Time and again, Crisis shortchanges the human elements of its plot lines.
Criterion’s Blu-ray release of Mitchell’s film boasts a solid transfer and a treasure trove of wonderfully diverse extras.
The episode tightens the vise around the characters as if to test their instincts.
The situation is now so grave one doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
The show understands that in the wrong hands, belief, whether ideological or supernatural, may be no more than a kissing cousin to the violence it justifies.
It prepares the characters to reel in the big fish they’ve been tracking lately, yet never quite assuages the niggling feeling that these efforts will become a tangled mess.
With its optimistic ending, the film muddies its previous statements regarding the danger of unthinkingly hanging on to totems of the past.
Lbs. is predictable, repetitive, and counts on indie-movie music to move the story along.