HBO’s The Gilded Age considers the social currents of the historical moment, alluringly cutting through the delusions of its aristocrats.
John and the Hole is most impressive when it proceeds as a series of confounding and uncanny situations.
There are no real supplements on this disc, but Eastwood’s eccentric and moving film speaks quite well for itself.
The film finally ends up souring its perspective on responsibility with a hardened take on the limits of the American dream.
Director and co-writer Hannah Fidell never finds the right mix of meaningful parable and sophomoric romp.
One may wish that as the storyline pushes forward that it succumbed less to portentous melodrama.
The Nun is the cinematic equivalent of a Conjuring-inspired maze at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios.
The film conveys a sense of pastiche unpredictably giving way to a raw and primordially intimate emotional realm.
Ti West’s methodical austerity yields in this film the most powerful passages of his career.
It lobs a grenade at slasher-movie sadism by making us care about the characters as more than just body-bag fodder.
Those familiar with Les Blank’s malleable approach to documentary production will recognize that energy in its nascent form.
“The Seven Wonders” finds Coven largely tending, predictably for the most part, to a final bit of plot bookkeeping.
The penultimate episode of Coven finds the series still desperately scrambling to introduce busy conceits.
It’s fair to say that Coven has evolved in a fashion opposite to that of the prior Asylum.
Life pours out of Treme and, like all good things, the series ends with equal parts rage and love in its bombastic heart.
Straight males may have found themselves in the position of actively envying two dead men while watching this week’s episode.
In this week’s episode of Coven, an elegantly interlocking series of plot turns suggests a major character’s undoing.
Creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk suffer few indulgences of sentimentality.
This week’s episode of Coven is ideally timed to remind us that Halloween was once a dangerous pagan event.
There’s a moment late in “The Replacements” that indirectly addresses a curiosity I’d already had in regard to Coven.