The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
The quantity of gags does not preclude quality, which is most obvious in the smart repartee between characters.
It’s an overused premise dressed up with new cars, bright sun, and cool shades.
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Community has a boldness to it that sets it apart from traditional network sitcoms.
The show induces yawns in its attempt to capture the meandering lifestyle and mindset of thirtysomething losers.
Right off the bat, something feels slightly off about the long-overdue seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
The episode wants us to ponder the theme of parents and their children and the various ways both groups disappoint each other.
Everybody in the episode is performing on one level or another.
Project Runway is all pleasure and no guilt.
The episode places itself in the midst of people trying to cope with the fact that everything is changing, both in the world at large and in their personal lives.
On Mad Men, the drama proceeds directly from the characters.
As with much of the products being pitched on Mad Men, no one turns out to be exactly as advertised.
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The Hurt Locker is generally very natural, with only a couple of scenes where you hear the clicking of the writer’s computer keyboard.
Warehouse 13 doesn’t quite seem to know where it wants to go.
Departures is a lovely, moving, funny, and hugely satisfying film.
Not unlike Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, personal anguish here proves emotionally cathartic.
America has always felt like a palace built to honor white males.
There’s a refreshing lack of pretense to the show’s presentation.
Billed as the “Drama in the Bahamas,” The Superstars is anything but.