After watching this Welsh racehorse drama, even those of us who’d struggle to pronounce the word may find ourselves feeling a bit of hwyl.
The film is Quentin Tarantino’s magnum opus, a sweeping statement on an entire generation of American popular culture.
When it rains, it pours.
Part of the pleasure of Gary Ross’s film lies in watching it turn a typically male-dominated genre on its head.
Throughout the film, Werner Herzog appears to be straining to impersonate his idea of classical studio craftsmanship.
It works as both a modern morality play for our globalized world and as an indictment of Europe’s ethical bankruptcy.
In Billions, money isn’t money, but a scorecard signifying a theoretically cold and objective qualification of bitterness and one-upmanship.
We have no doubt that we’ll be miffed by how some of these categories shake out on Sunday night.
For all the sound and fury it expends to propel this season’s narrative in new directions, “Redux” sends Homeland hurtling into history.
One’s enjoyment of “The Star” and, really, the entire third season of Homeland boils down to whether one is a fan of redemption stories.
For three seasons, Homeland has been having it both ways with the exceedingly charismatic Damian Lewis.
Ultimately, it isn’t luck or faith that Homeland is interested in, but humanity.
More a matter of what Homeland needs to move forward than what viewers might actually want, but it’s a necessary evil.
Carrie’s actions may be morally correct, but they work against the greater needs of the country, and so she’s not permitted to act on her own.
Based on the title of this week’s episode of Homeland, the question seems to be how much anyone can actually know, or be “positive” about.
“The Yoga Play,” both the episode and the spy tactic that Carrie uses within it, is little more than a distraction.
Every sacrifice the series has made up to this point now feels redeemed.
This week’s relentlessly bleak Homeland finally catches the audience up on what Nicholas Brody has been up to.
Not even when the doomed Juliet reaches for Romeo’s dagger do you feel a single vicarious pain in your gut.
You can remodel a bathroom, but you can’t remodel a human being; intangible things, like reputations, are not so easily mended.