Sylvester Stallone plays a reluctant hero in Amazon’s ‘Samaritan’

An animated, comic-book-inspired opening turns out to be the best part of “Samaritan,” a very by-the-numbers superhero tale that casts Sylvester Stallone as the long-retired title character, and otherwise feels like and exhibits the production values of a 1990s TV pilot. While tolerable on its own terms, the charitable thing to do critically speaking would probably be to ignore it.Continue Reading

‘Mike’s’ knockout performance doesn’t pack enough new punch to go the distance

Mike Tyson’s story hardly is suffering from a lack of media publicity, so an effort to create a new limited series around the former heavyweight champ entered the particular ring facing a high bar. Despite the knockout performance simply by Trevante Rhodes, “Mike” doesn’t consistently obvious it, offering a good episodic, occasionally too-irreverent tone in seeking to portray not just the boxer but those who passed through his umlaufbahn.Continue Reading