โ€˜Relayโ€™ review: Riz Ahmed helps people disappear in smart, paranoid thriller

‘Relay’ review: Riz Ahmed helps people disappear in smart, paranoid thriller

If history has taught us anything, itโ€™s that no one is truly safe. That gathering dread fueled some great โ€™70s paranoid thrillers, such as โ€œThe Parallax Viewโ€ and โ€œThe Conversation,โ€ but itโ€™s been difficult to replicate that eeriness in todayโ€™s extremely online world, when our devices explain and obfuscate with abandon, conspiracies are lifeblood and…

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โ€˜Long Story Shortโ€™ review: A moving tale of a modern Jewish family

‘Long Story Short’ review: A moving tale of a modern Jewish family

โ€œLong Story Short,โ€ premiering Friday on Netflix, is the sweet, melancholy, satirical, silly, poignant, hopeful, sometimes slapstick cartoon tale of a middle-class Jewish family, told nonchronologically from the 1990s to the 2020s. For all its exaggerations โ€” and unexaggerated portrayals of exaggerated behaviors โ€” it is remarkably acute, and surprisingly moving, about relations between parents…

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How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Zack Fox

How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Zack Fox

Long before Zack Fox was making scene-stealing appearances in โ€œAbbott Elementary,โ€ releasing music and amassing millions of views on his sweat-inducing DJ sets, he was best known for his Twitter jokes. Fox, a graphic artist and emcee for Atlanta-based indie label Awful Records at the time, was posting absurdly funny tweets under the alias โ€œBootymath,โ€…

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โ€˜Honey Donโ€™t!โ€™ review: Sleazy crime caper is a hot mess โ€” just as intended

‘Honey Don’t!’ review: Sleazy crime caper is a hot mess โ€” just as intended

โ€œHoney Donโ€™t!โ€ is a smutty desert mystery in which the detective, Honey Oโ€™Donohue (Margaret Qualley), never gets around to solving the central crime. Sheโ€™s too busy seducing women and swatting down randy men. Iโ€™d call the opening murder a red herring except itโ€™s really more like a fish left to cook in the blinding Bakersfield…

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