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Netflix’s Unabomber spends most of its running time moving toward two confrontations separated by more than three decades. In 1958, Jacob Tremblay’s young Ted Kaczynski becomes increasingly consumed by Henry Murray’s psychological research at Harvard, while the 1990s storyline follows Shailene Woodley’s Joanne Miller as she becomes convinced that the FBI has been looking for…
Unabomber approaches Ted Kaczynski’s history from an angle that is less familiar than the image of the isolated man eventually found living in rural Montana. Director Janus Metz moves between Kaczynski’s arrival at Harvard as an unusually young mathematics student and the federal investigation that finally identified him decades later. Jacob Tremblay plays Ted during…
Unabomber is less interested in presenting Ted Kaczynski’s life as one continuous biography than in putting two versions of him beside each other. Jacob Tremblay plays the teenage Harvard prodigy, while Michael Laurence appears as the older man being sought decades later. Between those timelines are Russell Crowe’s Professor Henry Murray, Annabelle Wallis’ Christiana Morgan…
Unabomber moves between two versions of Ted Kaczynski’s life that look as though they belong to different films. One follows the gifted teenager arriving at Harvard in 1958, where he comes into contact with psychologist Henry Murray and participates in a controversial research program. The other jumps forward to the 1990s, when federal investigators are…
Netflix’s “A Different World” brings viewers back to Hillman College with a new generation, but the sequel does not spend its first season simply revisiting familiar ground. Deborah Wayne, the daughter of Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert, arrives at Hillman carrying the weight of her parents’ history while trying to build a college life that…
A Different World returns to Hillman College with the difficult task of introducing a new class without making the sequel feel like an extended reunion special. Netflix’s continuation solves that problem by putting Deborah Wayne, the youngest daughter of Whitley Gilbert and Dwayne Wayne, at the center of campus life while surrounding her with students…
A Different World returns to Hillman College with a new generation, but Netflix’s sequel does something the original sitcom could only occasionally attempt. Instead of keeping most of student life inside studio-built classrooms and dorm rooms, the new series takes Hillman outdoors and allows viewers to move through real quads, walkways and college buildings. Maleah…
“Avengers: Endgame” originally ended with Steve Rogers finally getting the life he had missed. After returning the Infinity Stones, Steve remained in the past with Peggy Carter, and the movie closed on the two of them dancing together. There was no major villain waiting after the credits and no obvious setup for another Avengers adventure.…
When “Avengers: Endgame” arrived in 2019, it did something the Marvel Cinematic Universe had spent more than a decade building toward. Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Thor, Bruce Banner and Clint Barton were brought together for what felt like the closing chapter of the original Avengers era. Seven years later, Marvel Studios is taking…
Prime Video’s The Love Hypothesis keeps most of the characters essential to Olive Smith and Adam Carlsen’s fake-dating romance, but readers of Ali Hazelwood’s novel will immediately notice one important absence. Holden Rodriguez, one of Adam’s closest friends and a significant supporting character in the book, does not appear in the movie at all. The…
Prime Video’s The Love Hypothesis stays recognizably close to Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling 2021 novel, but adapting Olive Smith‘s intensely internal romantic journey into a feature film required more than simply shortening scenes. The book can spend pages inside Olive’s thoughts while she misreads Adam Carlsen’s feelings, worries about her research and invents increasingly complicated reasons…
Tom Benton initially seems like the person capable of opening exactly the professional door Olive Smith has been searching for in Prime Video’s The Love Hypothesis. Olive has spent years developing research that matters deeply to her, and Tom’s position at Harvard makes his interest in that work appear like a major step forward. Because…
