Critic’s Notebook: A Flat Nate Bargatze and a Lame Time-Saving Gag Upstage Worthy Winners at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards

Critic’s Notebook: A Flat Nate Bargatze and a Lame Time-Saving Gag Upstage Worthy Winners at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards

Given that I live in Los Angeles and work for an entertainment industry trade publication, I’m not supposed to admit this, but much of the country — not “most” but probably more than “some” — has a particular perception about Hollywood. Writers and directors and producers and movie stars, you sometimes hear, live in a…

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‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Jeremy Allen White Gives Raw, Internalized Performance as The Boss in Contemplative Bio-Drama

‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Jeremy Allen White Gives Raw, Internalized Performance as The Boss in Contemplative Bio-Drama

Just as A Complete Unknown escaped the dreary conventionality of cradle-to-grave music biopics by surveying the nascent period in the stardom of its unknowable subject, Bob Dylan, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere makes affecting gains by focusing on the Artist as a Depressed Young Man. Which is not to say Scott Cooper’s Bruce Springsteen portrait…

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#Erin Doherty Unpacks Her One-Shot ‘Adolescence’ Episode: “I’ve Never Been a Part of a Project This Intense”

#Erin Doherty Unpacks Her One-Shot ‘Adolescence’ Episode: “I’ve Never Been a Part of a Project This Intense”

[This story contains spoilers up to episode three of Adolescence.] Everyone’s talking about Adolescence, and Erin Doherty knows why. The four episodes of Netflix‘s latest miniseries (hailed as “perfection,” a “masterclass” and “powerful TV“) are each filmed in one, consecutive shot, leaving audience members flummoxed at the stellar acting and trying to make sense of…

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