The film heightens the clash between different artists’ egos, and between their conflicting visions of meaningful work, to absurd heights.
Strickland’s film is another fetish object that rues the perils of fetishism.
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 film feels like a disservice to Mark Hogancamp’s story, in no small part because no one in the film feels human, even outside doll form.
The film shifts from a coherent vision of generational terror into a grab bag of lazily compiled genre tropes.
The Last Jedi is largely content to further the themes and narrative strategies of J.J. Abrams’s predecessor.
Violence is teased, but tantalizingly withheld, throughout the season-seven finale of Game of Thrones.
In war and through violence, Game of Thrones is as clear and compelling as it gets.
The depressing truth to the episode’s title may be that no one can get what they want without violence.
The show is no longer holding anything back in story or tone, and it’s making this fantasy world feel all too real.
The latest episode of Game of Thrones finally starts uniting the season’s threads, often through blood.
The episode sees the writers ruthlessly beginning to sew up loose (or underdeveloped) plots.
It has all the charm of the best entries in the Star Wars series, and it arrives on a pristine Blu-ray primed to delight the next generation of fans.
The film exists less as a meaningful extension of its world than as a fan-service deployment device.
It’s long been a given on Game of Thrones that “All men must die.” The question, then, is less a matter of whether they will, but how they will.
Despite being home to the Faceless, the House of Black and White is filled with a variety of visages: statues to the various gods of Westeros.
Once upon a time, two girls walk through a forest, muddying up their fancy clothes in search of a fortune-telling witch.
There’s plenty of death in the fifth season of Game of Thrones, and those deaths are understood as cautionary symbols of power.