The Father approximates the dislocation of its main character’s mind with a frighteningly slippery ease.
The series feels tiresome in its relentless pleading with us to be impressed.
The film’s florid screenplay affords Yorgos Lanthimos ample opportunity to assert his idiosyncratic worldview.
Unlike the red balloon that Pooh follows through much of the running time, Marc Forster’s film lacks lightness.
An era of the series has ended, but as always, Doctor Who continues moving right along.
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 is a successful standalone adventure which combines elements from two earlier stories.
It shows that people’s misfortunes need not preclude them from living virtuous lives founded on basic human decency.
Its litany of human freaks and animal monstrosities are meant to distract from the superficiality of its psychological and intellectual concerns.
The episode’s found-footage conceit presents several unusual challenges for both writer Mark Gatiss and first-time director Justin Molotnikov.
Tom Riley’s portrayal of Robin dances dangerously close to pantomime at times, particularly in the first half.
The unifying element of “The Laws of God and Men” may be the profound silence of the show’s architecture.
With “The Crimson Horror,” the new series of Doctor Who notches its 100th episode.
The second season of Sherlock arrives on Blu-ray from BBC in a suitably handsome package with a strong visual/audio transfer.
It makes clear the true nature of the relationship between the Doctor and the woman who has variously infuriated, intrigued, and attracted him for the last several years.
After the dizzyingly complex plotting and major revelations of the past few episodes, “Night Terrors” is a real change of pace.
It’s impressive that Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have chosen such a gimmick-free approach to their series.
It’d be all too easy to write off “The Lazarus Experiment” as Season Three’s transitional episode.
“The Idiot’s Lantern” is the halfway point of the second season of Doctor Who, and as such there’s a transitional feel to the proceedings.