The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starts strong but its main character only grows thinner as the story progresses.
Julia Hart drains the crime film genre of its macho bluster without replacing it with anything.
Ava DuVernay’s series is a handsomely mounted dramatization, but it often veers into the trite, obvious, and maudlin.
Netflix will release the series on May 31.
Fleischner paints a vivid portrait of New York life, with its dreamers and schemers and working-class people just trying to pay the bills.
In David Adjmi’s satirical Marie Antoinette, the titular royal doesn’t start using her head until she’s in danger of losing it.
Katori Hall ’s work is remarkable for her keen ear for wisecracks and irreverent, self-deprecating humor.
The film is not a tapestry so much as it is an inflammation of white culpability.