The series draws one of the most nuanced portraits of sexual assault ever depicted on TV.
Still the most urgent and probably the most accessible film of the New German Cinema.
The film suggests that our political system is a popularity contest that functions for no one but those jockeying for power.
Ciro Guerra never quite finds an imagistic equivalent to the novel’s subtly hallucinogenic atmosphere.
The film justly draws attention to the perpetual work that must go into preserving democratic institutions.
The film never feels as satisfying or as haunting as its bow-tying epilogue strives for.
The film’s unreflective earnestness is haunting in all the wrong ways.
The film presents its scattershot cop-movie tropes in earnest, as if, like hurricanes, they were natural, unavoidable phenomena.
Klimov’s unbelievable vision of the agonizing hell of war is preserved in all its nightmarish beauty on this release.
With great clarity, the film conveys how discipline can be directed both inward and outward.
Agnieszka Holland’s film is also a tribute to those who see the world for what it is.
Convenient plot twists undermine its early pretense that it’s aiming for something other than to exploit our deepest, most regressive fears.
Social ills become frivolous punchlines in this dire slice of Hollywood escapism.
On the Record implicates nothing less than the entirety of American culture in hip-hop’s sins.
It ends as a sincere story about a young woman’s emotional reconciliation with her alien, perpetually troubled place of origin.
Around his main character, writer-director César Díaz builds a complex but unpretentious interrogation of national belonging.
Chris Hemsworth’s hyperbolically skilled soldier is borne of childish fantasies about the order of the world.
In more than one sense, Justin Kurzel’s aggressively strange film queers the myth of the oft-lionized Ned Kelly.
At its best, the film doesn’t just privilege altered states of consciousness, it is an altered state of consciousness.
Given its hero’s imperviousness, the film’s chaotically edited action sequences tend to be devoid of suspense.