The series is a thoughtful meditation on the simultaneously distortive and revelatory nature of the human memory.
The series displays some of the inevitable wear of a concept that has already gotten more mileage than anticipated.
It’s to Lawrence and Henry’s credit that what lingers is their characters’ uncertainty.
As the series unfolds, it homes in on the theme of empathy and skillfully connects its two seemingly disparate narrative threads.
HBO’s The Gilded Age considers the social currents of the historical moment, alluringly cutting through the delusions of its aristocrats.
The Unforgivable is devoid of all textures and emotions that don’t readily affirm the film’s rigid worldview of redemption.
Whatever new technology facilitated its genesis, the film is just another assembly-line reproduction.
The film goes down easy because it saves the self-improvement clichés for the homestretch.
The main character is too often pushed to the sidelines so that the filmmakers can indulge tired family-drama tropes.
Terrence Malick’s Song to Song is about floating along on currents of uncertain desire and excitement.
James Schamus’s screenplay is rich with culturally specific details that deepen these forking moral predicaments.
Writer-director Steven Caple Jr.’s social-realist tendencies run up against some unconvincing genre elements.
The Knick’s second season has seen Soderbergh turn his camera on different strains of pedagogy afforded by the turn-of-the-century milieu.
Tolerance in the film doesn’t so much suggest a recognizably real epiphany as it does a moving Hallmark card.
It traffics in a sort of vague, half-defined spiritual questing. It also deals in an opposites-attract romantic plotline between a pair of chemistry-less leads.
Julie Taymor is clearly trying hard to gussy up a screenplay that plays more like The Wonder Years without the cultural insight.
We’re a long way from the moral ambiguity that colors the poignant parent-child relations and street violence of Los Olvidados.
Finally, a movie to bring lovers of bad soap opera and aficionados of golden showers and scatting together at last.
North Country turns on itself like some rabid animal with its leg caught in a bear trap.