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In ‘Your Friends & Neighbors,’ Jon Hamm is back in Don Draper territory

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In “Your Friends and Neighbors,” premiering Friday on Apple TV+, Jon Hamm plays Andrew Cooper, called Coop, a well-paid, well-placed hedge fund trader who is fired from his job, ostensibly for violating a company policy about fraternization in the ranks. He has already lost his wife, Mel (Amanda Peet), whom he discovered in bed with … Read more

Review: Trauma haunts ‘The Monkey,’ but the film is more interested in going bananas

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Can a horror movie itself suffer from nervous fright? That’s the only explanation for the numbing lack of thrills or chills or dread in Osgood Perkins’ “The Monkey.” Given its overabundance of empty shock humor, the movie seems afraid to be about much of anything except its toy monkey’s prankish body count. Maybe it’s a … Read more