Till taps into a deeper well of emotions than most biopics.
HBO’s The Gilded Age considers the social currents of the historical moment, alluringly cutting through the delusions of its aristocrats.
The series leaves no police procedural cliché untouched but ultimately transcends its familiarity.
Bart Freundlich alternates somewhat arbitrarily between his various plots, leaving a lot of loose ends in the process.
Satchmo at the Waldorf becomes the story of Louis Armstrong’s life as he probably would have liked it to be told interpersonally
Brian Kulick’s herky-jerky production is never quite sure what to do with the great Dianne Wiest.