Review: Homeland: Season Five

Like the excellent fourth season of Homeland, season five suggests a politically wise and deeply skeptical update of John le Carré‘s very best spy-centric work.

Review: Phoenix

Phoenix never luxuriates in all this film history, but rather channels the artifice and affect it embodies into new insights.

Review: Barbara

Most compelling in Barbara, Christian Petzold’s latest, is the way the filmmaker adeptly conducts his tides of Cold War paranoia.