Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? builds something magical and immense from its miniature, material means.
As soon as I can, I’m going to stop using “indie” as a modifier ever again.
Breaking Bad is not a great show, but it has the makings of one.
The Brave One reduces our experience of the world with its drab and unimaginative aesthetic presentation.
Pierre Salvadori’s re-imagining of Breakfast at Tiffany’s wears its contempt on its sleeve.
When everything comes crashing down, as it always does in lives manufactured rather than lived, what are you left with, to whom do you turn?
Viva is great camp because it’s so over the top—pushes the envelope in all directions—while remaining dryly and wickedly deadpan.
Don’t know where to go for your Wire jones, now that you’ve lost the connect?
Much of the last 20 minutes was unapologetic fan service, which in this case was by no means a bad thing.
I’m torn, because I enjoy Burn Gorman and I like Owen as a character, but the dangers implicit in being undead have only started here, and they’re likely to get worse.
Smart and warmly crafted, Grrr… is sensible pop riddled with mistakes.
Would anyone want to sit through a film in which hunting and gathering takes precedence over defending one’s honor?
There’s undeniable verisimilitude here: part of what has people excited, I think, is that non-oddball teen boys have finally gotten their day on-screen.
The last three films that Gus Van Sant has made constitute a trilogy.
David vs. David vs. David, or Which Is the Greatest TV Drama Ever, The Wire, Deadwood, The Sopranos?
For me, The Sopranos is a tough choice, because the three shows deal with America in different ways.
The family ends in shambles here, scattered and unreliable, a debt due.
Shelley Duvall is one of the weirdest and most beguiling performers to ever find regular work in movies.
We open with a routine, but nonetheless very nicely produced, Weevil hunt.
Pedro Costa’s digital video aesthetic makes light itself a character in Colossal Youth.
Is the best episode ever of the best TV drama ever QED the best single TV episode of all time?