The 30 Best TV Shows on HBO Max (That Aren’t HBO)
Our picks for the best classic TV, crime shows, comedy series and more on HBO Max.
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The 100 Best Movies on The Criterion Channel (September 2025)
We’ve curated a list of 100 amazing movies available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Here are the best Criterion Channel movies:
Messy, Melodramatic Thriller The Girlfriend Plays With Our Ideas of Perception
Prime Video’s melodramatic thriller The Girlfriend lets Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke go toe-to-toe in entertainingly unhinged ways.
Modest Mouse Talk Music Cruises, Time Travel, Rollercoasters and Hot Air Balloons, and Psychic Salamander Festival
Q&A: With the band’s festival happening this weekend, we rang up Isaac Brock in his studio to get the scoop on the event, the new Modest Mouse album he’s working on, and the 25th anniversary of The Moon & Antarctica.
The Smashing Machine is an Extreme Fighting Biopic That Sits at a Strange, Subdued Remove
The Smashing Machine is sensitive, texturally rich, and technically strong, but it only half succeeds in its MMA melodrama.