Mike Flanagan reimagines Poe’s oeuvre as a nimble, tonally capacious collection of fables.
This is one of the rare American films to give dramatic heft to the strategic challenges and mortal stakes of labor organizing.
This is a cerebral, 25-year-old film that follows the blueprint for today’s endless glut of superhero movies.
With this gorgeous and obsessive four-disc set, Donnie Darko fanatics may have found their ultimate bible, at last.
Strange as it may sound, the absence of melodrama is the film’s greatest strength.
As befitting a third sequel that plays by the “rules” of remakes, Scream 4 proves doubly redundant and uninspired.
Margin Call loves speechifying, but the film is far more assured when lingering in the silence of its morally compromised characters.
The series finale is about as audacious and ambitious a piece of television as I’ve ever seen.
If I have one concern about the finale next week, it’s that the show will not be able to find an ultimate meaning for the character of Baltar.
To a real degree, I’m willing to give the show a lot of slack because it’s a story still in search of an ending.
I don’t think it’s coincidence that this was the episode to reintroduce the concept of Cylon projection.
Genre fiction requires the infodump.
Battlestar has always had a weakness for Big! Shocking! Moments! that turn out to just be dreams.
The episode is like a primer as to why we came to love all of these characters in the first place.
The ensemble of players, above everything else, is what makes Battlestar Galactica come to life.
The episode is probably going to piss off a lot of fans, especially coming this late in the show’s run.
Battlestar Galactica gets a reputation for being a dark show, and some of that is well-deserved.
The show has always given a sense that it’s willing to dispense with vital parts of its premise for an episode or two.
The tenuous human/Cylon alliance, in this moment, makes sense.
The episode zip along with verve, finding little time for the character moments the last few episodes have been filled with.