Can Roseanne Make Roseanne Great Again?
Already the show’s producers have revealed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Roseanne and Dan Conner (Barr and John Goodman) voted for Trump, which has created a rift between Roseanne and her sister
Already the show’s producers have revealed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Roseanne and Dan Conner (Barr and John Goodman) voted for Trump, which has created a rift between Roseanne and her sister
The film sends the simultaneous messages that it’s futile to coddle children but also that it’s OK to feel the icky stuff that you feel, because even your weaknesses can be transformed to strengths
Kersey is the everyman, and Roth’s movie, whether he likes it or not, is the good-guy-with-a-gun propaganda the NRA is just lapping up straight out of the toilet
Thoroughbreds’ best trick is to convince us, through the aching stillness of its stars’ eyes, that it might not actually be a twisty, twisted thriller inspired by the likes of Strangers on a Train
Familiar faces (Mindy Kaling, Shannen Doherty, Roseanne Barr) return to network TV land, along with a bunch of new shows ready to spring into action as an alternative to those college basketball games that will only bust your bracket
The Looming Tower is a show about the human relationships that keep systems functioning — and how when those relationships break down, the system does, too
No other series even attempts to capture the tremendous variety within Asian America, much less to do so unassumingly
Potter isn’t what you’d call subtle, but she also knows not to overstay her welcome, and this pithy comedy is a masterclass in all that a filmmaker can squeeze from the most basic theatrical concept …
The director seems to be in pursuit of a broader tapestry: The Russia he presents is a wasteland of survival, where a woman’s only hope is pairing off with a moneyed man
The film gives only the most paltry consideration to geopolitics, to relations between the U.S. and Russia or America’s own corrupt operations
This year’s Colorado Environmental Film Festival highlights 56 films from ten countries, including the world premiere of How We Grow, a feature-length documentary following millennial farmers in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley.
The chemistry between Bateman and McAdams explodes in every scene and only grows stronger when, over the course of one very long and dangerous night, their characters get caught up in conspiracy
In the second season of the new One Day at a Time, it seems like everyone in the Cuban-American Alvarez family faces a crisis of their own that reminds them to hold onto each other
It’s often inspired in its cutting and composition, and Garland (Ex Machina) has crafted sequences of strange splendor, including a too-short cosmic light show
The characters talk extensively about what matters to them rather than what matters to the plot, exposing themselves, sharing the worries that keep them up at night
Also just like History, Period offers a chance for comedians and the actors who love them to play dress-up and goof off in a period-piece setting
An episodic ensemble drama organized around the logic of theme rather than of traditional narrative, the film concerns above all else accumulation and dispersal, in the American vein
In Between is a movie not so much about suffering as it is about the grinding reality of just being
Soozandeh wastes no time establishing both the hypocrisy of the devout in Iran (or America, or Gilead) and his Short Cuts-ian tapestry of characters
In the tense but hearty Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman, actress Daniela Vega plays a transwoman, Marina, who must navigate life after the death of her lover
It’s a twisty-turny crime drama complete with stolen money, vengeful mob bosses and all sorts of strange coincidences and random dialogue digressions
The narrative is needlessly complicated, and it all seems crafted just to build to a single joke voiced in the third act