Sam and Andy Zuchero’s film suggests a Pixar film by way of Stanley Kubrick.
The show’s second season plays with structure and tone to explore the violence that shapes its characters’ lives.
The series embodies the “this is fine” meme, exploring the desperate impulse to shrug your shoulders as the world burns around you.
Like many artist documentaries, Moon Is the Oldest TV is an exercise in selection and emphasis.
The film’s fantastical meta-commentaries don’t completely cohere but have a winning go-for-it audaciousness.
This disc’s gorgeous 4K transfer and slate of extras make a strong case for the importance of physical releases of streaming titles.
Throughout The Humans, Stephen Karam orchestrates the highs and lows of a family reunion with Chekhovian subtlety.
The series alternates between internal reflection and bizarre comedy, one impossible to imagine without the other.
The Amazon animated series delights in the pleasure that superheroes must feel when wielding their powers.
The film’s orderliness of plot somewhat undermines the sense that the family at its center is steeped in a truly messy situation.
There’s an unsteadiness to this return to that certain dimension of sight, sound, and, of course, mind that dulls whatever impact it intends.
With Burning, Lee Chang-dong extraordinarily obliterates the bifurcation between life and representation.
The film is unmistakably alive to the humiliations of the social systems that keep the lower classes in their place.
It feels like Lee Chang-dong’s most reflexive comment on the dramatic possibilities of his favored narrative form.
Director Timothy Reckart’s The Star turns the greatest story ever told into just another kids’ movie.
The film’s gleeful disregard for good taste is undermined at every turn by characters spouting gratuitous backstory.
In Okja, a transporting protest fantasy becomes another shrill dust-up in the waging of the culture wars.
Every quick cut of a peaceful and happy time is a sliver of a lost past—or vision of a future that can now never happen.
The season finale of The Walking Dead builds toward its conclusion with self-consciously melodramatic flair.
The episode plays out during its first half as an elegantly staged prelude to an invasion.