Reviews
Primetimer's reviewers weigh in on what you should (and shouldn't) be watching
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POSTED May 21, 2019
King Corn Is the Only Food Film You Need
This classic about the triumph and tragedy of our modern food system is the antidote to overheated docs like What the Health and GMO OMG.
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POSTED May 16, 2019
In HBO’s Longford, Evil and Redemption in the Age Before Mass Incarceration
From the creator of The Crown, a stellar character drama that asks if any crime is too great to grant forgiveness.
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POSTED May 14, 2019
Do You Believe John Ramsey? Casting JonBenet Won’t Change Your Mind
That’s the point behind this unsettling Netflix docu-experiment about belief in spite of the facts.
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POSTED May 9, 2019
'New York Is Ferguson on Steroids’: The Chilling Lesson of Crime + Punishment
A stunning documentary about abusive policing at the NYPD has lessons for every city and town in America.
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POSTED May 6, 2019
The Americans Had No Idea How Right It Was
The celebrated spy thriller was set in the Reagan years because Russian spies were a thing of the past — not!
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POSTED May 2, 2019
Life on Mars Was the Time-Travel Show of the Future (And the Past)
The UK retro-detective series is hard to find these days but well worth the effort.
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POSTED April 30, 2019
American Crime: Once You’ve Seen It, You See America Differently
The overlooked third season of John Ridley’s anthology examined the hidden costs of our low-price economy.
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POSTED April 25, 2019
The Justice System Is Held Accountable in Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Why was the 2,531st-largest bank in the U.S. the only one to face criminal charges after the financial meltdown of 2008?
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POSTED April 19, 2019
Raunchy Laughs Are Northern Ireland’s Latest Export
Whatever happens with Brexit, Netflix viewers will get to enjoy the absurdity and profanity of Derry Girls.
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POSTED April 16, 2019
What? You Still Haven’t Watched 13TH?
The documentary from When They See Us producer Ava DuVernay is essential viewing for an age defined by racial injustice.
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POSTED April 1, 2019
Comrade Detective, The Greatest Romanian Buddy Cop Show That Never Was
Amazon’s weirdly subversive miniseries parodied ’80s buddy-cop films, Communist propaganda and 21st-century anti-Americanism.
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POSTED April 1, 2019
The Power of Rectify Was In What It Didn’t Say
Aden Young’s quiet performance stood out in this 2013 drama about an ex-prisoner’s bewildering first weeks of freedom after leaving death row.