TV Reviews4.6/10
Octavia Spencer’s True-Crime Podcast Series Opens Strong but Runs Out of Gas
A true-crime drama with a great premise, but the pacing sags across three seasons, leaving only the first season worth your time.
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Movie Reviews5.3/10
Spencer’s Sue Ann Makes ‘Ma’ Worth Watching Despite Its Draggy Middle
A woman in a small town befriends a group of teenagers, feeding them alcohol in her basement until terror takes hold.
Movie Reviews6.3/10
Hathaway and Spencer Can’t Save Roald Dahl’s The Witches From Thin Plotting
A tale of witches, terror and spectacle, wherein a boy and his grandmother face a gathering of monsters led by the Grand High Witch.
Movie Reviews7.5/10
Viola Davis Deserves Better Than the Movie That Made Her a Star
A review of Tate Taylor's 2011 drama The Help, starring Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, set in Jackson, Mississippi, 1963.
Movie Reviews7.4/10
Black Women Mathematicians Got the Space Program Up, and the Film Finally Said So
Hidden Figures review: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe play the NASA mathematicians who put John Glenn in orbit. 7.4/10.