The series plays out like a sultry crime thriller, but what lies beneath its edgy, multi-perspective plot is a social drama about class.
Ridley Scott’s medieval saga insightfully revels in the complexities of its competing storylines.
The film comes to Blu-ray armed with a superb A/V transfer and a solid packing of extras from Universal.
The film folds narratives on top of narratives in a vain attempt to mask the fact that there’s nothing to read between its graceless lines.
“Rough Edges” just plunges forward, pell-mell, not terribly concerned with if it makes a lot of sense.
The writers have acknowledged our new understanding of Patty as an enigma in order to tease us with what seems to be a process of humanization.
Martin McDonagh is far too pleased with stuffing his characters’ mouths full of overly written speeches and one-liners.
Fans of the film will want to opt for the Nordisk Region 2 disc, which boasts better image quality and actual extras.
The Brechtian formalism that stirred the more ambiguous Dogville’s philosophical inquisitions is put to uninspired use in Manderlay.
Dogville is less anti-American than it is, quite simply, anti-oppression.