The film hits its plot milestones as fast as humanly possible, cohesion or depth be damned.
Julius Avery’s film, intentionally or not, exposes the political subtext of all other superhero movies.
The film’s arguments against endless war end up seeming more than a bit disingenuous.
As David Benioff and D.B. Weiss show with this masterful rebuttal of an episode, it’s never too late to choose a different narrative.
There’s no shortage of empty gestures throughout the latest episode of the series.
Think of Julius Avery’s Overlord as a reminder from a major Hollywood studio that Nazis are really bad.
It’s the obnoxious equivalent of trying to have a serious conversation with people who are high out of their minds.
Violence is teased, but tantalizingly withheld, throughout the season-seven finale of Game of Thrones.
Three episodes into this truncated seventh season and Game of Thrones is spiraling toward a preordained place.
The exquisite Blu-ray transfer makes an argument for the film’s remarkable production design and audio/visual construction.
Even after six seasons, Game of Thrones still doesn’t know what’s most important to its own story.
Its headiness exists beyond its more pseudo-philosophical dialogue about the differences between fantasy and reality.
Ben-Hur director Timur Bekmambetov offers nothing new to the cinematic lexicon of the chariot race.
The show is no longer holding anything back in story or tone, and it’s making this fantasy world feel all too real.
Many of the events in Game of Thrones are developing so quickly that plot, by necessity, substitutes for development.
The film stages its claims through clunky dramaturgical scenarios, with the seams exposed at every turn.
Besson commits wholeheartedly to his decades-long preoccupation with waifish young women discovering their inner Shiva.
The film plumbs enormous tension by resisting precisely the kind of sensationalism that seems to be the siren’s call for this kind of story.
Tobias Lindholm’s hostage-negotiation drama wields its verité
style for maximum tension.