Gerald Peary
Adeptly directed by Roger Michell, “Le Week-End” soars because of its glorious leads.
Read MoreThe first few episodes of HBO’s “Doll & Em” operate as a fairly funny show-biz satire, but then the series takes a nosedive into turgid melodrama.
Read MoreAre the 16-year-olds in the deep South capable of such a challenging, cumbersome construction task? Especially with the school year coming close to an end?
Read MoreThis death trip romance is powerful, weird, and intoxicating — until its final scenes.
Read More“Gloria” explores better than any movie I’ve seen how, when middle-aged divorcees become a couple, they are still affected by their relationship with their ex-spouses and children.
Read MoreWho doesn’t want to be in a movie?
Read MoreWithout being preachy, HBO’s “Looking” offers a fine lesson that being totally out of the closet, as are all the many characters, can lead to a cool cool (and also hot hot) existence.
Read MoreWe do feel Charles Dickens’s heart tenderly beating, swept away by Nelly Ternan’s poised beauty, and it’s touching in an almost Chekhovian way, his being smitten by a love which can only bring sorrow.
Read MoreNic Pizzolatto’s scripts for “True Detective” have their moments but, self-consciously literary, they also are painfully overwritten.
Read MoreIn “A Touch of Sin,” four depressing stories float into one other, all said to be based on news stories from Chinese papers.
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