Throughout, the film toggles between comedy, light surreality, and philosophical inquiry.
Blade Runner 2049 is so terrified of disreputability that it renders itself dead from the waist down.
The season finale of The Walking Dead functioned mainly as a prolonged teaser for the battle to come.
The episode snaps the show back to its default position with much talk-as-lecture and oppressive foreshadowing.
The main strength of the episode, like that of The Walking Dead as a whole, is its visuals.
The midseason finale of The Walking Dead’s was as bleak as ever, but it closed on a major note of hope.
The latest episode of The Walking Dead leaves questions unanswered in a presumably intentional way.
The season finale of The Walking Dead builds toward its conclusion with self-consciously melodramatic flair.
The episode is notable for images that are lucidly expressive of people’s sensory apprehension of their world.
The episode primarily focuses on two separate runs for supply—storylines that exist to create more forks in the narrative road toward the mysterious Negan.
The episode plays out during its first half as an elegantly staged prelude to an invasion.
In one of the unlikeliest moves of the show’s run, “Start to Finish” completely pushes pathos to the sidelines.
“Heads Up” culminates with no less than three cliffhangers.
The episode abounds in articulations of the choices people make in this world to stay alive and to stay sane.
One of the first things we see in the astonishing and consistently thrilling finale of the show’s fifth season is a rabbit’s foot.
It too often lingers on Detroit’s colorless evil more than its spirited righteousness, resulting in an overwhelmingly bleak narrative.
Not much in the way of packaging or extras. But, then, this is the kind of disc you keep laying around the living room like a coaster.
Who cares about subpar computer-generated work when Guy Pearce is a one-man cartoon badass spectacle all to himself?
Colombiana is a self-righteous misstep from the usually reliable Luc Besson action-film factory.
Watching Hung is what I imagine zero-G sex would be like.