The film’s story threads are of a tonal piece, all about striking poses as opposed to exploring humanity.
Though it eviscerates the white establishment from the opening reel, much of the film exhibits a deeply conservative worldview, even for 1991.
Patrick Doyle’s wondrously bombastic score sounds as if Franz Waxman were scoring a slasher movie.
Linda Hamilton gets so little due respect over the years for how much of the film’s midsection rides on her.
Death is momentarily thrilling, but the struggles of those who live on are what sustain the series.
The ingrained self-hatred of its characters reflect outward toward those who remind them of themselves.
The power of the latest episode of Game of Thrones is that it leaves nothing to abstraction.
The depressing truth to the episode’s title may be that no one can get what they want without violence.
The series proves once again that action need not be explosive to be effective.
When Game of Thrones leans on its history, it takes on a resonance rarely found in fantasy.
The real danger in the world of The Americans is that one fails to notice they’re being crushed.
The latest episode of Game of Thrones takes a more subdued step back to reset the table for the next big event.
The episode frames its constituent parts as opposing forces, but in the end each element contributes to a coherent, if half-hidden, whole.
The show is no longer holding anything back in story or tone, and it’s making this fantasy world feel all too real.
Coming into this year’s Cannes Film Festival, it looked like the programmers had come up with one of their strongest lineups in a long time.
Francisco Márquez and Andrea Testa’s film interrogates what it means to stay on the sidelines during a military government and asks whether such a stance is possible.
Verhoeven’s Elle insists on realizing its central character through bold eccentricities.
For the Dardennes, this is typical moral-message territory, which they approach too deliberately.
Dolan adapts a talky play into something that could feasibly have the same emotional effect as a silent film.
Having been told so many lies, Paige has now become the teller, her parents’ child after all.