Flaked is about an addict’s self-glorification as an increasingly flimsy house of cards.
The presentation is simply okay, but it’s refreshing to see this startlingly lurid, well acted, and egregiously underrated thriller accorded any love at all.
Creed cannily funnels decades of American social tension into a tense and moving interracial buddy story.
Jordan Galland confidently perches the film right on the razor’s edge separating absurdist comedy from horror.
Sword of Destiny has an appealingly inventive, unruly party streak running down its figurative back.
Hap and Leonard’s absurdly, effectively pregnant atmosphere will be familiar to those who’ve seen Jim Mickle’s films.
The season finale, written and directed by series creator Chris Carter, is charged with implicative catharsis.
Erika Frankel’s documentary is finally revealed to be a story of prolonged adjustment to retirement, and a poignant illustration of sublimated redemption.
The episode is tone deaf in a memorable what-the-hell-were-they-thinking sort of way.
A beautiful presentation of a film that merges the tropes of the 007 series with a startlingly expressive aesthetic.
Travis Zariwny detachedly regards the material as shtick to be waded through with quotation marks.
Vinyl never feels as if it’s truly about the record business, which instead serves as a backdrop for iconic guest characters and mob-movie set pieces.
The charismatic actors are weary of their roles without condescending to the material, and the lean concept is becoming for an under-the-radar thriller.
“Home Again” pivots on two narratives, one of which is promising and occasionally quite chilling.
The series is so casually beautiful as to risk being taken for granted.
A solidly attractive transfer from Twilight Time of a key film in the American New Wave of the late 1960s and ’70s.
A grippingly expressive espionage yarn, another exemplary entry in Spielberg’s late-career period, receives a top-tier, must-buy transfer.
Southbound is yet another contemporary horror film that belongs to seemingly every era but its own.
Duchovny has some wonderful moments in the prior episodes of the season, but this is the first time this season that he’s really come to play.
Every moment in this strange and wonderful film is imbued with mystery and revealing dignity.