The series has settled into a relaxed middle age, and one of the pleasures of tuning in at this late stage is the comfort of the familiar.
Lars von Trier’s pretenses of self-interrogation and cross-examination avail themselves as especially useful when considering his work.
Gondry’s squiggling animations—loaded with puns and cutesy-poo jokes—don’t really square with the subject.
What initially seems an obsessive-compulsive mash note to The Simpsons becomes a brain-teasing deconstruction of pop culture and more.
As goofy golf movies go, Caddyshack II isn’t even on par with Happy Gilmore.
It’s a boon for a short to taste like a flavor of the moment contending for best picture.
One wonders what the 23rd season of Matt Groening’s series would have to say about the Herbert Walker administration.
Be crazy. And by crazy, I mean unhinged, unpredictable and inspired.
Picking the five best Simpsons episodes is well-nigh impossible.
The film’s most unique quality is how it offers the chance to see how the series’s brand of humor goes over with a big audience.
It may not be the best…movie…ever, but it’s the best…Simpsons…movie…so far.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip veers from feeling like one of TV’s best shows to one of its most mediocre, often in the same scene.
Throughout, your own need to cheer Dave Musikant—and expect, even demand, a decisive victory over Steven Lonegan—is undercut by sobering political facts.
Like a lot of ambitious series, ABC’s Lost doesn’t hit a home run every week.
Being a kid in the 1970’s had its advantages, the least of which was not being responsible for the horrific clothing your parents made you wear.