Period Dramas
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The Natalie Portman vehicle Jane Got a Gun is the latest western to get a second life on the great streaming plains.
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Stream It or Skip It: 'The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat' on Hulu, an All-Star Adaptation of the Best-Selling Book
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat gives its strong cast almost no breathing room. The result feels like a rushed summary of a detailed novel. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist' On Peacock, About A Massive Heist That Takes Place During Muhammad Ali's 1970 Comeback Fight
The all-star cast includes Kevin Hart, Don Cheadle, Samuel L. Jackson, Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard, Dexter Darden and more. -
Plus, will there be a Lady In The Lake Season 2?
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1’ on HBO Max, the Opening Salvo of Kevin Costner's Epic Western
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Lady in the Lake told its story with great skill.
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Pachinko' Season 2 On Apple TV+, Continuing The Sprawling Story Of One Korean Family And Its Struggle To Succeed In Japan
The story of Sunja's journey moves to the end of World War II, while the older Sunja still deals with racism in 1989 Osaka. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Mothers’ Instinct’ on VOD, A Waste of Two Oscar Winners in a Confused Melodrama-Thriller
The mothers of Mothers’ Instinct are not mothering. -
Now THIS is how you do a dream sequence.
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Beast’ on Criterion Channel, A Cryptic Triptych About Fear and Love
The Beast is part drama, part romance, part thriller, part sci-fi, and wholly unique. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘One Life’ on Paramount+, In Which Anthony Hopkins Brings His A-Game to an Otherwise Ordinary Historical Drama
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The new Austin Butler movie was adapted from a 1968 photo-book of the same name.
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The violence explodes onto the screen like a bomb.
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Bikeriders’ on Peacock, a Biker-Gang Drama in Which Austin Butler and Tom Hardy Go Nowhere
You'll want to banish Jodie Comer's Midwestern accent to the deepest pits of Ohio. -
In retrospect, the fourth episode of Lady in the Lake makes the first three look like they were holding their breath
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"I was the first to see her dead. You were the last to see her alive."
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Kleo' Season 2 On Netflix, Where Kleo Pursues The Suitcase, But So Are Sven, The CIA And The KGB
Kleo finds out that the infamous red suitcase may have a connection to her family in the German spy thriller. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Decameron' On Netflix, A Dark Comedy About Class Conflict And The Plague Of The Black Death
Loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th century collection of stories, the series stars Tony Hale, Zosia Mamet, Jessica Plummer and Saoirse-Monica Jackson.