The series works best when it focuses on intimate, human moments rather than on broad social critiques.
Stacy Title’s The Bye Bye Man ends up succeeding most deftly as an advertisement for on-campus housing.
The film consistently settles for the cheapest shock devices and the most shopworn totems of our current neo-gothic moment in the genre.
Jerome Sable’s debut feature couldn’t be further from De Palma’s delirious cinematic essays on vision and genre.
Cronenberg’s flawed but promising feature debut gets an almost immaculate Blu-ray transfer, as well as some solid supplements.
The film is a damning reminder that no amount of adequate CG showmanship can stand in for the basic tenets of good filmmaking.
A one-joke movie—a good joke, yes, but Brandon Cronenberg’s agenda clouds the clarity that’s needed to fully deliver the punchline.
The season finales of Big Love often have a bit of an out-of-control feel to them.
He’s arguably the most important character in Big Love, even if we never directly see Him, even if we never are sure how He feels about the Henricksons.
Few shows on TV have as many scenes that feel like they should be dream sequences but actually turn out to be reality as Big Love does.
The second season finale of Big Love tries to do so many things at once that it periodically flies off the rails
On the surface, everything is pristine and perfect.
Big Love is obsessed (sometimes too obsessed) with the notion that our public faces conflict with the faces we wear in in private.
The best scene in the episode is the one when Bill takes his wives to the casino to see exactly what he wants to purchase.
The looks of horror in Bill and Barb’s eyes come from very different places.
The fourth episode of Big Love’s second season, “Rock and a Hard Place,” was kind of clumsy in a lot of ways.
The central question facing most members of fundamentalist religious groups or sects is how deeply they want to engage with the world.
The idea of living in two worlds is reflected in the storylines centered on the two teens in the Henrickson household.
Sleepover will do for tween girls what Max Keeble’s Big Move did for prepubescent boys: get them beat up at school.