Mendonça Filho’s message in Aquarius is for a Brazil to recognize the strength and power of its heritage.
No other film at Cannes this year has had quite the same shock of the strange as Olivier Assayas’s latest.
For Assayas and Almodóvar, their films represent holding patterns like those that their characters can’t escape from.
Maren Ade possesses as fine an instinct for calibrating the emotions of her characters as any working director.
There’s a quietly revelatory virtue to Paterson in its resistance to disturb its subject’s life.
Jeff Nichols doesn’t bring to Loving the same excitement and urgency he brought to his more genre-driven work.
The latest episode of Game of Thrones finally starts uniting the season’s threads, often through blood.
At maybe half or a quarter of the length, American Honey might’ve gotten by on this surface-level vision.
The sex never escapes the feeling of the very exploitation that it’s supposed to represent a rejection of.
Cruelty here can feel cheap, perhaps a result of Dumont not knowing how to effectively command comedy yet.
Guiraudie’s latest represents a lot of the same interests that were woven into Stranger by the Lake.
The episode reexamines the distinctions we draw between offense and defense, between the necessary evil and the greater good.
The problem this season on Game of Thrones continues to be plotlines that seem horrendously out of place.
The notion that one can simply pick up the pieces and move on is the season’s central illusion.
Many of the events in Game of Thrones are developing so quickly that plot, by necessity, substitutes for development.
The episode is, in one sense, a portrait of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The episode sees the writers ruthlessly beginning to sew up loose (or underdeveloped) plots.
“The Rat” reaffirms one of the show’s central ideas that all of us are, to a certain extent, hiding in plain sight.
The video works by representing the body as the most direct visual expression of the self.
Mike Birbiglia film isn’t about success or failure as much as it is about the creative life.