The movie dramatizes Cronenberg’s preoccupations more, well, organically than his his other collaboration with Viggo Mortensen.
The wall-to-wall Ianto would be enough to bury this episode, but Chris Chibnall, the series’s lead writer, keeps piling on.
It’s difficult to discuss Doctor Who’s penultimate Season Three installment, “The Sound of Drums”, without also talking about the events of the episode that follow it.
This week’s episode was particularly notable where geeky continuity-oriented details are concerned.
Peter Berg’s film is a two-faced liar.
It surely isn’t lost on Mamet that the title of his 1987 debut feature, House of Games, doubles as a three-word summation of his career.
Redacted revels in a mixed, often muddled sense of humor and horror.
The episode subjects us to a lot of slow-moving exposition and fuzzy hints about overarching mysteries that won’t be resolved for months to come.
In the Shadow of the Moon is a documentary on a topic that seems hard to screw up.
This is definitely one of those films made of moments greater than the whole.
There’s not much new here, aside from Lumet’s enthusiasm and simple craft.
Let me get my nitpick out of the way: they’re running around again.
If “Blink” was the perfect standalone episode of Doctor Who, then “Utopia” is just the opposite.
Both employ vivid palettes of light and color to evoke feelings of adventurous movement through time and space.
Sean Penn shovels phoniness on top of phoniness in one poorly staged scene after another.
How desperate was Hollywood in 1970? It let Hal Ashby make The Landlord, a crazed, profane racial satire written by negroes.
The film never coheres in the ways its individual moments suggest it will.
The Japanese legal system comes under intense scrutiny in I Just Didn’t Do It.
Finally, we have independent confirmation that human sexual relations are indeed the best thing in the universe.
Is it possible that “Blink” is the greatest Doctor Who episode ever created? Maybe.