The quasi-Victorian urban fantasy continues to prioritize uncomplicated politicking over cohesive storytelling.
Come Away can’t seem to decide whether it’s fantasy or allegory and whether its characters are fan fiction or flesh and blood.
The series is a genre patchwork whose individual elements fail to coalesce into a coherent whole.
Alex Garland’s film gets momentum from the deeper it pushes into the uncertainties of ecology and the self.
Christopher Nolan’s goal seems to be to take the humor and wildness out of imagination, to see invention in rigidly practical and scientific terms.
Warner Home Vidoe does good by Cloud Atlas’s technical skill.
Cloud Atlas is a rare film that’s greater than the sum of its often innocuous parts.
Opening a new season with the Daleks has always been a temptation for the producers of Doctor Who.
The film is certainly a far preferable dramatic treatment of the Rwandan genocide than Hotel Rwanda.