The festival survived the trauma of lockdown to demonstrate impressive potential this year.
There’s a lack of concreteness about the story and characters that render its reiteration of Christmas lessons utterly toothless.
There’s no limit here to the narrative conveniences that exist only to conclude the series’s eight-season arc.
As David Benioff and D.B. Weiss show with this masterful rebuttal of an episode, it’s never too late to choose a different narrative.
There’s no shortage of empty gestures throughout the latest episode of the series.
The episode gives the audience exactly what it expects, and absolutely nothing else.
The episode is, above all else, a resolute detailing of the final calm before a spectacular storm and what it means to be human.
The episode has the good sense to respect our familiarity with these characters, and as such it doesn’t beat around the bush.
This is another quarter-billion-dollar installment in the world’s longest and most expensive screensaver.
Violence is teased, but tantalizingly withheld, throughout the season-seven finale of Game of Thrones.
The episode offers up a battle between CGI dragons and CGI zombies, to pulpy effect but no moral consequence.
The episode that dials back from the epic confrontations that have filled out the majority of this season.
In war and through violence, Game of Thrones is as clear and compelling as it gets.
Three episodes into this truncated seventh season and Game of Thrones is spiraling toward a preordained place.
The episode manages to set up future conflicts without interrupting its rapid pace.
Even after six seasons, Game of Thrones still doesn’t know what’s most important to its own story.
In none of its manifestations is grief as tidy and meticulously arranged as in Eric D. Howell’s film.
Death is momentarily thrilling, but the struggles of those who live on are what sustain the series.
It punks its impressionable audience into believing a lie, then punishes them for their foolishness.
The latest episode of Game of Thrones takes a more subdued step back to reset the table for the next big event.