Director Will Raee’s film takes its cue from the Toddlers & Tiaras school of reality TV child exploitation.
It’s difficult to believe Ryder’s gullibility, if not willingness to be caught in his uncle’s strange web of provocations.
Season five of Louie refocuses on Louis C.K. as a lonely, divorced, ostensibly well-off New Yorker.
If “Elevator” proved a sweet treatise on being with someone to stave off loneliness, “Pamela” at last lets Louie ease his way into a real relationship.
Parts four and five of “Elevator” devote nearly half their running times to extended digressions.
Louie offers a chance to reconnect with Louis C.K.’s roots as a more modest performer.
Louie is akin to Seinfeld in its view of a privileged life constantly swayed by the particulars of Manhattan geography.
Tze Chun’s film exudes no flair in rehashing the violence and suspense of its predictable noir-thriller material.
Simply the best television of 2011, presented on two gorgeous Blu-ray discs, courtesy of Fox Home Entertainment.
What we really need to talk about is the fraudulence of Lynne Ramsay’s overripe collage of bright colors, smug pop music, and flimsy characterizations.
Louie is smart, cinematic, and bitterly honest.