A Netflix Drama Reinforces Pernicious Misconceptions About Pain Treatment
Painkiller reflects an indiscriminate anti-opioid bias that has caused needless suffering.
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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"If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you," the company tells employees.
Today's big powerful companies could become tomorrow's also-rans, no government intervention required.
A show about an American heartland scourged by black-market drugs, vice, politics, and bureaucratic power
In Japan, even very young children are seen as capable.
Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg star in another timid, lifeless video game adaptation.
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The breakout Netflix series contains critiques of a decidedly "anti-capitalist" political and economic system that's haunted the Korean Peninsula.
Is a required content warning or algorithm change a violation of the First Amendment?
When employees tried their hand at a shakedown, CEO Ted Sarandos buckled a bit under the pressure.
No one is safe from Chappelle's jokes—but also, everyone is safe from Chappelle's jokes.
Netflix's limited series documents how bad forensics, faulty witness testimony, and misconduct by police and prosecutors let us down.
The Netflix comedy special deals with the loneliness brought on by the pandemic.
The new film never wavers in its appreciation for these seasteading heroes as they piss off all the right people in pursuit of their slice of utopia.
The most interesting aspect of the series is how it unintentionally reveals our conflicted relationship with profanity.
The protagonist's speedy evolution into an anti–Cold Warrior is the better subplot.
The show takes plenty of creative license, but viewers are smart enough to distinguish drama from documentary.
Chadwick Boseman shines in his final role.
Aaron Sorkin takes on the famous trial of activists who organized an anti-war protest during the 1968 Democratic convention.
The new Netflix docuseries is a damning indictment of ICE.
Lessons learned from the zookeeper Netflix made famous
Martin Scorsese says superhero movies are crowding out cinema. But plenty of great non-comic-book films still exist.
TV's cultural dominance is unchecked by anything except your own time, and increasingly tailored to your unique interests and obsessions.
An anthology series about sad salesmen, space marines, super-intelligent yogurt, and the national debt
Strong performances and sharp direction elevate this drug-war action thriller.
The Best Picture nod for Netflix's Roma marks a major victory for the streaming service.