Brian Tallerico

3 weeks ago | rogerebert.com | Brian Tallerico

It's a pretty light month at the powerhouse streamer of all streamers, Netflix. Maybe they didn't want to distract from the final season of "Squid Game"? Maybe they know more people are out and about at the start of Summer? We'll never know. And, to be fair, there are a few interesting drops this month, including two very different music docs and a collection of films from the master of suspense.

4 weeks ago | rogerebert.com | Brian Tallerico

11 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD "Better Man" Much of the conversation around the unique Robbie Williams biopic in which a CGI monkey takes the place of the Take That singer was about the box office disappointment of the film, which overshadowed two key takeaways. One, thank God there are still executives at major studios like Paramount willing to take chances on a film as strange as this one. If we lose all ambition at the big companies, we're going to be in serious trouble.

4 weeks ago | rogerebert.com | Brian Tallerico

Even great writers are being defeated by the epidemic of bloated streaming series. Look no further than Netflix's "Department Q," adapted from the series of books by Jussi Adler-Olsen by none other than the brilliant Scott Frank, the certified genius behind "Out of Sight," "Logan," "Godless," and "The Queen's Gambit." The man is one of our best living writers, but even he is brought down by stretching what could have easily been a feature-length film of plot into a nine-hour mystery.

1 month ago | rogerebert.com | Brian Tallerico

Some readers may be old enough to remember when every network was actively trying to find "The Next Friends," hiring often random collections of unknown young performers and throwing them into comic hijinks together. The result was a wave of awful television with a few standouts (long live "Happy Endings") and a form that quickly burned out.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Brian Tallerico

Looking for the best movies for kids and families streaming for free on Max? We list the 20 best films, including ‘Flow,’ ‘The Boy and the Heron,’ ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ ‘Harry Potter,’ and more.