The Wire creator’s We Own This City serves as another closely observed analysis of institutional rot.
The show’s third and final season struggles to consistently build gripping stories for its vivid characters to inhabit.
Change looms over The Deuce, as the series focuses on the far-reaching effects of urban transformation.
Its scattershot structure gets at the truth of pop culture as an ineffable chimera that defines much of the world.
MacLaren elaborates on her decision to rhyme a character’s slow walk down a corridor with a scene from the show’s first episode.
Unwitting transformation is on display throughout the season finale of The Deuce.
The pimps are the first to face eradication by the proliferation of porn and brothels.
The episode’s most pivotal scene is a court ruling to drop charges against a group of pornographers.
The episode will likely be unbowed by one pimp’s knife, whenever he finally spies them on the horizon.
The first episode of The Deuce introduces outsiders striving for success in their own illicit framework.
The show is torn between Paul Haggis’s love of melodrama and David Simon’s fascination with the social governance.
The film presents a deep investigation into the U.S. drug war with research as exhaustive as the list of negatives to describe the conflict.
The film employs a flashy text-and-graphics aesthetic that immediately brings to mind the satirical undercurrent of a Grand Theft Auto video game.
Film archivist Rick Prelinger puts a new spin on the word “interactive” with No More Road Trips?
There’s no denying the ways in which Eugene Jarecki’s film effectively weds rhetorical outrage to well-researched fact.
Sister is another meditation on the viewpoint of children in an alienating adult world.
HBO gives the superb second season of David Simon and Eric Overmyer’s post-Katrina drama an excellent transfer.
Treme’s deeply humane treatment of a communal tragedy, not a national one, quite simply blows the doors off the place.
Simon spoke with Slant about the challenges and rewards of telling stories from the inside out.
The problem with Gomorrah isn’t that it feels incomplete or underdeveloped.