Daniel Fienberg

3 weeks ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Daniel Fienberg

The concept of reciprocal justice — “An eye for an eye” — goes back to the Code of Hammurabi and various religious texts, but has faced challenges Biblical (“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay”), Shakespearean (“The quality of mercy is not strained”), and catch-all (“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”). Tanaz Eshaghian and Farzad Jafari’s An Eye for an Eye puts issues of justice, vengeance and mercy to the ultimate test in a documentary that’s taut, emotional and provocative.

4 weeks ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Daniel Fienberg

Back in 2007, before he became TV’s go-to auteur for smart genre programming for grown-ups, Oscar nominated writer Scott Frank made a transition to directing with The Lookout, a twisty slab of neo-noir that features, among other things, my favorite performance from Matthew Goode, in a charmingly vicious turn. It’s been 18 years, but Frank and Goode have finally reteamed for Netflix’s Dept.

1 month ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Daniel Fienberg

Sharpen your trend piece-writing pencils, because this week’s premiere of Amazon’s The Better Sister follows fast on the heels of Peacock’s Long Bright River and Netflix’s Sirens, completing a trio of streaming shows about long estranged sisters simultaneously bonded and torn apart by youthful trauma, coming together to solve an external mystery with connections to that shared pain.

1 month ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Daniel Fienberg

Mortal women tend to get a bum deal in classical mythology; it isn’t uncommon to see them reduced to simple, ill-fated victims or, in more complicated instances, turned into literal monsters for offenses they didn’t commit.

1 month ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Daniel Fienberg

It’s been several years since I graduated from college, so I’m unqualified to say with certainty whether or not it’s a regular occurrence for today’s savvy students to bond over their love of Ashlee Simpson, whose last album came out before most of them were born. This unexpected celebration of the “Pieces of Me” auteur is one of several moments in Benito Skinner‘s new Amazon comedy Overcompensating that feel not exactly “wrong,” but more appropriate for juvenile millennials than Zoomers.