The Amazon animated series delights in the pleasure that superheroes must feel when wielding their powers.
This new Boys in the Band is a Matryoshka doll of period piecery, a flashback of a flashback of a flashback.
The series visibly struggles to spin an enveloping atmosphere around its ideas.
Steven Soderbergh’s film considers modern media as a vehicle for revising white patriarchal capitalism.
Its future setting is an empty pretext for a banally convoluted and sentimentalized show of emotional restoration.
The film adopts a half-hearted variation on A Beautiful Mind’s gimmicky approach to grappling with a man’s mental illness.
According to Brian Shoaf’s Aardvark, a man’s psychosis boils down to an extreme case of sibling rivalry.
Justin Kelly’s film is more interested in rushing through the narrative’s events than contemplating their environment.
It depicts Snowden’s ethical dilemmas in a political vacuum that disregards America’s complex security threats.
Facts about each character are dutifully punched out, in earnest speeches or actions that are wildly overdrawn.
The film emphasizes its heroes’ inter-personal dynamics, and functions best as an extended team-building exercise.
If director Aleksander Bach’s choices are any indication, he cares less about characters and actors than about dubious surface dazzle.
The episode is taken by “reality” as a terrifyingly fluid and elastic realm, dictated by the conditions of the fragile mind.
“Daddy Issues” is all about boundaries and how quickly they can dissolve.
“Ask Me My Name” traces the course of a single night that spirals unpredictably out of control.
Cherry Jones loves company, so it’s fitting that she plays the proprietor of a bed and breakfast in the show.
Zachary Quinto brings a sulking but simmering aggression to Tom, played as a man who knows who he isn’t, but not who he is.
the black void of death is the darkness du jour in Abrams’s bracingly revisionist melodramedy.
The clarity and inventiveness of J.J. Abrams’s direction keeps the drama and the action constantly percolating.
This is a story of the downtrodden, the “freaks,” and those who don’t belong must figure out how to survive.