Pixar’s superfluous but characteristically touching epilogue for its flagship franchise gets an equally fond send-off on home video.
The film seamlessly interweaves fun escapades and earnest emotions, but it lacks the visual power of its predecessor.
The film is more interested in how people respond to extreme emotional crises than to everyday life.
The film is content to deliver a few jumpy thrills before slinking away into the night like one of its murderous marauders.
Good Girls wants you to know it is capital-F feminist, and it’s as subtle about it as a bright pink pussy hat.
Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s film is ultimately a genre item that operates on alternately prestigious and campy autopilot.
Over-stuffed and under-conceived, Fist Fight is a clumsy mélange of clashing comedic perspectives.
Bad Santa 2 shows that the most hopeless situations can be remedied and just about anyone is capable of redemption.
The simmering insinuations of Nicolas Winding Refn’s film eventually flower into full-on exploitation.
Hap and Leonard’s absurdly, effectively pregnant atmosphere will be familiar to those who’ve seen Jim Mickle’s films.
The payoff is a huge and telling visual howler, summarizing the entire plot with a blithe indifference that will inevitably mirror the audience’s.
Considering that “Person to Person” is the series finale of Mad Men, it’s best to start with its final images.
Last night’s episode of Mad Men is all about life as a series of entrances and exits.
The dark truth at the center of the episode is that business is always personal.
The writers also confront the dangers of not staying in the present.
A tangle of violent, symbolic gestures that regards economic exploitation with fetishistic, impossibly overdetermined abandon.
Bookended by Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is?” the episode opens with a telling bit of trickery.
Matthew Weiner and company make a point of echoing Cutler’s flippantly opportunistic nature twice over before the episode concludes.
The more overwhelming intimation of the title is the idea of making plans in general, and the unwavering fallibility of said activity.
Throughout, it becomes difficult to know whether we’re meant to empathize with these characters or laugh at them.