Coen’s film knows when to pay homage and when to move to its own rhythm.
It pulses with relevancy in a time when debates over authoritarianism, protests, and the necessity of radicalism are convulsing America.
Jon Stewart’s amiable satire tries to show that you can make light political comedy in the Trump era.
It conspicuously tries to distance itself from the revenge film’s propensity toward florid excess.
Sadly, Homeland can’t leave well enough alone and soon falls back on narrative shortcuts.
The episode’s triumph is the way it continues to observe the fallout of large political actions.
The episode eerily and effectively depicts how stories can be orchestrated and flipped on a dime.
The episode plunges head-on into the murkiness of doubt that even the show’s heroes act like villains.
It may be the first movie in which a character stops shaving his chest in order to express his independence.