The series is patient enough to let us understand its central character’s trauma, but it doesn’t make us to wallow in it.
A sickened rage and psychological nuance courses through every meticulously arranged frame of the film.
Unwitting transformation is on display throughout the season finale of The Deuce.
The pimps are the first to face eradication by the proliferation of porn and brothels.
The episode’s most pivotal scene is a court ruling to drop charges against a group of pornographers.
The latest episode of The Deuce is in many ways the most pessimistic hour of the series so far.
The first episode of The Deuce introduces outsiders striving for success in their own illicit framework.
The effect of writer-director Christopher Smith’s film becomes not unlike watching a puzzle solve itself.
A genre mishmash cobbled together from the refuse of disparate visual and narrative modes.
The complicated psychological realities of army personnel require a tougher directorial treatment than the maudlin melodrama presented here.
The Wire has never reduced its stories to a soundbite and this season is no different.
As a film partly about the care of a dementia-addled senior citizen, The Savages naturally invites comparisons to Away From Her—all of them unflattering.
The Wire’s landscape is thick with men almost desperate to reach back and snatch some kid from the vortex.
“Change the course” often means more of the same, only more of it.
Carcetti is keen to meddle, but knows what to leave be.
The dealers know the kids, and the kids know the cops.
Like Michael, Detective Lester Freamon bumps up against the larger forces of an organization.
On The Wire, everyone’s in school.