Sharp Stick shows that Lena Dunham’s preference for solipsistic protagonists with boundary issues has its limitations.
The film allows the scion of one of Hollywood’s most notable families to interrogate her relationship with celebrity in self-aware fashion.
The film is Quentin Tarantino’s magnum opus, a sweeping statement on an entire generation of American popular culture.
Camping focuses primarily on why things happen rather than merely striving toward hijinks.
Laurie Simmons isn’t so much creating art as a means to explore cinema’s effect on identity as she is conducting an act of indulgence.
There’s plenty of room here to send-up Trump’s distraction politics, but Cult isn’t landing the punch.
The film buzzes with hand-drawn creativity that’s precious in both the pop-cultural and material senses.
The last few minutes of the episode are suffused with the potent mixture of love and bemusement.
The episode deals with several kinds of love: romantic, platonic, and that sparkly feeling somewhere in between.
The show’s minor characters leave vivid impressions while surfacing some truth about the major players.
The tectonic shifts in the inner lives of Girls’s main characters sometimes bring them back together.
The episode belongs to Marnie, who breaks the seal on the superficially successful but spiritually unfulfilling life she’s clung to up until now.
The episode focuses on the surprising difficulty of figuring out who and what makes us feel at home.
Like a Jane Austen novel, Girls seems obsessed lately with pairing its main characters up with long-term mates.
This season has constructed situations for the characters that could hold steady after the series ends.
The theme of growing up, in fits and starts, is a through line in “Good Man.”
The season-five premiere of Girls is a microcosm of the series as a whole.
A cynic might view the episode as fan service, but that would discount the faltering pathways that led to the poise these characters display here.
“Daddy Issues” is all about boundaries and how quickly they can dissolve.
Like much of this season of Girl, the episode focuses on the gap between how we see ourselves and how others see us.