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Operation Petticoat (1959)

Hasn't aged especially well. Still, on the strength of Grant and co-lead Tony Curtis, Edwards' film remains a diverting enough escape from reality.
Radio Days (1987)

[A] ridiculously entertaining nostalgia exercise...Radio Days emerged from a highly fertile period for [Woody] Allen, and the film bubbles with creativity and Allen hallmarks.
Le Week-End (2014)

Little satisfies more at the movies than the relatively cheap special effect catalyzed by putting together a couple of great actors and letting them (figuratively speaking) dance a lengthy pas de deux.
Blue Ruin (2014)

A hauntingly memorable, even thoughtful shoot-'em-up.
An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)

Thrilling—you are there at the inception of Doctor Who!—and deeply poignant, sometimes at the same time...with actors like Bradley and Cox in place, it's difficult to imagine a better treatment.
Rio 2 (2014)

Rio was pretty generic to begin with, and the follow-up doesn't fly far from the nest...[it's the] vocally virtuosic amorous aria, 'Poisonous Love,' that is the picture's hands-down highlight.
A Hard Day's Night (1964)

It's more than a movie; it's a key artifact (minus must or muss) of a cultural phenomenon.
Masters of Sex: Season One (2013)

Like Bill Condon's seriocomic film Kinsey, Masters of Sex takes a sociohistorical perspective on a subject of inherent fascination to us all.
Star Trek: The Next Generation—Chain of Command (1992)

Considerably ahead of the curve in taking on the character and meaning and consequences of torture as a fruitless and brutal human rights abuse...shows The Next Generation operating at the top of its game.
Star Trek: The Next Generation—Season Six (1992)

By its sixth season, Star Trek: The Next Generation had figured out how to maximize its cast and characters.
The Honeymooners: Classic 39 Episodes (1955)

Sincere in enobling the working class, and there's something magical and poignant in the way these 'low-rent' stories came on each week to the tune of the romantic, impossibly swanky 'You're My Greatest Love'...
The Andy Griffith Show: Season 1 (1960)

A network sitcom with predictable conflicts meandering their way to 'all's well that ends well' resolutions, but the show—starting out on its now-historic eight-year run—functions not unlike its bucolic setting: it's a nice place to visit.
Two Rode Together (1961)

Ford may have made it for a quick buck—or perhaps as a favor to Columbia chief Harry Cohn—but the impact of the resulting film is far more that of a provocative drama than a tossed-off oater.
I Love Lucy: Ultimate Season 1 (1951)

There's never been a comedian quite like Lucille Ball before or since: with beauty she was entirely willing to contort for laughs and phenomenal comic instincts...the redheaded star was and remains impossible not to love.
Star Trek: Enterprise—Season Four (2001)

If not everything works in Enterprise's Season Four, it's certainly the most consistently entertaining and well-written season of the show, a bitter irony for a show that was doomed to cancellation.
August: Osage County (2014)

Absent the electricity of live-wire live performance, the play's paucity of depth becomes more obvious. What's left to carry the day are a nasty streak of black comedy and the redoubtable acting ensemble.
The Hidden Fortress (1958)

The play of light and dark elements in what's arguably Akira Kurosawa's most broadly appealing and entertaining picture...explores a dichotomy of the idiocy of greed and the rewards of sacrifice.
Philomena (2013)

Though Coogan's the avowed funnyman, twinkly-eyed Dench makes beautiful comic music with him...and though Dame Judi's the classically trained tragedian, Coogan holds his own when matters get serious.
The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza) (2013)

Plays at times like a more conventional, less daring version of 1972’s Roma...On its own merits, Sorrentino’s film ain’t half-bad, but it’s no Fellini picture.
King of the Hill (1993)

To revisit King of the Hill—or to discover it—is to realize how seldom American cinema deems it worthwhile to tell a child's story with anything approaching serious psychological intent.
Foreign Correspondent (1940)

A fitfully crackerjack picture with astonishing mise-en-scène...some memorable set pieces to take advantage of same, and flashes of Hitchockian wit...
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Though the film, by necessity, expands Dahl's original story and fuses it to the sensibility of Anderson, author and auteur share a common tone of twisted twee...
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Nervy and unnerving...arguably the purest expression of Allen's cinematic vision.
Darkman (1990)

The wild pulp adventure that prefigured Raimi's eventual direction of the Spider-Man franchise...If you've a taste for Hollywood-funded outré, Darkman is one of those rare films that fits the bill.
The Fifth Estate (2013)

Cumberbatch gives a commanding performance, but corrective rewrites to the worrying early drafts of the script obviously were too little, too late to do justice to the nuanced complexities of [Assange] and his revolution.
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)

A culminative reflection on the reboot's characterization of the Doctor, a respectful hat tip to the decades that preceded the show's return to the airwaves in 2005, and a jumping-off point for...the next fifty years of Who.
20 Feet from Stardom (2013)

Neville does a good job of highlighting songs that are especially characterized by backup singers, like Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side,' and introducing us to some of the 'unsung' talent that made those hits possible.
Archer: The Complete Season Four (2009)

Clearly, Archer is coming for you. Phrasing. Boom!
The Lone Ranger (2013)

Prompts 'The Cosplay Kid' of the Comic-Con era of cinema to swallow the sins of our forefathers and the ones we countenance today.
Mary Poppins (1964)

One of the great movie musicals and of that rare breed of deathless family entertainment that's guaranteed to transfix children, well beyond this, its fiftieth anniversary.
Frances Ha (2013)

Brims with funny ideas both verbal and visual that are finely tuned by Baumbach and his cast, and sharply edited...
Oliver! (1968)

Makes an epic impact, fully exploiting cinema to chase the intensity of a live musical while also allowing time for intimate expression of character.
Robot Chicken: Season 6 (2012)

Say what you will about stop-motion sketch-comedy show Robot Chicken, but there's nothing else like it on television.
Doctor Who: Complete Series 1-7 Limited Edition Blu-ray Giftset (2005)

It's Christmas morning for Whovians with the release of the entire rebooted Doctor Who series in 1080p high-definition on Blu-ray.
Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series (2010)

[A] family-friendly science-fiction series redefined for the new millenium by an especially grand, generous spirit to its storytelling.
Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series (2011)

The Doctor dead? Not on your life.
Doctor Who: The Complete Seventh Series (2012)

In the penultimate batch of episodes before Doctor Who's jubilee year, executive producer Steven Moffat continues to marvel with his ability to keep the time-and-space-travelling Doctor in ever-so-complicated trouble.
Doctor Who: The Complete First Series (2005)

Thundered back onto the BBC in a manner that honored the series' canon while also injecting new energy and reestablishing a show previously aimed primarily at children as one sophisticated enough that adult geeks could love it unabashedly.
Doctor Who: The Complete Specials (2009)

Davies, and especially Tennant, made Doctor Who more catchy than campy...
Shrek the Musical (2013)

The good-natured show...has a winningly inclusive spirit, a fantastical appeal, and a Vaudevillian comic showmanship that evoke The Wizard of Oz (surely a conscious inspiration).

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