The series seems content to recreate the events of the case rather than explore them in any deeper psychological or thematic fashion.
The details in The Dropout are strikingly unembellished, but it’s the perspective-shifting storytelling that brims with imagination.
Eugene O’Neill’s play isn’t about all of us, as much as this production might lean into the allure of universality.
The film sanctimoniously suggests that ignorance or distrust of the news is nothing new, but rather the bedrock of America’s formation.
Fortunately for the film, Carlo Mirabella-Davis continually springs scenes that either transcend or justify his preaching.
The series feels like a vehicle built merely to convey the information dug up by its progenitors.
It often suggests the film that American Beauty might have been if the latter had been pruned of its smug hysteria.
Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories is a cunning and frequently hilarious film about exhuming the past and finding no diamond in the rough.
The film feels lived-in despite its glaringly mannered dialogue and charmingly eccentric characterizations.
In the season finale of Homeland, everyone is a pawn in someone else’s power play.
Sadly, Homeland can’t leave well enough alone and soon falls back on narrative shortcuts.
The episode’s triumph is the way it continues to observe the fallout of large political actions.
Crafting a season around fake news and alternative truth is all for nothing if characters lose sight of what’s real.
The episode eerily and effectively depicts how stories can be orchestrated and flipped on a dime.
By episode’s end, most of the show’s key characters have re-invested in the things that most matter to them.
The episode hurtles forward without giving its characters a chance to reconsider their positions.
The latest episode of Homeland is clear, measured, and deliberate in its critique of American policies.
The episode demands that its characters question their ends-justifying-the-means ways.
The latest episode of Homeland proves the series is all too comfortable playing the long game.
Homeland’s season-six premiere provides a plausible dissent and voice for those who’ve been silenced.