Apple TV-Plus’ Benjamin Franklin Drama Equally Intrigues And Bores

[rebelmouse-proxy-image https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-30-at-1.56.01 PM-1200x675.png crop_info="%7B%22image%22%3A%20%22https%3A//thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-30-at-1.56.01%5Cu202fPM-1200x675.png%22%7D" expand=1]'Franklin' is quiet and flawed, but it's easy to forgive something rare.

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The documentary paints a unified teenage struggle with womanhood but misses out on any of the more substantive policy conversations.

The Message Of Apple TV’s ‘Hijack’: Don’t Be A Hero, Just Let Criminals Be Criminals

Idris Elba's 'vulnerable' character is a clear message that thinking people need not and should not resort to brutish resistance.

‘Spirited’ Falls Flat Because ‘A Christmas Carol’ Doesn’t Work Without Christianity At The Center

Even with so much money and celebrity, filmmakers struggle with the themes that define Christmas and stories like 'A Christmas Carol.'

Kim Kardashian Beats Hillary Clinton In Legal Quiz

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'Severance' doesn't squander its potential so much as leave so much of its potential untouched.

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Think of 'The Morning Show' like the Harper's Letter of television: corporate progressives questioning their illiberalism without conceding the cause is rooted in their own ideology

If Leftists Knew How Much ‘Ted Lasso’ Undermines Them, They’d Cancel It

The sense of hope that 'Ted Lasso' instills is something we all hanker for — and it's something you won't find in today's modern left.