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'First Kill' stakes out teen vampire love story

4 years 3 months ago
"First Kill" isn't good, but it's bad in semi-interesting ways -- the kind of young-adult genre show that Netflix churned out by the truckload before beginning to pull back. The one-line description -- "Romeo and Juliet," only adapted here as the crucifix-crossed romance between a vampire and a vampire slayer -- seems ripe for mockery, and the execution doesn't do much to blunt it.

'Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey' revisits Warren Jeffs' FLDS sect through survivor stories

4 years 3 months ago
The glut of true-crime fare is such that streaming services essentially create "You might like" companions to what's on their competitors. So viewers of Hulu's "Under the Banner of Heaven" can now watch "Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey," Netflix's docuseries about Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect, a well-covered story already that gains traction here by interviewing many of the survivors.

'Jurassic World: Dominion' combines old and new DNA

4 years 3 months ago
There's something unfortunately symbolic about "Jurassic World: Dominion," which combines old and new DNA from the near-three-decade-old franchise and generates a pretty mindless mess. The nostalgia factor gives the movie an initial jolt, and there are, of course, some dino-sized thrills, but not enough to lift this XL-sized mediocrity out of the gene pool's shallow end.

'Hustle' drafts Adam Sandler for an NBA movie with a solid inside game

4 years 3 months ago
"Hustle" doesn't score any points for originality, unless you've somehow missed all those sports movies about scouts or coaches finding astonishing talent in unlikely locales. Yet Adam Sandler's latest Netflix film -- produced with, among others, LeBron James -- mostly works in following that familiar playbook, peppering its NBA-level action with several rosters worth of basketball cameos.
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