“Edge of the Earth”: Less concerned about why extreme athletes pursue death-defying feats, and more attuned to showcasing those activities in nature, this four-part HBO docuseries gives adrenaline junkies and armchair adventurers plenty of reason to claw their couches to shreds. Details: 4 stars available now on HBO and HBO Max. “The Rehearsal” is so uncommon, so smart that I suspect it’ll be written about, dissected and argued over for years to come.
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It’s a frank, unorthodox look at ourselves, our obsession with reality TV stars and our relentless, often selfish desire to be that lone puppet master pulling all the strings and determining the fates of others. The elephant-in-the-room question is whether “The Rehearsal” is real. Sound odd? It is but it’s also endlessly fascinating as the elaborate scheme finds Fielder turning into a manipulative Oz, overstepping ethical boundaries and then suffering from existential doubts himself. Comedian Nathan Fielder cooks up a “Truman Show”-like concept featuring “real” people, from a bar trivia player, a single evangelical Christian wanna-be mom and a brother squeezed out of a will and so on, rehearsing their roles and/or come-to-Jesus exchanges that they need to work through.
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“The Rehearsal”: While there are too many zero-calorie reality series out there, this edgy HBO series, with its innovative and uncomfortable-making premise, is like no other. Review: Elba is commanding in B-movie-ish ‘Beast’ Details: 2½ stars out of 4 opens in theaters and on Netflix July 22. Framed around breathtaking action sequences - a grandiose mano-a-mano fireworks kerfuffle in Thailand, a ridiculously over-the-top but exciting car chase in Vienna and so on, “The Gray Man” barrels along, burning the millions of dollars earmarked for its cast, globetrotting ways and special effects. Toss in Billy Bob Thornton as the Gray Man’s current point man and Ana de Armas as a kindred kick-ass assassin, and you wind up with a Jason Bourne/”Mission: Impossible” imposter that exchanges all its brain cells for pure brawn. Gosling makes for a very fine spy on the run, a fall guy who’s targeted for death by a former boss played with coiffed menace by “Bridgerton’s” impossibly beautiful Rege-Jean Paul. And does it ever deliver.Īs a covert American assassin dubbed the “Gray Man,” Ryan Gosling outshines everyone else in the cast, including the charismatic and funny Chris Evans, a hoot as Gray’s mustachioed and white-panted spy nemesis. Based on Mark Greaney’s best-selling spy thriller, “The Gray Man” doesn’t give a damn what critics will think of it since it exists solely to take audiences on a thrill ride of epic proportions. “The Gray Man”: Leave it to the Russo brothers (“Captain America: Winter Soldier,” “Avengers: Endgame”) to go completely bonkers with their star-studded, overblown and spectacularly preposterous $200 million Netflix action extravaganza. A big-budget Netflix spy thriller and an Amazon rom-com coming out July 22 are here for your streaming pleasure while the big, lone theatrical release is the much-anticipated “Nope” from “Get Out’s” Jordan Peele (unfortunately, it screened too late for review).