The film’s aura of sincere, uncomplicated Americana can be intoxicating and hard to resist.
Instead of a raucous celebration, The Flash feels like a muted parade of regrets.
It’s a testament to the immersive performances of its two leads that the series manages to bring its titular iconic figures to life.
What lingers most readily from Amsterdam are the little privileged moments.
Most of the show’s best moments come when it leans into its hellish premise and plumbs the depths of its own depravity.
Bullet Train pulls off the notable feat of making human beings out of cartoonishly violent psychopaths.
Only Michel Shannon’s off-kilter timing brings The Quarry to sporadic life.
The film falls back on the myth of modernity being born in the laps of practical, native-born American ingenuity.
Rian Johnson’s film revives the comic whodunit, a la Clue, for an era of especially heightened class consciousness.
The play depends especially on the strength of its leads, and here it has two eager thespians who make the most of its drama.
There’s a difference between ambiguity and vagueness, which State Like Sleep doesn’t always discern.
One may wish that as the storyline pushes forward that it succumbed less to portentous melodrama.
Ramin Bahrani’s Fahrenheit 451 represents every culturally bastardizing tendency it pretends to decry.
12 Strong inevitably proceeds as a jaunty imperial adventure through the wilds of northern Afghanistan.
The impudent, unruly streak that so often gives Guillermo del Toro’s films their pulse has been airbrushed away.
The Shape of Water’s setting yields an inherent coldness that Guillermo del Toro must work to overcome.
It’s clear that the film’s aimless yet weirdly un-pretentious one-thing-after-another-ness is intentionally achieved.
Bart Freundlich alternates somewhat arbitrarily between his various plots, leaving a lot of loose ends in the process.
Mahershala Ali’s performance self-effacingly articulates the humanity of a man that so many in our country would like to pretend is non-existent.
Frank & Lola occasionally benefits from the weird energy shared between Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots.