The series is gory and dour with a bone-deep cynicism, but it’s also optimistic in its own small way.
In every scene, the film’s cutting is dictated by the turbulent pace of the characters’ inner lives.
Lasse Hallström’s gooey film exists only to offer comforting reassurances about dogs’ natural servility.
The chickens of gilded-era capitalism come to roost in as many configurations as are possible.
This episode sees its characters ground up especially in the gears of their own patriarchal systems.
The Knick’s second season has seen Soderbergh turn his camera on different strains of pedagogy afforded by the turn-of-the-century milieu.
Steven Soderbergh’s camera seamlessly stitches the hospital’s constituent parts together in what appears to be real time.
“Wonderful Surprises” is so over-stacked as to make each scene work purely as exposition.
A clear effort is being made by Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, and Steven Soderbergh to make the new season as dense as possible.
The Knick is such a well-constructed series that the characters’ dialogue can’t help but reveal one prejudice thrown at the expense of another
It’s hard to avoid feeling like the same issues of dramatic proportion and temporal flow that dogged the first season remain.
The Knick provides a wealth of nuanced history of early 20th-century medicine and social mores.
One of the most exciting new shows on television, and HBO’s Blu-ray captures its exceptional visual and audio design with near-perfection.
As immersive as it is overstuffed, The Knick’s season finale opens on the anxious face of the hospital’s secretly pregnant benefactor.
Director Steven Soderbergh’s gift for unfussily blocking The Knick’s scenes is made awesomely apparent in the opening.
“Get the Rope” may mark the first time Soderbergh’s dazzling, inventive shooting style just can’t support the dramaturgy.
The drama over dinner comes in small analgesic portions, and the secrets feel canned and the dialogue is too pretty to be believable.
Director Steven Soderbergh’s handling of the meningitis case is both technically and dramatically virtuoso.
The Knickerbocker Hospital’s putative mission to help New York City’s neediest gets its most interesting stress test yet in “They Capture the Heat.”
The lurking anti-subtlety of The Knick’s pilot picks right back up in “Mr. Paris Shoes.”