The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
What makes the whole thing gel successfully is a canny creative team.
John Michael Hayes was one of the best screenwriters of the 1950s and ’60s.
The flaw in Clint Eastwood’s iris.
Charlie Kaufman makes the basic rookie mistake most people do when they direct their first feature.
I was so busy trying to find Anne Hathaway’s face in the frame that I missed the emotion she was expressing.
It seems not at all coincidental that Don is visually defined by that broad-shouldered suit and the hat that shades his eyes.
This being a big-budget American film, there is the obligatory car chase, not bad of its kind.
I have not read the novel, but James McBride’s screenplay is a mess.
After hitting fans with bombshells a-plenty in “Six Months’ Leave,” it’s only to be expected from Mad Men that the follow-up would go in an entirely different direction.
What we need is the Broadcast News version of The Women.
Ironically, I watched “Six Months’ Leave” for the second time the night before I learned of David Foster Wallace’s death.
From the opening title sequence of Dexter, the motif of humans-as-meat is firmly established.
Claude Chabrol knows this territory and how to run it on film.
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Talk about rookie mistakes.
The premiere of Fringe does not reveal much beyond what we already know about the mind of producer J.J. Abrams.
At the end of the episode, the biggest thematic question remains unanswered: Who is the golden violin, apparently perfect in all ways but unable to play music?
Pity the poor vampire.
I feel awkward whenever I cop to it, but it’s true, and it probably always will be: I just don’t like Peggy Olson.
One of the unsung strengths of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion is its masterful sense of visual composition.
This is a first-rate addition to one of my favorite genres, the thriller on a train.