The series builds something different on the sturdy foundation established by the film.
The series suggests that winning hearts and minds is a naïve pipe dream, a strategy more fit for TV than for electoral politics.
The second half’s series of hollow visual spectacles foreground the film as a corporate product.
Its inquisitiveness gives all the melodramatic incidents more of a charge and a purpose for keeping our attention.
M. Night Shyamalan’s film is aimed at an audience from whom he cringingly craves fealty.
It’s an imagination-starved redo of The Happening crossbred with a more malevolent strain of zombie-flick DNA.
Part of the pleasure of Gary Ross’s film lies in watching it turn a typically male-dominated genre on its head.
No American film since Zodiac has exhibited such a love for the way information travels than The Post.
The sight of a murderous, misogynistic troll brought down by the women he abused offers unabashed pleasure.
The episode manages to get back to the inspired lunacy of the season’s first few installments.
The episode is at its most effective when charting the gut-wrenching effect of Kai’s madness.
The latest Cult understands how Kai Anderson’s power is made possible by concentric circles of enablement.
Almost everything in the latest episode of American Horror Story plays a bit too much like a thesis presentation.
As the series elaborates on all the things that brought Ally to madness, she’s been placed on the backburner.
The latest Cult manages to imbue its eventual villains with a level of empathy that’s new to American Horror Story.
The episode all too happily reminds us that strong emotions make people do crazy, often nonsensical things.
For better and worse, the horror on American Horror Story: Cult is all text and no subtext.
The premiere episode’s random acts of violence don’t confront fear so much as exploit it.
Danny Strong’s film suggests dramatic Tetris, and it leeches J.D. Salinger and his process of any mystery.
The actors discuss their new film, the thrill of improv, and making movies their own way.