The family drama consistently pulls focus from the satire of America’s cultural caste system.
Arrow’s 4K does right by this cyberthriller’s small but hardcore fanbase.
Balancing humanist optimism with a profoundly downcast view of our collective destiny, the film is inextricably of its moment.
Replicas’s slippery grasp of just how much of its main character’s research is scientifically possible defines much of the narrative.
Peppermint, Pierre Morel’s first feature film set in the United States, is brainless propaganda for the MAGA market.
The sledgehammer preachiness of Mark Pellington’s Nostalgia almost scans as a failed hipster joke.
No one in Zach Braff’s Going in Style seems to really know what the hell they’re doing or why.
Its depiction of friendship seldom pushes past insights predicated on a fundamental tension between characters.
Michael Mann’s camera elegantly collapses the spaces between bodies and objects without sacrificing spatial coherence.
With its optimistic ending, the film muddies its previous statements regarding the danger of unthinkingly hanging on to totems of the past.
The pieces brought into play here, of course, are enormously seductive, and it’s not hard to see why so many have been taken in by the film’s wide-eyed charm.
Go back to the first episode of Luck and you’ll see how much is made of a little goat (known for his giant testicles) that hangs out in Turo’s barn.
Sopranos director Allen Coulter gives us a taste of what the darker Luck many of us had been wishing for might have been like.
As in creator David Milch’s previous HBO shows, one of Luck’s central themes concerns the building of a community.
There’s no getting around the fact that this week’s episode of Luck was overstuffed with exposition.
After the emotional high points reached in last week’s installment of Luck, it’s only natural that this week’s episode feels a bit like a come-down.
Milch-speak, as it’s referred to, is made more impenetrable in Luck than it is in his period-accurate Deadwood.
These horses aren’t just lucky talismans; they also possess a purity of spirit that rehabilitates many of the show’s jaded characters.
In Luck, the majestic thoroughbreds shine as they stand backlit by the sun.
Luck is a very dense, very slow, stealthily soulful series.