The show’s minor characters leave vivid impressions while surfacing some truth about the major players.
The filmmaker discusses his writing process, what skateboarding taught him about filmmaking, and why he loves revenge movies.
The tectonic shifts in the inner lives of Girls’s main characters sometimes bring them back together.
The episode belongs to Marnie, who breaks the seal on the superficially successful but spiritually unfulfilling life she’s clung to up until now.
Despite the occasional cliché, this film mostly feels as messy as life, and as movingly complicated.
The episode focuses on the surprising difficulty of figuring out who and what makes us feel at home.
The film’s horror is spookily and movingly expressive of the tenuous position of women in 1980s Iran.
The premise is undermined by the film’s tendency to soft-pedal the dangerous situations it sets up.
The film, like the misattributed quote Anna solemnly parrots, is as hollow as the old tree in the Beams’ backyard.
Like a Jane Austen novel, Girls seems obsessed lately with pairing its main characters up with long-term mates.
Well-chosen sets and costumes go a long way toward setting the Kris Avedisian film’s lived-in tone.
Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are such superbly articulate and specific performers that it’s hard not to empathize with their characters.
The film doesn’t do much to satirize the spy genre, instead using its flimsy plot mostly as scaffolding for a barrage of jokes.
This season has constructed situations for the characters that could hold steady after the series ends.
Its feminist perspective checkmates the misogyny and machismo that too often mar films set in combat zones.
The theme of growing up, in fits and starts, is a through line in “Good Man.”
The season-five premiere of Girls is a microcosm of the series as a whole.
The film is a complication-smoothing take on Jesse Owens’s elegant riposte to Hitler’s racism at the 1936 Olympics.
The film is a thinly dramatized series of arguments against, then ultimately in favor of the medication of bipolar disorder.
The actor was analytical, witty, and sincere as he talked about the Zen of discovering his Hateful Eight character.