It has the feeling of a first date, but ends with a reckoning, run through with the conviction that we can never really leave the past behind us.
Picking up immediately where last week’s episode left off, “Sit-In” an impeccably constructed tour de force.
Branagh fully understands the societal critique underlying the tale, and brings it out into the open.
45 Years is basically a showcase for Haigh’s finely tuned screenplay and the performances of its two leads.
It’s perhaps only natural that a film festival as wide-ranging as the Berlinale would include a few documentaries about filmmakers.
The festival’s program has never felt so scattered, a sensation that I found delightful.
A master class in suspense, not only of spies caught in a tightening net, but also of characters whose choices begin to feel less like liberty and more like entrapment.
Imagine an entire film made up of variations of those occasional free-associative montages of Vienna in Museum Hours.
The setup suggests a topical takedown of both corruption in the priesthood and the ruthless ways Catholic churches have tried to cover up their immoral behavior.
Many ghosts come to tell Tyreese why he died, but none of them are quite as convincing as the nasally voice on the radio.
In what amounts to something of a departure for Looking, the episode picks up where “Looking Top to Bottom” left off.
As it fixates on a set of characters languishing in their current situations, the episode locates the genuine comfort that clichés can offer us.
With Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick achieves the sense of stylistic ossification that many accused his last feature, To the Wonder, of embodying.
Theoretically, the subject of Queen of the Desert could hardly be more Herzogian in nature.
In keeping with his recent work, Panahi turns the camera on himself and his own government-imposed creative struggles.
The film manages to be a law unto itself even in light of Guy Maddin’s previous oeuvre.
“Baggage” uses Philip and Elizabeth’s respective reactions to Annalise’s death as an entrée into the subject of childrearing.
“EST Men” frames the debate between Philip and Elizabeth in universal terms: How do you raise a child?
Tops, bottoms, douches, enemas, rim jobs, “hot shower orgies,” and even a swinging dick or two.
The episode’s title is an acknowledgement of the agency wielded by the show’s core group of women.