Creature Comforts America: The Complete First Season (review)
Monotonous, repetitious… highlights the ordinary in the most banal way possible…
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The Sarah Silverman Program: Season One (review)
Her schtick seems deliberately calculated to induce paroxysms of nerdy joy in a specifically juvenile segment of the male audience…
Jericho: The First Season (review)
The sprawling cast is all-Americana; the sprawling themes come as a direct slap in the face to the terrifying road America off the tube is heading down, a world of repealed civil liberties and constricted freedoms…
Gone Baby Gone (review)
It’s no rare thing that a film gets buzz for its director. It’s a rare thing when that director has never made a film before. It’s an even rarer thing when the film by that first-timer turns out to be as astonishingly confident and shrewd as actor-turned-director Ben Affleck’s *Gone Baby Gone.*
Michael Clayton (review)
You sell out and you sell out and you sell out until you can’t do it anymore. And that’s when things gets interesting.
The Jane Austen Book Club movie review: WWJD?
While movies about people clever and engaged enough to enjoy reading for fun may, in theory, be desirable, movies about people *actually reading* are less than totally enthralling.
The Catherine Tate Show: The Complete First Season (review)
I used to love the old Tracey Ullman show, but I don’t think even she, goddess of comedy, quite approached the astonishing range of ingenious characters the way that her heir apparent, Catherine Tate, does.
Jekyll (review)
Half deeply disturbing and ooky, half goofy and cheesy in the most deliciously pulpy way, this is TV of a caliber that we rarely get to enjoy on American television…
Heroes: Season 1 (review)
Astonishingly addictive…
Eastern Promises movie review: viva Viggo
Movies about gangsters: You expect a lot of noise. Shouting and screaming. Barrages of gunfire. Not here. Here we have somber reflection, the lurking gray peril of an urban underbelly, shifting shifty glances and unspoken threats. ‘Eastern Promises’ is almost silent — even its title sounds like a shush.
