By episode’s end, most of the show’s key characters have re-invested in the things that most matter to them.
The film is committed to the sort of broad strokes that reduce a great artist’s life to a spectacle of self-pity.
This is a decent transfer of a lovingly detail-oriented period melodrama, from one of its finest contemporary practitioners.
The film draws on a little-known historical footnote as the haunted backdrop for an otherwise tepid contemporary drama.
You will not see another film this year made with so little ambition.
Debra Kirschner’s The Tollbooth has all the nuance of a stun gun.