The Best TV of 2025 You May Have Missed
These best TV shows you may have missed include a show that’s ludicrously funny, one filled with scattershot mayhem, one that’s brutal and macabre, and a surreal comedy.
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Peering Through the Hazy Past: Floyd Patterson and Fats Domino
Even as Black America continues to battle crime, violence, death, and a hostile political and economic policy, it can be soothing to peer through the haze and marvel at the richness of Black American stories. Two such stories: Floyd Patterson and Fats Domino.
‘Ali: A Life’ Chronicles a Rhyming, Jabbing, Heroic Contradiction
In the first-ever unauthorized biography of Muhammad Ali, Jonathan Eig captures the icon's triumphant, tragic, and quintessentially American arc with exquisite detail and original analysis.
‘Jawbone’ Challenges its Viewers: Should a Film Be Judged By Our Gut or Mind?
Thomas Napper’s Jawbone is to be felt, lived, and it remembered and written about as a film pulled up from the guts of its storytellers.
Muhammad Ali and the Day Fans Pelted the Ring With Trash
In his new book, Ali vs. Inoki, Josh Gross untangles the complicated history of the 1976 meeting of two legends -- and a failed experiment.
“Southpaw’s” Punches Are Too Predictable
Jake Gyllenhaal's performance is the only shining light in a film that relies too heavily on clichés.