Though its lugubrious and plodding narrative spins its wheels ahead of someone coming along to fill T’Challa’s shoes, Wakanda Forever does stand out for its depictions of grief.
If this Richard III has a guiding concept, it’s in the dismantling and displacement of Shakespeare’s treatment of disability.
Every serious narrative beat in the film is ultimately undercut by pro-forma storytelling, or by faux-improvised humor.
In season nine, The Walking Dead concerns itself with the nitty-gritty of ensuring an egalitarian system of government.
Throughout Avengeners: Infinity War, rapidity (of dialogue and drama) is mistaken for actual rhythm.
There’s a narrative lopsidedness to Black Panther that sharply undercuts Killmonger’s emotional journey.
The tension between verisimilitude and economy of storytelling dictates everything in All Eyez on Me.
The episode is at its most artful when sound accentuates the way the storylines have been braided together.
A lot happens in “Say Yes,” almost all of it compelling.
The main strength of the episode, like that of The Walking Dead as a whole, is its visuals.
The sly head-fake that opens The Walking Dead’s latest episode throws us effectively off balance.
The midseason finale of The Walking Dead’s was as bleak as ever, but it closed on a major note of hope.
The episode provides more examples of the authoritarian fascism that gives this season an urgent sense of relevancy.
It looks like a new generation of leaders is about to emerge, and some of them are going to be women.
The latest episode of The Walking Dead approaches war and other forms of carnage from a new direction.
Every quick cut of a peaceful and happy time is a sliver of a lost past—or vision of a future that can now never happen.
The episode is notable for images that are lucidly expressive of people’s sensory apprehension of their world.
By the end of the episode, it feels as if only Rick’s motley group of survivors has moved closer to a better tomorrow.
The episode is by and large a necessary, if not exactly radical, pressing of the reset button.
It’s almost jarring to now see it follow so closely in the comic book’s narrative footsteps.