The film deals forthrightly with the question of purpose and whether it can be found in a career.
While Onward begins as a story of bereavement, it soon turns to celebrating the payoffs of positive thinking.
Downhill never makes much of an impact as it moves from one mildly amusing cringe-comedy set piece to the next.
It typifies American politics with a brand of acidic cynicism that yields big laughs and increasingly unlikable characters.
We have no doubt that we’ll be miffed by how some of these categories shake out on Sunday night.
It seems to suggest that political life is so all-consuming that no happy, well-adjusted person would ever choose to be a part of it.
Believe it or not, we know exactly what’s going to happen at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.
Baggage Claim, the other(ed) wide release this week, will likely be marginalized because of these “higher profile,” male-driven openers.
Enough can’t be said about how James Gandolfini comes so close to saving Nicole Holofcener’s latest articulation of white suburban anxieties.
TV better than movies? Not really, but at least television will let you see Michael Douglas stroking Matt Damon’s leg hair.
Klay Hall’s Cars spinoff feels second-rate in every sense, from the quality of its animation to its C-list voice cast.
You can’t help but feel pangs of heartache watching the trailer for Enough Said.
It isn’t a disservice to Louis-Dreyfus to say that her Emmy award for the role is in many ways a reflection of the quality of the supporting cast.
Whatever crises occur beyond the scope of the characters’ webcams have only the most oblique impact on their online personas.
It’s perhaps a sign of Veep’s realism that the new HBO comedy feels a lot like a receptacle.
Right off the bat, something feels slightly off about the long-overdue seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.