What’s worth your time in TV and movies this weekend?
EW’s critics review the latest and upcoming releases, including The Old Man and Mad Dog.
Hustle
Out now on Netflix
The thrill of an underdog story never really gets old.
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(Who roots, after all, for the overdogs?)
Then one night, waylaid in Spain, Stan finds his unicorn at a pickup game.
What follows doesn’t reinvent the sports-story wheel; it’s hardly even spinning it forward.
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So it’s a thrill for the actor to finally take center stage in this retro-procedural.
The show wants to dig deep into the cultural context around the officers.
The mystery unfolds slowly.
Jeff Bridges and his canine co-stars in ‘The Old Man’.Prashant Gupta/FX
Not enough of the supporting characters have the same texture as Leaphorn and Chee.
The supernatural intrigue doesn’t entirely work.
Still, this is an atmospheric crime thriller with real potential.
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And, ifDark Windsgets another season, that would give McClarnon two great ongoing tribal-police roles.
Don’t forget his sweetly comedic supporting role inReservation Dogs.
“Any more you send at me, I’m sending back in bags,” Chase growls.
Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum join Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in ‘Jurassic World Dominion.'.John Wilson/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
We watch him descend through a hellscape of gooey ruin.
Tippett created the AT-ATs inThe Empire Strikes Backand ED-209 inRoboCop.
The peculiar organic awkwardness of those robo-monsters is all overMad God’s vibrant apocalypse.
(All the machines look unbearably intestinal; there’s a whole population of fecal sentients.)
It’s a feast for animation heads and people who thinkBioShockwas too Disney.
That stuff with the baby creature?Mad God, Good Lord!B+D.F.
There are giant locusts the size of drones that Biosyn has unleashed to eat non-GMO crops.
