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From its kinetic and colorful animation to the playful irreverence, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" owes a clear debt to another recent superhero franchise -- taking a trip through the Turtle-Verse, if you will. Energetic and sporadically funny, it's a passable effort to jump-start a comic-book franchise that has enjoyed a long if uneven crawl across the screen.

Winging back to Amazon more than four years after its debut, "Good Omens" relies on the genial interactions of its cast in a whimsical trip filtered through the strange millennia-spanning relationship between an angel and demon. The plot, in fact, is practically irrelevant in this six-episode second season, other than providing the excuse for Michael Sheen and David Tennant's heavenly reunion.

Movies and TV have enjoyed a fertile run of rise-and-fall business stories, from Theranos to WeWork to Chippendales. Add to that list "The Beanie Bubble," a nostalgia-infused look back at the plush-toy craze that swept America, turned collectors into "investors" and abruptly went as flat as a doll with the stuffing knocked out of it.

"Yellowstone" writer-producer Taylor Sheridan has excelled at luring big stars to television with relatively thin material, a formula that feels especially transparent with "Special Ops: Lioness," his latest series for Paramount+. Zoe Saldaña takes point in this fact-based tale of female special-ops soldiers, which races through the set up by relying on a litany of war-story cliches.

Sure to draw additional attention because of questions surrounding Jamie Foxx's health, "They Cloned Tyrone" turns out to be buzzworthy on its own with its conspiracy-minded, sci-fi-tinged twist on who might really be pulling the strings in urban neighborhoods. Slow to start, the movie taps into a genre of "What's behind the curtain?" paranoia that's provocative, if a little slim on detail.

Unlike most biographical documentaries, "Stephen Curry: Underrated" benefits from having two very distinct windows in mind, both buttressing its underlying point: Curry as a barely recruited, under-sized high school prospect, before merging as a college star at Davidson; and his most recent title with the Golden State Warriors. Either would be good enough, but put together, "Underrated" shoots and scores.

The Max docuseries wades through 85 years of comics history in just three parts. The voyage, in print and on the screen, comes at a crossroads for DC, one that suggests all paths usually lead back to Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.

"Oppenheimer" seeks to match the mythological nature of its central theme -- an "American Prometheus," punished for bringing humankind the seeds of its potential destruction -- with a movie of equal heft, scale and (most of all) length. Writer-director Christopher Nolan's epic film essentially consists of three chapters, with the middle, Atlas-like, holding up the weaker, drawn-out beginning and end.

"Barbie" comes roaring out of the gate with an inventiveness and energy the movie perhaps inevitably can't sustain. Amid all the hype that has made its release an increasingly rare movie-going occasion, director Greta Gerwig's film proves an admirably ambitious attempt to ponder where Barbie fits in the 21st century -- less than it could be, but pretty close to being what it should be.

Just seeing Timothy Olyphant locked and loaded again as Raylan Givens will probably be enough for fans of "Justified," but the FX revival subtitled "City Primeval" more than justifies the encore. Featuring an older Givens with more to lose facing off against a truly nasty bad guy, the eight-part series overcomes a few clunkier elements to deliver the expected shoot-from-the-hip charms.

To anyone whose first thought hearing Wilt Chamberlain's name is the number of women he claimed to have slept with, rest assured, "Goliath" has you covered. But the three-part Showtime documentary proves most notable for portraying the sensitive soul underneath the NBA great's brash exterior, as well as his trailblazing on behalf of athletes having a say in their careers and future.

Reuniting director Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon (the writer of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Men in Black"), "Full Circle" wages a battle between being twisty and feeling convoluted, finally coming out on the short end. An impressive cast makes this HBO limited series reasonably watchable, but in this case, what goes around doesn't completely come around.