It pulses with relevancy in a time when debates over authoritarianism, protests, and the necessity of radicalism are convulsing America.
It’s the way the film’s humor specifically subverts its genre’s expected emotional valences that makes it so effective.
Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here is rather minimalist, offering slivers of story and characterization.
You Were Never Really Here is possibly the most thrillingly unclassifiable film to play at this year’s Cannes.
The series ultimately becomes nothing much more than a paean to the myth of the wild, ingenious badass chef.
Throughout After, the filmmakers crank the trials of the film’s Valentino family up to 11, sans irony or subversion.
An enormously overheated yet oddly affecting movie gets an appropriately earnest DVD treatment.
Derek Cianfrance’s shoots through foreground material that’s so far out of focus it barely registers as objects.
Suzan-Lori Parks’s blackly comic Southern gothic is sprinkled with poetic assertions on postwar distress and home-life abuses.
The writers have acknowledged our new understanding of Patty as an enigma in order to tease us with what seems to be a process of humanization.
The Wire has never reduced its stories to a soundbite and this season is no different.
Carver is one several cops and ex-cops taking an extracurricular interest in individual kids on the street.
The quartet of eighth-grade boys at the center of The Wire have their own way of dealing with bad police.
Carcetti is keen to meddle, but knows what to leave be.
Those who grasp the personal consequences of the election play the angles with greater care.
Allying with rivals to thwart a third party is the cold calculus of the city’s politicians as well.
Like Michael, Detective Lester Freamon bumps up against the larger forces of an organization.
The slippery slope of civilization is already in place on The Wire and Simon is just out to document how each and every person survives.
Varied as the street characters are, their African-American counterparts in the police department are just as individualized.
The best crime show out there, deserving of any and all hype.