Here We Are is one last invitation to let Sondheim’s music guide us through the woods.
Not only does Infinite Storm lack for a complete vision, it’s all too comfortable in settling for mawkishness.
Fortunately for the film, Carlo Mirabella-Davis continually springs scenes that either transcend or justify his preaching.
The film is an aimless, albeit sometimes funny, chronicle of absurd behavior and government ineptitude.
Its inquisitiveness gives all the melodramatic incidents more of a charge and a purpose for keeping our attention.
Tamara Jenkins never musters the effort to expand the scope of her narrative, opting to make a film strikingly similar to The Savages.
The film is a rallying cry against a suffocating patriarchy that rapes its servants and disenfranchises its daughters.
There’s no reprieve from the dour tone of Carlos and Jason Sanchez’s film.
The vacillating nature of Melissa Leo’s Mother Reverend is characteristic of Margaret Betts’s Novitiate as a whole.
Freak Show helps to confirm an unofficial rule about the series at large: The more a season actively utilizes its chosen setting, the better it is.
“Magical Thinking” finds the series resorting to its usual bag of boring, hyperbolically over-plotted tricks.
“Orphans” finds Freak Show taking a surprisingly earnest detour from its usual preachy, ultra-violently “relevant” shenanigans.
You may be inclined to wonder throughout the typically atypical murder sequences and arbitrary character epiphanies how this series is written.
The episode is intended to remind audiences who Freak Show’s denizens precisely are before a break for the Thanksgiving holiday.
“Bullseye” sports a tempo that’s decidedly slow, obsessive, and damn near ponderous for Freak Show.
With the series belaboring the freaks’ theoretically unexpected likability at every possible turn, it’s the villains who stand to walk away with Freak Show.
It’s fair to say that Coven has evolved in a fashion opposite to that of the prior Asylum.
“The Sacred Taking” finds the show’s variables nearly, but not quite, cohering into a grand narrative arc.
Straight males may have found themselves in the position of actively envying two dead men while watching this week’s episode.
In this week’s episode of Coven, an elegantly interlocking series of plot turns suggests a major character’s undoing.