The film is held together by the intensity of its haunted-looking cast and the dour atmosphere.
The film’s depiction of the fear and uncertainty of motherhood gives in to monotony.
Eternals makes a brooding impression on 4K UHD, but don’t expect the extras to make a case for it as some misunderstood triumph.
At once bloated and rushed, Eternals suffers from frequent lurches in tempo that dispel its occasional moments of tranquil thoughtfulness.
There’s no limit here to the narrative conveniences that exist only to conclude the series’s eight-season arc.
As David Benioff and D.B. Weiss show with this masterful rebuttal of an episode, it’s never too late to choose a different narrative.
There’s no shortage of empty gestures throughout the latest episode of the series.
The episode gives the audience exactly what it expects, and absolutely nothing else.
The episode is, above all else, a resolute detailing of the final calm before a spectacular storm and what it means to be human.
The episode has the good sense to respect our familiarity with these characters, and as such it doesn’t beat around the bush.
The film is noteworthy for its rumination on the subtle costs of its characters’ newfound prosperity.
Gunpowder locates a human drama at the heart of an event codified in history books as a conflict between monoliths.
Violence is teased, but tantalizingly withheld, throughout the season-seven finale of Game of Thrones.
The episode offers up a battle between CGI dragons and CGI zombies, to pulpy effect but no moral consequence.
The episode that dials back from the epic confrontations that have filled out the majority of this season.
In war and through violence, Game of Thrones is as clear and compelling as it gets.
Three episodes into this truncated seventh season and Game of Thrones is spiraling toward a preordained place.
The episode manages to set up future conflicts without interrupting its rapid pace.
Even after six seasons, Game of Thrones still doesn’t know what’s most important to its own story.
Its bid for social correctness does nothing to make the juvenile and numbing fixation on brutality more palatable.