Reviews
Primetimer's reviewers weigh in on what you should (and shouldn't) be watching
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POSTED March 8, 2024
Hunting Housewives Might Be the Perfect Metaphor for Bravo's Treatment of Its Stars
Watching the Lifetime movie, its central conceit doesn't seem so far-fetched.
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POSTED March 7, 2024
Netflix's Supersex Is All Moaning and Furious Humping, Signifying Nothing
The emotions are as anesthetized as the sex.
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POSTED March 5, 2024
Netflix's Troubled Teen Docuseries The Program Understands Its Limitations
While director Katherine Kubler is out for revenge, she remains realistic about her power to take down a billion-dollar industry.
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POSTED March 4, 2024
Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson Can't Close the Distance Between Alice & Jack
Despite excellent performances from its leads, the romantic drama is missing a spark.
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POSTED February 27, 2024
Kate Winslet's The Regime Is Hardly a Coup for HBO
Will Tracy's political satire takes big swings, but fails to connect across six episodes.
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POSTED February 22, 2024
Avatar: The Last Airbender Makes Good on Its Second Chance at Live Action
The fantasy adaptation boasts a great cast and grand world-building, which puts it miles ahead of the 2010 feature-length misstep.
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POSTED February 20, 2024
Constellation Is a Spooky Trip to Where Sci-Fi Mysteries Have Gone Before
You may get ahead of the twist, but that won't blunt the power of Jonathan Banks' terrifically layered performance.
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POSTED February 16, 2024
The Ones Who Live Isn't A Triumph For The Walking Dead — It's Torment
Rick’s back in AMC's latest spin-off, but the franchise — and Michonne — are better off without him.
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POSTED February 15, 2024
The Vince Staples Show Finds Fear and Longing in Long Beach
Rapper Vince Staples goes in search of himself in his first lead TV role.
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POSTED February 15, 2024
FX's Shōgun Honors the Past While Blazing Its Own Trail
The action and battle sequences are absolutely stunning, filled with brutal violence and heart-pounding twists and turns.
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POSTED February 13, 2024
The New Look Paints a Complex and Fascinating Portrait of Christian Dior and Coco Chanel
Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche confidently capture the contradictions of living and creating in Occupied Paris.
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POSTED February 5, 2024
The Idaho Murders Exposes the Devil's Bargain of Working With So-Called 'Cybersleuths'
A quadruple murder draws an army of "digital detectives" who see the tragedy as their moment to shine.
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POSTED February 2, 2024
In Mr. & Mrs. Smith, First Comes Love, Then Comes Espionage
Prime Video's reboot emphasizes the relationship between Donald Glover and Maya Erskine's lonely recruits over their spy work.
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POSTED February 1, 2024
Impressive But Flawed, MLK/X Can't Contain the Genius of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Past installments focused on a single historical figure, which makes merging the stories of two civil rights icons an odd choice.
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POSTED January 31, 2024
Feud: Capote vs. The Swans Is a Lagging, Lacking Look at the Original Real Housewives
The narrative simmers for so long that you get tired of waiting for the tea to spill.