The show’s second season may be watchable, but it’s so much louder about saying so much less.
The series is gory and dour with a bone-deep cynicism, but it’s also optimistic in its own small way.
Marielle Heller takes a script that many filmmakers would turn into cringe-inducing treacle and interrogates the sentimental trappings.
While the film’s perception of the politics of the jungle is often profound, the same cannot be said of its take on the human world.
No American film since Zodiac has exhibited such a love for the way information travels than The Post.
Scene after scene transpires as a discussion about togetherness—as eternal ideal and currency.
The Americans is the rolling stone that gathers no moss.
Maybe the ultimate project of The Americans is to recognize its characters’ collective disillusionment.
Throughout its runtime, the episode remarkably threads together the impressions of shared torment.
The episode feels less like a continuation of this season’s efforts up to this point than a tangent.
Another week, another episode of The Americans that’s notable for its pervasive lack of hurry.
The producers of The Americans are more than aware that they’re playing a very, very long game with their audience.
The latest episode of The Americans is practically a treatise on the psychodynamic theory of guilt.
The episode thrillingly and daringly comes close to completely pressing down on the reset button.
The episode is unique in the canon of the series for the sterling self-reflexivity of its sense of humor.
The attention to behavioral detail that goes into any given episode of The Americans is unlike that of any other show.
The latest episode of The Americans thrillingly plants the seeds of a whirlwind of emotional reckonings.
“Amber Waves” is an immediate reminder that The Americans is an edifice brilliantly constructed of contrasts.
Christian Carion’s film shamelessly wrings excitement from the recreation of violent ideological conflict.
The series proves once again that action need not be explosive to be effective.