Inventing Anna suffers from a few meandering detours but succeeds in its goal of elevating its central figure.
It typifies American politics with a brand of acidic cynicism that yields big laughs and increasingly unlikable characters.
NBC’s Hannibal ran for three seasons, but its concept called for at least twice as many.
It does well in using dialogue to shape its escalating tête-à-tête, but the filmmaking is too fuzzy to expand on those ideas.
It seems to suggest that political life is so all-consuming that no happy, well-adjusted person would ever choose to be a part of it.
It isn’t a disservice to Louis-Dreyfus to say that her Emmy award for the role is in many ways a reflection of the quality of the supporting cast.
It’s perhaps a sign of Veep’s realism that the new HBO comedy feels a lot like a receptacle.
What begins as a puzzling situation with rather competent dialogue soon founders into a formulaic denouement.
Armando Iannucci’s debut feature In The Loop carries on the staggering comedic traditions of its source material.