When the film’s actors are given space to etch their characters’ feelings, they turn in strikingly naturalistic performances.
The film reeks of the extremely idealistic notions of young love that plague many a YA adaptation.
If the movie has the ring of a high school or college reunion, that’s because that’s pretty much what it’s like.
Josephine Decker is a dazzling artist, most notably for her commitment to everything that drives her characters.
In terms of scale and narrative ingenuity, Wormwood is as staggering as any Errol Morris film before it.
Thomas Jane’s dramatization of rage is shrewdly comical in its overt and ultimately moving über-manliness.
Every incident in the film is a time-biding maneuver, completely and unimaginatively untethered from logic.
The show’s writing feels wrapped up in hitting plot points and story beats rather than seeking out moments of violent personal revelation.
The weather in Washington, D.C. continues to be permanently overcast in season two of House of Cards.
The film is an under-realized tale of children coming of age and marriages falling apart.
WWE Films’s That’s What I Am is surprisingly low on testosterone.
A muddled vision, but one anchored by fiercely convicted performances by Viggo Mortensen and Robert Duvall.
The set pieces largely convey the same feelings as the novel’s, but screenwriter Joe Penhall’s adaptation has a patronizing way of spelling out their significance.
All the fertility rites in the secluded Pacific Northwest island of Summersisle can’t bring life to this barren remake of 1973’s The Wicker Man.
The closing shot of last night’s Deadwood episode was never meant as a series-ender.
The duality between what one has/wants and what one is/desires to be proves to be a lackluster thematic spine.
Deep down, you just knew that Whitney Ellsworth was too good to live.
Vice kingpin and frontier power broker Al Swearengen acted like a real prince in Sunday’s episode.
The show depicts human beings as they are—scatterbrained, selfish, myopic, sometimes viciously cruel.
The episode feels like a summation of the show’s thoughts on what it means to be mortal.