It all climaxes in a literal wrestling with the self that suggests a character finally grasping her own limits as an actress.
The last few minutes of the episode are suffused with the potent mixture of love and bemusement.
The episode deals with several kinds of love: romantic, platonic, and that sparkly feeling somewhere in between.
Mueller convincingly posits freedom as being elusive because it’s essentially a violation of human nature.
Olds’s film is essentially a standard backwoods noir tale given a topical twist.
The episode establishes the rifts in the show’s key relationships through a series of skillful compositions.
The show’s minor characters leave vivid impressions while surfacing some truth about the major players.
The episode tightens the vise around the characters as if to test their instincts.
The tectonic shifts in the inner lives of Girls’s main characters sometimes bring them back together.
The season finale of The Walking Dead builds toward its conclusion with self-consciously melodramatic flair.
If the episode can be said to have a central thrust, it’s an interest in bruising the characters’ convictions through a series of unexpected developments.
The episode belongs to Marnie, who breaks the seal on the superficially successful but spiritually unfulfilling life she’s clung to up until now.
The episode is notable for images that are lucidly expressive of people’s sensory apprehension of their world.
The situation is now so grave one doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
The episode focuses on the surprising difficulty of figuring out who and what makes us feel at home.
The episode primarily focuses on two separate runs for supply—storylines that exist to create more forks in the narrative road toward the mysterious Negan.
The Americans is as full of formal coups as any of its more flashy brethren.
A minute doesn’t pass by during “The Same Boat” where a life isn’t threatened.
Like a Jane Austen novel, Girls seems obsessed lately with pairing its main characters up with long-term mates.
This year’s True/False Film Fest bursted with new possibilities for the documentary form.