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“Going Dutch” is supposed to be a comedy. I think. The major clue is that the episodes are 22 minutes long. There certainly aren’t a lot of jokes—nothing that made me so much as smile in its first two installments. The sitcom follows Denis Leary as Colonel Patrick Quinn, forced into career purgatory by an

Few things are as common yet as earth-shattering as love and death. Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio” explores these core human experiences in all their thorny complexities. In this remote Italian village in the alps, where time seems suspended in air, they intermingle with human life as seamlessly as the townsfolk blend into the vastness of the

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10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Barbie““The Dead Don’t Die““It Ends with Us““Kneecap““A Prophet”“Run All Night““Shiva Baby““Top Five““Transformers”“Zero Dark Thirty“ 14 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “8 1/2” (Criterion) One of several Federico Fellini films that could accurately be called a masterpiece just received the 4K treatment from Criterion, working from a new digital restoration of the acknowledged classic.

A lot of energy is expended this time of year on the best films that hit theaters (or streaming) in the last 12 months. It can get a bit repetitive. Most of us here love “The Brutalist,” “Anora,” and “Nickel Boys” too but they’re getting so much attention (even from us) that it can push

Life after death, for the villainess at least, began in 1995 with children’s author Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Maguire’s novel is a revisionist take on 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, directed by Victor Fleming, and the 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum upon which the

Last year at the Venice Film Festival, I saw a documentary directed by Matthew Wells called “Frank Capra: Mr. America.” It was engaging, informative, and very pro-Capra. My friend, Farran Smith Nehme, was one of its interviewees. Another thing that happened last year is that, with Farran and my wife Claire, I recorded a commentary

2021’s “Squid Game” became one of the biggest hits of the Streaming TV era, unexpectedly launching its way to the title of Netflix’s most-watched show ever, on its way to Emmys for acting (Lee Jung-jae) and direction (Hwang Dong-hyuk). Despite a bit of a cliffhanger in its final episode, the first season of “Squid Game”