The series leaves no police procedural cliché untouched but ultimately transcends its familiarity.
The film is an all-too-fitting whimper of a conclusion to a franchise that never remotely fulfilled its potential.
Bart Layton’s American Animals is a heist film at heart, albeit one that hews closely to the historical record.
Writer-director Bryan Buckley’s film is ultimately more interested in the journalist than his story.
The sight of a murderous, misogynistic troll brought down by the women he abused offers unabashed pleasure.
The episode manages to get back to the inspired lunacy of the season’s first few installments.
The episode is at its most effective when charting the gut-wrenching effect of Kai’s madness.
The latest Cult understands how Kai Anderson’s power is made possible by concentric circles of enablement.
There’s plenty of room here to send-up Trump’s distraction politics, but Cult isn’t landing the punch.
Almost everything in the latest episode of American Horror Story plays a bit too much like a thesis presentation.
As the series elaborates on all the things that brought Ally to madness, she’s been placed on the backburner.
The latest Cult manages to imbue its eventual villains with a level of empathy that’s new to American Horror Story.
The episode all too happily reminds us that strong emotions make people do crazy, often nonsensical things.
For better and worse, the horror on American Horror Story: Cult is all text and no subtext.
The premiere episode’s random acts of violence don’t confront fear so much as exploit it.
The issue with X-Men: Apocalypse is that Bryan Singer suggests so many possible directions to go in and still chooses the least interesting one.
Liza Johnson’s film is generally taken with comfy gags that celebrate these men’s ownership of pop culture.
Sans a single compositional sleight of hand, it merely delighting in turning lights on and off and watching Zoe appear in random places.
The episode ends American Horror Story: Freak Show on an unsurprisingly dour and haphazard note.
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.