The limited series is a carnival of horrors weighed down by moralizing, hysteria, and cross-associations.
The film envisions Denzel Washington’s Robert McCall as a hero in absolute concord with the world of his own fiction.
The vacillating nature of Melissa Leo’s Mother Reverend is characteristic of Margaret Betts’s Novitiate as a whole.
For a film that warns against believing in a mirage, Burn Country seems all too comfortable perpetuating one.
It depicts Snowden’s ethical dilemmas in a political vacuum that disregards America’s complex security threats.
Olds’s film is essentially a standard backwoods noir tale given a topical twist.
Like its predecessor, Babak Najafi’s London Has Fallen is content to dumbly relish in the inanity of Mike’s rampage.
The film’s fourth-wall-breaking wags a finger at the perceived facile nature of celebrity-driven mass culture even as it ultimately condescends to audiences.
The Equalizer should build up to a moderately engaging battle of wits, but the script has little interest in wit and no capacity for psychology.
Here, Robin Williams’s frenzied comic demeanor is replaced with equally harried contempt.
Life pours out of Treme and, like all good things, the series ends with equal parts rage and love in its bombastic heart.
An egregious entry into the pantheon of films about white Americans traveling to exotic lands in search of identity and soul-searching adventure.
A buzzworthy turn overshadowing a movie’s failings is a trend this Oscar season.
Possibly year’s most immaculate-looking drivel, a prismatically shot whodunit abundant in red herrings, but lacking in moral contemplation.
What kind of Hamish Linklater fan you are likely depends on what kind of entertainment you take in the most.
Absent of any sense of self-awareness, Oblivion seems only self-serious, a ponderous mess both misguided and unaware.
The film spends its first act establishing a flimsy emotional groundwork before gleefully taking a sledgehammer to it just seconds into act two.
I have always liked Tony Kushner, and not just the concept of Tony Kushner the public writer.
Though it’s hampered by some formulaic touches, Flight is one unique, audacious studio movie.
In its third season, Treme has become so adept at blending character-based drama with its overarching themes.