Franklin’s masterful neo-noir receives a gorgeous A/V transfer from Criterion.
Kino’s stacked 4K edition requires no deliberation before adding it to your shopping cart.
Boldly stylized and intricately structured, The Killing gets a sterling 4K transfer and one very satisfying supplement from Kino Lorber.
Zarchi’s cult classic gets a definitive home-video release from Ronin Flix.
Clark Franklin’s One False Move brings a shotgun to a knife fight, and the results aren’t pretty.
The trite way Southern life is represented makes the main character’s potential endgame seem stagnantly preordained and one-note.
Anurag Kashyap’s saga is a portrait of 20th-century Indian history viewed through the vibrant, reference-heavy lens of Bollywood cinema.
The series finale of Kurt Sutter’s super-violent Shakespearean biker-gang saga represents a high-water mark.
Jax spends much of the episode trying to mend the bursted gangland seem that he was entirely responsible for opening.
The slow-moving guillotine that’s been hovering over the heads of so many characters in the final season starts to speed up in this episode.
It’s been a while since Sons of Anarchy has unleashed a parade of carnal images like the ones that begin this episode.
Images fixated on agitation abound in the episode’s early stretch.
The episode merely bides time until the bloody series finale and leaving viewers in a state of disorientation.
While Bobby’s fate is left in the balance, the fact remains that Jax and his leather-clad brethren can no longer deny who has the upper hand.
Throughout, labels of race often express the long-gestating tension between different gangs, especially when there’s a drastic shift of power on the streets.
If it weren’t for all the bloodstains and gaping wounds, the eerie opening shot might seem like the beginning of a party sequence gone wrong.
Directed by Guy Ferland, it’s a nasty and sleek episode that plays off the striking tonal juxtaposition between calm and chaos.
For a few moments at the beginning of the episode, Sons of Anarchy doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Cagey strategies occasionally play a role in taking out enemies foreign and domestic, but SAMCRO prefers all-out blitzkrieg.
The show’s seventh and final season will be a reckoning for the countless sins of its lead character and Hamlet stand-in.