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‘House of the Dragon’ Review: Domesticating ‘Game of Thrones’

HBO’s long-awaited prequel series has the swords and the dragon flame, the Hand and the Iron Throne. But something’s missing.

‘The Last Movie Stars’ Review: The Complicated Story of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

Ethan Hawke’s HBO Max documentary “The Last Movie Stars” examines two great actors in their own, and many of their friends’, words.

‘Tokyo Vice’ Review: Another American in Translation

A young Midwestern journalist comes of age on the mean streets of Tokyo in an HBO Max drama based (very loosely) on a real story.

‘Slow Horses’ Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Failure

Gary Oldman stars as an MI5 has-been in a darkly comic thriller about the spies no one wants to talk about.

‘Julia’ Review: Mastering the Art of Playing Julia Child

The celebrated British actress Sarah Lancashire follows in the footsteps of Dan Aykroyd and Meryl Streep in a biographical dramedy from HBO Max.

‘Moon Knight’ Review: Marvel, Oscar Isaac and Identity Issues

Oscar Isaac multitasks in a Marvel series about a superhero who answers to an ancient Egyptian god and struggles with dissociative identity disorder.

‘Pachinko’ Review: K-Drama, American-Style

Min Jin Lee’s best-selling novel about the harsh lives of Koreans living in Japan is turned into a glossy family saga for Apple TV+.

Telling the Story of the Tulsa Massacre

An array of TV documentaries mark the centennial of one of America’s deadliest outbreaks of racist violence.
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