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Sweet Magnolias Season 5 Ending Explained — Who Gets Married, and Is Dana Sue Leaving Ronnie?

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  All ten episodes of Sweet Magnolias Season 5 dropped on Netflix on June 11, and the show shot straight back into the Top 10, because this is the kind of series people do not just watch but check in on, like old friends. The finale gives the three Magnolias very different endings: one wedding, … Read more

The Marked Woman Ending Explained — Who Is the Woman in the Container?

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  The Marked Woman, Netflix’s Spanish original thriller that shot into the Top 10 within days of its June 5 release, runs on a single question: who is the woman found beaten half to death in a shipping container in Barcelona, with no memory of her own name? If you have reached the end and … Read more

Ticket to Paradise Filming Locations — Where Was It Really Filmed?

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 Ticket to Paradise, the George Clooney and Julia Roberts romantic comedy now climbing the Netflix charts, is set in Bali. It was not filmed in Bali. If you have been staring at those glowing beaches and turquoise water wondering exactly where to book your own version of the trip, here is the short answer: you … Read more

GOAT — The Most Familiar Underdog Story, With the Best Animated Basketball Ever Made

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You have seen this story. A small kid with a big dream, written off as too little to compete, gets one improbable shot at the big leagues and has to prove the doubters wrong. GOAT, the animated sports comedy now climbing the Netflix charts, does not pretend otherwise. Its plot is the underdog template in … Read more

Eddie Murphy — The AFI Tribute Is Overdue, and It’s Bigger Than Comedy

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  The room at the Dolby Theatre in April was a who’s who of American comedy, and that was the point. Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Kevin Hart, Tracy Morgan, Arsenio Hall, Kenan Thompson, Mike Myers, Spike Lee, Stevie Wonder — they came to hand Eddie Murphy the 51st AFI Life Achievement Award, and … Read more

Lawmen: Bass Reeves — The Real Western Hero America Forgot, and the Show That Almost Does Him Justice

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  Here is a true story that sounds invented. A man is born into slavery in Arkansas. His owner drags him into the Civil War to fight for the Confederacy, and somewhere in that nightmare he escapes — the legend says he beat the man over a card game and ran. He disappears into Indian … Read more

Fast Charlie — Pierce Brosnan, James Caan’s Last Bow, and the Movie Nobody Watched in 2023

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  There is a particular pleasure in watching an actor who has nothing left to prove simply enjoy himself. Pierce Brosnan has reached that stage, and Fast Charlie — a small, darkly funny hitman movie that almost nobody saw when it quietly appeared in late 2023 — is built entirely around that pleasure. Three years … Read more

Teach You a Lesson — The Netflix K-Drama That Korea’s Own Teachers Tried to Stop

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  The premise lands like a provocation, which is exactly what it is meant to do. In a near-future Korea where classroom violence has spiraled and teachers have lost all authority, the government creates a new agency: the Educational Rights Protection Bureau. Its inspectors are granted legal permission to use physical force against delinquent students. … Read more

Michael Jackson: The Verdict Review — The 4% Audience Score Tells Its Own Story

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  A few days ago I wrote a preview of this docuseries, and I ended it with a question. Not whether Michael Jackson was guilty or innocent — a jury answered that in 2005 — but a harder one: how did a trial that ended in acquittal on every single count become culturally remembered as … Read more

David — The Biblical Epic That Made $87 Million Just Arrived on Netflix

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 The story of David and Goliath is approximately three thousand years old. Every person reading this already knows how it ends. The shepherd boy wins. The giant falls. And yet David, Angel Studios’ animated biblical epic, arrived on Netflix on June 3rd and is already the number one film in the United States.  It spent … Read more