The Power of the Dog receives a 4K UHD release that matches its subtle but sumptuous beauty.
The film looks at times like a stiff-jawed period piece, but it ripples underneath with a prickly modern sensibility.
The film is one that might have been dreamed up by one of the cynical douche bros from the Hangover during a blacked-out stupor.
There’s a little Charlie Chaplin in the Joker’s steps early on, before madness grips him in ways that would probably make Pennywise shudder.
The episode manages to get back to the inspired lunacy of the season’s first few installments.
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There’s plenty of room here to send-up Trump’s distraction politics, but Cult isn’t landing the punch.
The too-dark lensing is an ideal match for Allen’s sequences of marital and amorous discord.
“Blood Bath” is another of American Horror Story: Freak Show’s housecleaning episodes.
The episode is intended to remind audiences who Freak Show’s denizens precisely are before a break for the Thanksgiving holiday.
“Bullseye” sports a tempo that’s decidedly slow, obsessive, and damn near ponderous for Freak Show.
With the series belaboring the freaks’ theoretically unexpected likability at every possible turn, it’s the villains who stand to walk away with Freak Show.
It allows us to leisurely soak in the considerable atmospherics of Elsa’s financially imperiled Cabinet of Curiosities.
“The Seven Wonders” finds Coven largely tending, predictably for the most part, to a final bit of plot bookkeeping.
The penultimate episode of Coven finds the series still desperately scrambling to introduce busy conceits.
It’s fair to say that Coven has evolved in a fashion opposite to that of the prior Asylum.
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It behaves as the TV equivalent of what Quentin Tarantino once deemed a “hang out movie.”
“The Sacred Taking” finds the show’s variables nearly, but not quite, cohering into a grand narrative arc.
In this week’s episode of Coven, an elegantly interlocking series of plot turns suggests a major character’s undoing.
Creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk suffer few indulgences of sentimentality.
This week’s episode of Coven is ideally timed to remind us that Halloween was once a dangerous pagan event.