Vikas Yadav

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War is undoubtedly an empty exercise—one preoccupied with looking superficially cool and stylish.

What ultimately makes The Boroughs unremarkable is its lack of freshness—or even a fresh approach to familiar ideas and themes. At its core, the show is about embracing death and accepting it as an inevitable part of life. The results, however, are far from profound. They are faux-profound, filled with shots of characters briefly expressing sadness or inner conflict. There is a wealth of drama in the choice Wally must make between his cancer and eternal life, but the show merely gestures toward the dilemma before abandoning it in favor of the safest, most sanitized option. Also, I don't quite know what to make of the fact that, in a show urging viewers not to fear death, we still get that tired cliché where someone, while dying, shares a sentimental heart-to-heart conversation with a loved one, only to be magically revived a few minutes later. Maybe the series should swallow its own mantra before preaching it. For a show about young-at-heart characters making risky choices to do what's right, The Boroughs itself is safe, tame, and ordinary. It's feeble and formulaic; it's old in spirit.

Created by Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg, Nick Kroll, and Mark Levin, the adult animated comedy Mating Season stays very true to its title. There are plenty of smutty jokes, sexual situations, double entendres, and weird kinks on display here. The show's subtitle could be "Sex, Sex, Sex, and Sex." There is monogamy, polygamy, infidelity, orgies, and open relationships. The paint predominantly used to color this canvas seems to have been extracted from the hormones of a horny teen. The humor, though, is not completely juvenile. Sure, there's an "excellent-sexcellent" lazy pun in there somewhere, but the creators can often be inventive. Consider how the show presents the world of dating apps for its animal characters. Instead of downloading an app on your smartphone, you dive into a hole that drops you onto a chair across from your match, wander into a field for a group-sex encounter, or head to a place where you learn about a potential partner by sniffing their piss; if you like what you smell, you piss on their piss. One of the animals here is known as Creepy Dave, and he feeds soup to the panties he buys from a raccoon named Ray (Nick Kroll), who, in turn, keeps them as cherished memories from his one-night stands.

Chand Mera Dil is a glossy affair terrified of its own complexities.

Bad Thoughts is filled with gleefully gross humor.

If this is Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's way of advancing as a filmmaker, then it should be noted that the progression is occurring backwards. Instead of evolving, Tiwari is undergoing a severe devolution.

The second season of The Four Seasons often resembles an audiobook you can listen to while doing anything else.

In A Foggy Tale, Chen Yu-hsun remains curiously level-headed throughout. Scenes that might have turned cloying or excessively brutal in the hands of a lesser filmmaker are presented in a matter-of-fact manner.

Everything in Chasing Love feels about as real as a unicorn.

The Great Grand Superhero is a children's film that disrespects children.