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The Academy Awards: Season 98 (2026) 80% EDIT “The Oscars this year were not boring, because the winners felt like they mattered... But the Oscars tonight weren’t exciting, either. They were a bit rote. ” – Variety Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Billy Joel: And So It Goes: Season 1 (2025) 92% EDIT “What took me by surprise is the movie’s emotional gravity. Directed by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, “And So It Goes” is not a once-over-lightly, papering-over-the-dark-side portrait of a pop star. It includes a lot of warts.” – Variety Jun 6, 2025 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 97 (2025) 75% EDIT “A brisk and elegantly executed piece of media stagecraft, successful in more ways than not. It was lavishly designed and purged of dead spots, and the winners were given the chance to reveal who they were, which is really the heart of the show. ” – Variety Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos: Season 1 (2024) 100% EDIT “Overflowing with insight; stuffed with revelatory interviews and anecdotes and archival footage; as bursting with flavor as a baked ziti; and as immersive, in its way, as the show itself.” – Variety Aug 23, 2024 Full Review In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon: Season 1 (2024) 95% EDIT “The film is mostly marvelous: a documentary that every Paul Simon fan on earth should want to see and experience.” – Variety Mar 7, 2024 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 95 (2023) 59% EDIT “It didn’t rock the boat, it didn’t overstay its welcome, and it left you feeling that the world’s preeminent awards show, all doom-saying punditry to the contrary, is still, on balance, a very good thing.” – Variety Mar 13, 2023 Full Review Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields: Season 1 (2023) 88% EDIT “A supremely well-crafted piece of conventional documentary portraiture.” – Variety Jan 21, 2023 Full Review Unprecedented: Season 1 (2022) EDIT “Unprecedented, in its smoothly watchable greatest-hits-of-Trump’s-outrage irrelevance, reflects the head-in-the-sand myopia of much of the current media, at least in regard to the danger that Trump still poses. ” – Variety Jul 11, 2022 Full Review The Beatles: Get Back: Season 1 (2021) 93% EDIT “The film's accumulation of quirks and delights and boredom and exhilaration becomes more than fascinating; it becomes addictive.” – Variety Nov 25, 2021 Full Review Music Box: Season 1.2 (2021) 82% EDIT “Jagged is a sharp, lively, and entertaining deep-dive-into-the-archive music documentary.” – Variety Oct 2, 2021 Full Review The Crime of the Century: Season 1 (2021) 95% EDIT “As Alex Gibney's shattering two-part, four-hour HBO documentary The Crime of the Century makes devastatingly clear, the opioid crisis is more than a human tragedy that has claimed half a million lives. It's part of what America has become.” – Variety May 3, 2021 Full Review Small Axe: Season 4 (2020) 96% EDIT “"Alex Wheatle" is like a sketch for the biopic it might have been, but by the end you feel you've glimpsed the key fragment of a life.” – Variety Dec 2, 2020 Full Review Small Axe: Season 3 (2020) 97% EDIT “It's caught in the moment we're in, when hope waltzes with despair and the only thing that's real is the struggle.” – Variety Oct 4, 2020 Full Review Small Axe: Season 2 (2020) 98% EDIT “"Lovers Rock" is a reverie that's also a raw slice of culturally observant drama.” – Variety Sep 18, 2020 Full Review Golden Globes: Season 75 (2018) 83% EDIT “By the time Oprah got up on stage to make her statement, she didn't just add to the theme of harassment and heroism, discrimination and liberation. She took it to the mountaintop.” – Variety Nov 25, 2019 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 86 (2014) 59% EDIT “The show was trim, fleet, elegant, and organic, with few unnecessary bells and whistles; almost everything in it seemed to have a purpose.” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 13, 2019 Full Review Leaving Neverland: Season 1 (2019) 98% EDIT “"Leaving Neverland" is no thriller, but it's undeniably a kind of true-life horror movie. You walk out of it shaken, but on some level liberated by its dark exposé.” – Variety Jan 26, 2019 Full Review The Academy Awards: Season 85 (2013) 26% EDIT “Every time it threatened to become unhinged with sarcasm, something deeply sincere happened.” – Entertainment Weekly Jan 26, 2019 Full Review The Fourth Estate: Season 1 (2018) 72% EDIT “This is the opposite of a thesis film; it's a lively existential you-are-there diary of the pulse of The New York Times.” – Variety Jun 19, 2018 Full Review
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