Criterion resurrects the film with a luminous restoration, pairing it with a helpful handful of extras on its production and legacy.
Coco receives an expectedly resplendent home-video treatment.
The film brings Pixar’s emotional directness to a festive, reverent, and wide-ranging pastiche of Mexican culture.
Blade Runner 2049 is so terrified of disreputability that it renders itself dead from the waist down.
LisaGay Hamilton and Yolonda Ross persuasively embody modern urban feminine strength, but they’re eventually stranded in a recycled road movie.
Viewer/character solidarity only holds up for so long, and the film falls hard into twisty, nonsense territory, skipping over its stronger themes in the process.
A brick of a set clearly trying to out-super-duper all previous models. A little overkill? Why resist?
Filly Brown plays out like a caricature of every stereotypical Sundance drama about plucky young heroines who overcome great adversity.
Each season of Dexter has started slow before building momentum, and this season is no exception.
The film marginally succeeds at perverting superhero stereotypes, and now it receives an expectedly excellent transfer from Sony.
A good litmus test for how well you can tolerate the pretension of I’m Still Here is its final scene.
The series finale is about as audacious and ambitious a piece of television as I’ve ever seen.
If I have one concern about the finale next week, it’s that the show will not be able to find an ultimate meaning for the character of Baltar.
To a real degree, I’m willing to give the show a lot of slack because it’s a story still in search of an ending.
I don’t think it’s coincidence that this was the episode to reintroduce the concept of Cylon projection.
I’ve speculated before that the show’s writers are interested in their mythology, but probably not as interested as their fans are.
Genre fiction requires the infodump.
Battlestar has always had a weakness for Big! Shocking! Moments! that turn out to just be dreams.
The episode is like a primer as to why we came to love all of these characters in the first place.
The ensemble of players, above everything else, is what makes Battlestar Galactica come to life.