Plus: governments get deeper and deeper into horse racing, fiscally conservative Republicans keep subsidizing stadiums, and Full Swing is in a doom spiral
While there are legitimate antitrust concerns regarding the merger, doomsday predictions are unwarranted.
The final season of the Netflix show delivers a message about moral responsibility.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck play Florida police officers who stumble into a giant cash stash.
The Death by Lightning miniseries dramatizes the assassination of a president who left little lasting impact on Americans' lives.
The existence of options you don't personally enjoy is not a cultural failure; it's a luxury.
Characters in the Netflix show undergo psychological torture, manipulation, and psychedelic treatment.
Paramount Skydance is banking on the Ellison family's relationship with Trump following Netflix outbidding the company to acquire Warner Bros.
If antitrust regulators allow the deal to go through, consumers stand to benefit from a less expensive Netflix–HBO Max bundle.
A girl group battles a demon boy band in the wildly popular Netflix musical.
Filmmaker Jon Shenk and former Navy SEAL Marcus Capone discuss how psychedelics are helping veterans recover from war trauma.
The main character in Netflix's Too Much suffers from a fixation with online therapy culture.
The third season of the Netflix series lacks the moral nuance that made the original so compelling.
Errol Morris' new Netflix documentary explores alternative theories of the Manson cult's infamous 1969 murders.
Plus: Yetis, The Seat, and a political letter that will make your eyes roll.
Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch said she doesn’t have to watch Adolescence to understand the show’s themes.
The film exemplifies the new age of mainstream respectability the token has entered.
"I'm trying so hard to be a perfect altruist and just failing because no one is, actually," the Confessions of a Good Samaritan filmmaker tells Reason.
WWII correspondent William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich comes to life in this Netflix docuseries.
The state is almost completely absent in 'The Decameron. The characters don't exactly handle this responsibility well.
The outrageous seizure at the center of Rebel Ridge resembles real-life cash grabs.
The explosions may be fake, but the nightmare scenario is ripped from the headlines.
The creator of Masameer County was charged with promoting homosexuality and terrorism for his South Park-style satirical cartoon.
A new Netflix documentary series shows what happened when inmates were free to roam the cellblock with no guards in sight.
My Name is Loh Kiwan dramatizes the experiences of refugees escaping oppressive regimes.
Dev Patel's action debut is a righteous, wild revenge film.
From struggle sessions to cancel culture, the story depicts the terrors of surveillance authoritarianism.
In Squid Game: The Challenge, contestants don't really risk their lives.
It's not as easy as Netflix's Secrets of the Blue Zones makes it seem.
The political commentary in Netflix's sci-fi comedy isn't exactly subtle.
Painkiller reflects an indiscriminate anti-opioid bias that has caused needless suffering.
The former Cheers producer explains why the studios are failing, the writers and actors are missing the big picture, and creators fear their audience.
From delivery fees to streaming taxes, New York can’t stomach having MTA users actually pay for the system themselves.
A new Netflix documentary shows how the seeds of political polarization that roil our culture today were planted at Waco.
Hating tech billionaires is The Current Thing.
A Netflix documentary series blames the SEC for missing the Ponzi scheme and then calls for giving the SEC more power.
The G Word, a new documentary, only occasionally covers serious issues. But it opts not to do honest reporting.
The series deals with themes of fate, freedom, and choice.
A technically astounding film that turns a French housing block into a political warzone.
Netflix's The G Word tries and fails to restore faith in big government.
The show depicts the killer's gruesome crimes but lays some of the blame on the Milwaukee police who failed for so long to catch him.
Peaky Blinders reminds us that when the government bans or artificially limits a resource, control of that resource often gets decided through violence.
The Netflix docu-thriller Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey shows the downfall of Warren Jeffs and the unjustified taking of 450 children inside his religious community.
The company alleges the composers ignored multiple warnings to cease commercial production of the musical.
Adam Conover and President Barack Obama want to unruin the federal government. But they’re not really willing to truly consider that it’s too big and too wasteful.
"The platform's choice to release this special now, during a wave of unprecedented anti-trans legislation, is unconscionable," according to Vox.
It incentivizes high-noise, low-cost signaling rather than actual cultural changes.
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