Maria Schrader’s film is crushed under the weight of its own self-importance.
Dash Shaw’s deceptively simple animation regularly descends into phantasmagoria that delivers on his story’s strange premise.
Dano’s contemplative period piece receives a wonderful Blu-ray transfer and handful of illuminating extras.
The series feels ordinary, so of a piece with other politically engaged prestige television.
The show’s third and final season struggles to consistently build gripping stories for its vivid characters to inhabit.
The film’s repetitive and lifeless dialogue robs otherwise charismatic performers of distinguishing characteristics.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a silly, mood-shifting shaggy-dog anthology that feels at once structurally ambitious and almost perfunctory.
Wildlife, a film about the destruction and rebuilding of self-esteem and the self, is utterly devoid of ego.
Unwitting transformation is on display throughout the season finale of The Deuce.
Pasts, presents, and futures are illustrated simultaneously, all balanced on the razor’s edge of Times Square.
The first episode of The Deuce introduces outsiders striving for success in their own illicit framework.
The film is always at least gut-rumbling and keeps its humor in situations that are morose and awkward.
The film has an eerily WTF arbitrariness that should be the domain of more films in the genre.
The film only serves to validate George Clooney’s devotion to showmanship as Hollywood’s current reigning poster boy for blue-state morality.
Right up to its simplistic ending, the film is pleased to regurgitate the contrived tropes of the genre without ever honestly addressing the ethics of romantic boundaries.
Cherry Jones loves company, so it’s fitting that she plays the proprietor of a bed and breakfast in the show.
The film is a quiet, tender triumph that leaves you feeling as if you’ve been embraced without you feeling had.
The film protests that bad behavior isn’t only good, but also essential to art.
Compared to most of the season’s races, Best Actress has remained somewhat open.
Ruby Sparks succeeds as a satirical fantasy about writerly self-involvement, but it’s worth celebrating as a testament to self-made greatness.