The series leaves no police procedural cliché untouched but ultimately transcends its familiarity.
Every moment in Jones’s film is so precisely textured that it becomes fantastical.
The film can be fetching, but it’s nothing if not vacuous, a series of disjointed, improvisatory riffs.
The Mighty Macs is a film from another planet.
It traffics in a sort of vague, half-defined spiritual questing. It also deals in an opposites-attract romantic plotline between a pair of chemistry-less leads.
One Fall is a bafflingly lame assemblage of self-help platitudes.
Ultimately, at least in the first few episodes, cancer serves as a handy device to transform an uptight suburban woman into a free spirit.
Your bones will feel osteoporotic by the time you’re done consuming the extras on this hearty DVD package, but fans of the film will no doubt welcome the process.
David Fincher would seem, in terms of temperament, an unlikely directorial choice for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
From Patrick Wilson’s buttocks to the equally assy faces of the film’s gossipy stay-at-home moms.
The film is the Academy Award-baiting version of Don’t Ask, Just Tell cinema.