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"Ambulance" is best when it's content to be gleefully stupid, which is about two-thirds of the time.

Jake Adelstein, the first non-Japanese reporter on staff at Japan's largest newspaper, has had his 2009 memoir about working the police beat adapted into a 10-episode series for HBO Max, "Tokyo Vice." Half that meal has been made available for review, and it is so far an intriguing mix of…

Deep into director Michael Mann’s 1995 crime epic, “Heat,” a team of skilled criminals attempts to steal millions of dollars from a Los Angeles bank. When a highly trained police unit arrives on the scene, machine gunfire erupts in the streets around the bank as the thieves attempt to flee…

Director Michael Mann returns to the crime scene with a ‘90s Japanese police drama

Thursday brings the much anticipated premiere of celebrated director Michael Mann’s latest series, “Tokyo Vice.” The first three episodes will debut on HBO Max this week, with pairs of episodes dropping every Thursday after that until the finale on April 28. The series, filmed on location in Tokyo, is inspired…

The acclaimed auteur casts Ansel Elgort as an American journalist uncovering a world of gangsters in a simple but entertaining new series

Ken Watanabe shines in 'Tokyo Vice,' a gorgeous but uneven new yakuza-centric crime drama. The first three episodes of the series premiere Thursday, April 7, on HBO Max.

In the lead-up to Sunday’s 94th Oscars ceremony on ABC, there’s been all kinds of panicked flop sweat about dwindling audience numbers and reversing the trend. The deeper anxiety is that the Oscars are losing their relevance altogether as a must-see event. To which I say: They are and so…

Ukrainian authorities say Russian control of plant is hampering efforts to control the blazes

In the latest United Nations report on climate change, scientists document the stark toll inflicted by global warming through more intense heat waves, droughts, floods and other disasters, and present a dire warning that humanity should act quickly to move away from fossil fuels and cut planet-heating emissions.

Scientists say “baked-in” climate warming is a myth but we must reduce emissions now