U2 Songs of Surrender review – all the anthems, but smaller
(Island/Interscope) In a typically grand gesture, 40 songs are picked by the band for muted acoustic treatments, with varying degrees of success U2 have always dealt in grand gestures. No other rock artists from the world of post-punk chased megastardom…
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‘Slumberland’ strands Jason Momoa in a nightmare of a movie
A movie about dreams becomes the stuff of nightmares in Netflix’s utterly misguided “Slumberland,” an attempt to build a sprawling fantasy adventure from the bones of the early-20th-century newspaper comic strip. Most notable as a vehicle for Jason Momoa, this wannabe…
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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Review: An Epic Return to Middle-Earth
The Rings of Power takes you to familiar places, in a good way. The new Lord of the Rings TV show The Rings of Power takes you somewhere you’ve been before. Among the many familiar elements in the Prime Video series coming…
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مراجعة فيلم Day Shift: بطولة جيمي فوكس وسنوب دوغ، أداء رائع في تقمص الأدوار
تدور أحداث “Day Shift” حول مصاصي الدماء ، ولكنها واحدة من تلك الأفلام ولتي تم تجميعها معًا من أجزاء متفرقة، بطولة Jamie Foxx نسخة عائلية قليلا ، فيلم مزيج من الرعب والكوميديا . إنه فيلم يتميز بوجود أبطال أكثر من القصة…
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The Sandman review: Neil Gaiman’s comics become a gloomy Netflix show
The Sandman may be ageless and immortal, but even he would recognise that the three decades it has taken to get him on screen have been a protracted process. Since 1991, when Neil Gaiman was first approached about turning his…
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Paper Girls review: the Amazon series takes too long to get fun and Weird
The live-action adaptation plays things a little too safe It doesn’t take long for the Paper Girls comic books to get strange. The series from Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang starts out with a dream about an astronaut with angel wings and a skull for a…
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Gone in the Night Review: Winona Ryder and the Case of the Vanishing Boyfriend
Eli Horowitz’s Sonoma-shot debut feature has a potentially intriguing mystery whose complexities it seems hapless to manage. A tricky narrative requires deft execution, something that turns out to be well beyond the capabilities of “Gone in the Night.” Presented at SXSW earlier…
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Thor: Love and Thunder Review: Ride like lightning, crash like thunder
Say what you will about Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic’s Thor: God of Thunder – and you can say what you want, just know that anything other than “This is perhaps the best comic that Marvel has produced in the last decade”…
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Maggie on Hulu Is a Romantic-Comedy Throwback in the Worst Way: TV Review
It can feel at times as though the logical endpoint of the streaming revolution is a restaging of the TV landscape of, say, 1990, just atomized across vastly more players. It’s inevitable: With so much content, certain traditional, and perhaps…
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Stranger Things Season 4 Vol 2 Review: The Best & Worst Of The Netflix Show
Stranger Things season 4, volume 2 are equally as overstuffed as volume 1. It creates a few problems, while offering a mostly satisfying ending. A little more than a month after the first seven episodes dropped on Netflix, Stranger Things season 4,…
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