Matt writes: Few people have made me laugh to the point of hyperventilating as much as Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman), who died on July 30th at age 70, following a private six-year battle with cancer. The freewheeling imagination and exuberance of “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” left a lasting impression on my sister and me, as did his

#464 August 8, 2023 Read More »

#464 August 8, 2023

Matt writes: Few people have made me laugh to the point of hyperventilating as much as Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman), who died on July 30th at age 70, following a private six-year battle with cancer. The freewheeling imagination and exuberance of “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” left a lasting impression on my sister and me, as did his

#464 August 8, 2023 Read More »

#464 August 8, 2023

Matt writes: Few people have made me laugh to the point of hyperventilating as much as Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman), who died on July 30th at age 70, following a private six-year battle with cancer. The freewheeling imagination and exuberance of “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” left a lasting impression on my sister and me, as did his

#464 August 8, 2023 Read More »

#464 August 8, 2023

Matt writes: Few people have made me laugh to the point of hyperventilating as much as Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman), who died on July 30th at age 70, following a private six-year battle with cancer. The freewheeling imagination and exuberance of “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” left a lasting impression on my sister and me, as did his

#464 August 8, 2023 Read More »

#464 August 8, 2023

Matt writes: Few people have made me laugh to the point of hyperventilating as much as Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman), who died on July 30th at age 70, following a private six-year battle with cancer. The freewheeling imagination and exuberance of “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” left a lasting impression on my sister and me, as did his

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