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“Utopia Falls” is a new sci-fi series about how the discovery of hip-hop can inspire individual liberation, and seeing even a supposedly perfect world in a whole new way. It’s dressed up like dystopian YA series of...

Alison Brie stars in “Horse Girl” as Sarah, a socially awkward craft store employee whose mental health is rapidly deteriorating. The history of mental illness within her family, particularly that of her grandmother, is not on the...

Most modern adaptations of real young adult fiction—think not “Twilight” youth but “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” youth—has been serviceable at best. Sure, there’s a sweet dramedy like “Wonder” every now and then, but the majority...

In movies, stepmothers always seem to have a rough go at joining a new family. They tend to be the villains of a story, arbiters of cruelty and unwanted change, a character perhaps best personified by...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Ali””Batman Begins””Blade Runner””The Dark Knight””Dirty Harry””A Little Princess””The Notebook””The Other Guys””The Pianist””Purple Rain” 8 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “All About My Mother” (Criterion) As Pedro Almodovar goes through something of a critical renaiassance...

As a result of having caught the movie bug at a very early age, I must confess that in many cases, I cannot specifically remember when I first encountered many of the greats of the silver...

USA Network tries to conjure up their own “Twin Peaks” with the highly self-amused mystery series, “Briarpatch” (premiering on February 6). Based on the book by Ross Thomas, the series leans into that comparison by focusing on...

Sundance Film Festival’s eclectic NEXT section is proof that a story can come from anywhere and be told in many different ways. No two movies are quite alike in this section, which sometimes feels like a...

Sometimes you see a slew of young faces in the midst of amazing circumstances, and you can just tell what they’re going to be like in 10 or even 50 years from now. “Boys State” takes...

Richard Jenkins gives one of his most soulful performances in years in Andrew Cohn’s “The Last Shift,” a drama about one man’s devotion to his job, and the ways in which is employer takes advantage of his...