Strange as it may sound, the absence of melodrama is the film’s greatest strength.
J.C. Chandor is able to mine potent workplace drama, and pluck tender nerves that are widespread among the current populace.
Margin Call loves speechifying, but the film is far more assured when lingering in the silence of its morally compromised characters.
According to Chandor’s logic, most of these characters are blameless victims by the time Margin Call takes place.
For once, bigger is better. And, in this case, oddly more personal.
I’ll be interested to see how strongly the public reacts to this reimagining.
It’s easier to think of the film as a qualified success given its undeniable recovery from a laughably abysmal opening scene.
Due to the striking Writer’s Guild, episode 11 of Heroes’s second season may be the last we see of the show for quite some time.
It was a depressingly mundane hour of Heroes this week, as the show’s massive fluctuations of quality week-to-week continued.
“The Line” is evidence of the lack of progress the show has made since returning in September.
The episode’s weakest material concerned the Bennett family, still stuck in suburbia.
Overall, “Kindred” struck a worryingly dull note, slowing plot development to a crawl and keeping the overall fun quotient pretty low.
im Kring and his writers seem intent on exploring the reasons and logic behind their superpowered universe, and the implications in terms of human evolution all this has.