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Outfoxed and out of its depth

BOMBSHELL

directed by Jay Roach

Bombshell contains none really. In its telling of the downfall of Roger Ailes, the man who turned Fox News into an echo chamber for right-wing America and ended his days having helped spark the #metoo movement, this glib if entertaining drama has already been beaten to the punch.

The expansive and edgier television series last week won

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