The series is a thoughtful meditation on the simultaneously distortive and revelatory nature of the human memory.
Criterion gives one of the most compulsively rewatchable movies of the last generation its most fully satisfying home-video edition to date.
Life Itself revels in the shameless emotional manipulation stemming from the ham-fisted tendencies of its own maker.
The film reinforces the idea that it’s the job of those with disabilities to inspire the jerks of the word to be nicer.
It’s confounding that writer-director Fernando Trueba fails to probe the film’s political implications.
In the season finale of Homeland, everyone is a pawn in someone else’s power play.
Sadly, Homeland can’t leave well enough alone and soon falls back on narrative shortcuts.
It’s content to be the sort of film parents can throw on an iPad to ensure 90 minutes’ worth of relative peace and quiet away from their antic children.
The episode’s triumph is the way it continues to observe the fallout of large political actions.
Crafting a season around fake news and alternative truth is all for nothing if characters lose sight of what’s real.
The episode eerily and effectively depicts how stories can be orchestrated and flipped on a dime.
The episode plunges head-on into the murkiness of doubt that even the show’s heroes act like villains.
By episode’s end, most of the show’s key characters have re-invested in the things that most matter to them.
The episode hurtles forward without giving its characters a chance to reconsider their positions.
The latest episode of Homeland is clear, measured, and deliberate in its critique of American policies.
The episode demands that its characters question their ends-justifying-the-means ways.
The latest episode of Homeland proves the series is all too comfortable playing the long game.
Homeland’s season-six premiere provides a plausible dissent and voice for those who’ve been silenced.
The season finale of Homeland lingers almost uncomfortably long on the survivors.
Homeland should talk less, and trust that intimate scenes will serve to demonstrate or explain the larger themes.