Although the conclusion is foregone, this year’s visual effects category reveals some hard truths about the current state of big-budget moviemaking.
These shorts find themselves awkwardly divided along a clear line between “serious” experimental offerings and innocuous consumer-friendly fare.
Following the gradually revealed deeper shades to the pair’s relationship in the first two seasons, the emotional canvas fully materializes here.
Its emotional payoff materializes before the shower of gunfire and explosions that pervade the final act of the episode.
This time, the portrait of the Governor’s inner torment and unrest is more nuanced.
“Live Bait” develops into one of The Walking Dead’s most quietly refreshing entries.
“Internment” reintroduces the familiar, overt philosophical musings of its earlier seasons.
The dilemma of letting go of the past versus holding on to it has slowly emerged as the central conflict in the fourth season.
One of the more noteworthy elements of “Isolation” is that it’s not nearly as Rick-centric as most episodes.
After last week’s quiet game of setup, the action starts fast and strong in the second episode of The Walking Dead’s fourth season.
It specifically reinforces that character depth and exposition are not among the show’s strong suits.
Monty Python was arguably the most versatile of comic troupes.
Of all the feature films in Pixar’s impressive repertoire, Finding Nemo has arguably proven the most durable.
Outside of the earnest and grounding turn by Warwick Davis, the characters and accompanying performances are uniformly maladroit.
Subtlety isn’t a quality that dignifies the nominees in this category.
Let’s try to rid our minds of the deplorable notion that Spielberg and Lee are contending for an award that belongs to Affleck.
Just as we’d expect from the Academy, there’s no shortage of lushness on display in this year’s nominees for best cinematography.
The larger-than-life aura that Daniel Day-Lewis breathes into the characters he portrays seems also to have in recent years extended to the actor himself.
Conventional wisdom would suggest that Brave is a favorite to take this year’s prize.
Looking back on the last decade of winners in this category, you might begin to see a pattern.