Trust, you might say, is simply the time we spend waiting for the other shoe to drop, and in The Americans, it always does.
Walerian Borowczyk is at his most radiant when he combines unspeakable dread with a gallows humor, or with formal inventiveness.
One of the first things we see in the astonishing and consistently thrilling finale of the show’s fifth season is a rabbit’s foot.
In The Americans, of course, protecting one’s family and serving one’s country are consistently at loggerheads.
Much like the virus that makes the dead come back to life, there’s no clear, clean way to get rid of society’s ills.
A cynic might view the episode as fan service, but that would discount the faltering pathways that led to the poise these characters display here.
The season finale of Looking culminates in a single, extended take, perhaps three minutes in all, at the end of a lovers’ quarrel.
Throughout 7 Chinese Brothers, Bob Byington’s sense of humor is familiar and facile.
A morass of lies, betrayals and undetonated bombs, “Divestment” isn’t about civil disobedience but vengeance plain and simple.
To call “Spend” an emotionally exhausting experience would count as an early qualifier for understatement of 2015.
It’s here, in “Looking for Sanctuary,” that the series finally admits to a certain cyclicality.
“Daddy Issues” is all about boundaries and how quickly they can dissolve.
Manglehorn is too talky by half, especially when two or even three scenes are superimposed on one another.
The Americans traditionally finds suspense in the slow, summative effect of its wary glances and closed doors.
Lawrence Wright’s presence in Going Clear is a persistent reminder of what the film could have been.
Set almost entirely in a French employment-recruitment firm, Rules of the Game is a documentary David Foster Wallace would have loved.
We develop an investment in the health of these subjects, but remain aware that we’re unable to reach out to them.
Director Joshua Oppenheimer emphatically suggests that all of humankind’s troubles begin and end with the body.
Il Segreto is both a potent allegory about the anarchy of mob rule and a poignant depiction of a neighborhood traumatized by a cycle of poverty.
Rick is seemingly also showing new colors, getting a bit more comfortable with the Alexandria folk and paying especial attention to Jessie.