Straining to be a YA spin on Trouble Every Day, Bones and All barely eclipses Twilight.
The series is the streaming equivalent of watching your laptop run through a security update to remove Russian malware.
The film loses its satiric edge as it begins to melodramatically detail how Maurice Flitcroft inherited the mantle of folk hero.
The Outfit is a dapper, twist-filled crime story that relies more on dialogue than gunplay to move the action.
Like Vice before it, the film too often uses satire as a tool of castigation rather than as a means of truly taking on the status quo.
It pulses with relevancy in a time when debates over authoritarianism, protests, and the necessity of radicalism are convulsing America.
Ciro Guerra never quite finds an imagistic equivalent to the novel’s subtly hallucinogenic atmosphere.
This buckaroo of a disc does not blow it on the image and sound front at least.
If it turned out to be Spielberg’s final film, it would make for a fitting final curtain call for his brand of escapism.
The metronomic precision of director Christopher Nolan’s cinema is foregrounded in Dunkirk.
Full of such quietly inventive visual magic, it’s perfectly content to simply revel in the stuff dreams are made of.
You have to ask which storyline does an evenly matched Oscar contest best serve? That of the underdog, obviously.
The stage is an icy expanse and the narrative and the lives of its characters are just as flat as this Midwestern freeze.
A grippingly expressive espionage yarn, another exemplary entry in Spielberg’s late-career period, receives a top-tier, must-buy transfer.
Only rarely does Steven Spielberg observe how queasily at odds our patriotism is with our humanity.
We have no doubt that we’ll be miffed by how some of these categories shake out on Sunday night.
The lack of visual ingenuity, reflexivity, or awareness of genre tropes diminishes the pleasures of the action’s involving kineticism.
The drama over dinner comes in small analgesic portions, and the secrets feel canned and the dialogue is too pretty to be believable.
The Other Boleyn Girl races through the events at the Tudor court like a triple-time miniseries.
It’s fascinating because, according to the director, we are a culture that strives on myth.