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Daniel Fienberg
Chief Television Critic
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Chief TV Critic Daniel Fienberg joined The Hollywood Reporter in 2015. A former president of the Television Critics Association, Fienberg also hosts THR's weekly television podcast, TV's Top 5, with Lesley Goldberg. If that's not enough Fienberg content, subscribe to THR's Now See This newsletter, which offers recommendations, reminders and silly puns every Friday afternoon.
‘The Girls on the Bus’ Review: Max’s ‘Chasing Hillary’ Adaptation Earns Affection and Eye Rolls in Nearly Equal Measure
Melissa Benoist and Carla Gugino lead a series inspired by former New York Times reporter Amy Chozick's book about covering Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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‘Clemente’ Review: A Grounded and Emotional Documentary Tribute to a Legendary Athlete
David Altrogge's SXSW-premiering documentary looks at Pittsburgh Pirates great Roberto Clemente, with the help of EPs including Richard Linklater and LeBron James.
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‘Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted’ Review: A Cult Musician Gets a Fittingly Warm and Quirky Documentary
Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson's movie, premiering at the SXSW Film Festival, chronicles Swamp Dogg and his eccentric roommates, Guitar Shorty and Moogstar.
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‘Dickweed’ Review: A Severed Penis and a Prison Escape Somehow Make for a Bland Documentary
Jonathan Ignatius Green's SXSW doc about Hossein Nayeri is the two-part finale of an upcoming SundanceTV anthology true crime series.
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Critic’s Notebook: Busy and Eclectic Oscars 2024 Telecast Delivers Many Highlights (and a Few Lowlights)
Jimmy Kimmel held together a slightly manic 2024 Oscars telecast featuring mostly predictable winners, a dazzling musical salute to Barbie's boy toy, and several presenters in fine form.
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‘We Can Be Heroes’ Review: A Big-Hearted Celebration of LARP-ing Teens
Carina Mia Wong and Alex Simmons' SXSW-premiering documentary follows kids at a live action role-playing summer camp in upstate New York.
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‘MoviePass, MovieCrash’ Review: HBO Doc Is an Effectively Nostalgic Communal Wake for Film Fans
Muta'Ali's documentary looks back at what went right and then very wrong with the innovative, doomed service.
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‘3 Body Problem’ Review: Netflix’s Ambitious Sci-Fi Adaptation Is More Serviceable Than Dazzling
David Benioff, D. B. Weiss and Alexander Woo bring Liu Cixin's Chinese novel to the streamer with a season of eight episodes, the first of which premiered at SXSW.
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‘Stormy’ Review: Peacock’s Stormy Daniels Documentary Is Undone by Bad Choices (and Not Hers)
Sarah Gibson's feature-length doc portrays the adult entertainer and filmmaker as she lives her life in the eye of a Donald Trump-shaped storm.
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‘Boarders’ Review: A Strong Cast of Newcomers Elevates Tubi’s Likably Familiar High-School Dramedy
Daniel Lawrence Taylor's six-episode series looks at the fish-out-of-water adventures of five scholarship kids from South London at a posh prep school.
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‘Elsbeth’ Review: Carrie Preston’s ‘Good Wife’ Character Gets an Appealingly Broad CBS Spinoff
Cheery and calculating Elsbeth Tascioni leaps from her Chicago legal practice to a Columbo-esque mystery-solving gig in New York City in Robert and Michelle King's new series.
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‘The Regime’ Review: Kate Winslet Shines, but the Political Satire Is Shaky, in HBO Limited Series
The 'Mare of Easttown' star plays the autocratic chancellor of a fictional European republic in this new six-parter from 'Succession' veteran Will Tracy.
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