This is a film that’s content to imitate its influences rather than build an identity of its own.
The film suggests a 21st-century Bosch painting brought to you by OpenAI.
Folie à Deux is a film caught between a rock and a hard place of its own making.
The show’s second season plays with structure and tone to explore the violence that shapes its characters’ lives.
The series is buoyed by a sharp script but fails to develop a real sense of momentum.
Fundamentally, the series is about the difficulty of finding contentment in a world that perpetually keeps you on the defensive.
Bullet Train pulls off the notable feat of making human beings out of cartoonishly violent psychopaths.
The Bad Guys is a heist film that steals all of its moves.
Writer-director Edson Oda never really puts a unique spin on the familiar story of otherworldly figures peering in on the lives of the living.
The Amazon animated series delights in the pleasure that superheroes must feel when wielding their powers.
Throughout, the filmmakers occlude the most fascinating and potentially powerful elements of Jean Seberg’s history.
Noah Hawley treats his protagonist’s story as a somber tragedy that at times stoops to trashiness.
The film is one that might have been dreamed up by one of the cynical douche bros from the Hangover during a blacked-out stupor.
The final season fulfills the possibilities of the show’s concept, informing it with humanist fury.
There’s a little Charlie Chaplin in the Joker’s steps early on, before madness grips him in ways that would probably make Pennywise shudder.
Steven Soderbergh’s film considers modern media as a vehicle for revising white patriarchal capitalism.
It climaxes with a clever workaround of the superhero blockbuster’s overreliance on apocalyptic finales.
Most of the film’s great moments belong in Matthew Porterfield’s traditional observational wheelhouse.
Matthew Porterfield’s Sollers Point conveys the limitations of freedom within towns like the one at its center.
Bart Freundlich alternates somewhat arbitrarily between his various plots, leaving a lot of loose ends in the process.