The relative grace of the action direction only underscores how disjointed the rest of the film is.
In comparison to its predecessors, Quantumania is laborious and self-serious to a fault.
Disney’s 4K transfer is an early contender for the best-looking home video release of the year.
This West Side Story, though, is at its best when it zooms in and settles down into character study.
The emotional planeness of the film’s aesthetic too frequently robs all the cathartic eruptions of emotion of much of their power.
In the end, it can’t help but sentimentalize the better angels that supposedly reside in the land of liberty’s flawed human fabric.
On an almost bare stage, the scenes bleed into each other with little sense that the setting or situation has changed.
The show’s third and final season struggles to consistently build gripping stories for its vivid characters to inhabit.
The film’s satisfyingly tactile action set pieces serve to hammer home just how perilous the space race really was.
The film is content to present Anton Chekhov’s ideas rather than grapple with their provocative and complex subtexts.
Stephen Gaghan’s Gold finds no treasure of gleaming originality in its crushingly clichéd anti-capitalist parable.
It potently clarifies how our lives are spent distracted from matters of the closest personal significance.
The episode deals with several kinds of love: romantic, platonic, and that sparkly feeling somewhere in between.
The tectonic shifts in the inner lives of Girls’s main characters sometimes bring them back together.
Like a Jane Austen novel, Girls seems obsessed lately with pairing its main characters up with long-term mates.
Tim Blake Nelson’s film immerses itself into as many pain-induced (and painful) subplots as it possibly can.
The film is a lightly dramatized case file that’s structurally averse to world-building and psychological portraiture.
The payoff is a huge and telling visual howler, summarizing the entire plot with a blithe indifference that will inevitably mirror the audience’s.
Compounding the leaden pace are the shoehorned references that connect the film to the continuity of the Marvel universe.
The Emperor’s New Clothes suggests that Russell Brand has picked up a few tactics from Michael Moore.