The at times meticulous realism of Tim Mielant’s film eventually gives way to hokey drama.
The narrative is helplessly adrift, a yarn that extols vague grit and determination with no discernible through line.
The film is at once enabled and hindered by its utter strangeness, an intrinsic quality surely exacerbated in its English-language release.
Game of Thrones’s best season yet comes with a typically great transfer and enough extras to please devotees for days.
The film has some pretty divisive issues at its core, ones that leave it torn between contrasting approaches.
The series feels like it has some firm footing and a newfound sense of certain direction that was lacking intermittently in the second season.
Whether you pay the gold price or the iron price, HBO’s top-notch box set of the show’s second season is well-worth the investment.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss try too hard to introduce an elemental aspect to Game of Thrones’s focus on the nature of power.
The second season of Game of Thrones really hit its stride tonight with “Garden of Bones.”
With tonight’s episode, the writers of Game of Thrones continue the trend of organizing each episode of season two around a different theme.
The most exciting thing about the season-two premiere of Game of Thrones is its refreshing sense of focus.
The new season introduces an assortment of fresh environments, expertly visualized by the show’s tremendous production values and adept crew.
This Blu-ray release of Game of Thrones is the best way to field test your high-definition, DTS home entertainment system.
Following from that stunning close-up that opens the show, Game of Thrones does its best work in the close-up mode.
Always talking about going somewhere else, the film’s understimulated overlords act like frustrated adolescents.
Anton Chekhov’s peculiar espirit can pose a formidable challenge to cinematic adapters.