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Monday, December 8 2008

24: Redemption

Redemption manages to locate an emotional center than had been missing from 24 since…well, if not ever, since at least the first season.


Friday, November 21 2008

24: Redemption

In Africa, where children are forced to soldier, Jack realizes, every day is full of terror -- not just the 24-hour spates he's used to confronting.


Friday, September 28 2007

NUMB3RS

NUMB3RS combines two of television's most staply of staples, crime-fighting and family drama.


Monday, January 22 2007

24: Day Six

As 24's sixth day takes shape, it looks as though moral certainty isn't what it used to be.


Monday, January 31 2005

Numb3rs

Though we see Charlie scribbling furiously on his chalkboard and mathematical equations float across the screen periodically, no one explains what all those numbers and letters and formulas mean.


Wednesday, October 27 2004

Breakin’ All the Rules: Special Edition (2004)

All rules of attraction and self-definition are just off when it comes to the utterly beautiful and notoriously nice Chestnut.


Thursday, May 13 2004

Breakin’ All the Rules (2004)

As lovers who lie to one another as a kind of mating ritual, Gabrielle Union and Jamie Foxx do about as well as possible.


Sunday, January 1 1995

Ally McBeal

At first, the fourth season's casting of Robert Downey, Jr. as a love interest for Ally seemed cheap and easy publicity for both show and actor. Maybe it was, but it paid off handsomely.


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