The Brothers close out their discussion of The Last Jedi, focusing on the film's politics, visual invention, continuity with The Force Awakens and the Prequel Trilogy.
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Phantom Thread is a beguiling masterwork from Paul Thomas Anderson, full of psychological and artistic insights and aesthetic delights.
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From Dunkirk to Blade Runner 2049 and The Lost City of Z, Aren offers up his top films of 2017.
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The Brothers continue their discussion of The Last Jedi, focusing on its premise, what it does with the Force, the new characters, and the big death.
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From Twin Peaks to BoJack Horseman to American Gods, Aren lists the best television shows of 2017.
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The Brothers begin their discussion of the divisive new film in the Star Wars series, The Last Jedi, focusing on shattered expectations, connections to the Original and Prequel Trilogies, and the film's controversial choices.
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The Brothers share their picks for the essential films of 2017, from prestige cinema to the arthouse, multiplex fare and documentaries.
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Guillermo del Toro's romantic fairy tale has an issues with character motivation, sexuality, and political messaging.
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The Shop Around the Corner is an exceptional romantic comedy that captures the intellectual and emotional fencing match that is early romance.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is as shamelessly manipulative and formulaic as a Hallmark picture, but at least those films are self-consistent.
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This is a work of exceptional sympathy, of one artist bonding with another and transcending his own failings as he explores the failings of another.
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Marjorie Prime is a modest science fiction film that prompts big questions about identity and memory.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is funny and thoughtful with moments of arresting pathos, but it's also a little confounding.
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Wheelman is the sort of honest B-movie entertainment that Netflix ought to be funding more often.
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Atomic Blonde is an obvious, cliché and, most sadly, boring spy action film cobbled together from secondhand tropes and pop culture references.
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Justice League is merely good, while aspects of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the presence of both Whedon and Snyder suggest that it could’ve been great.
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There’s no good reason for 11/8/16 to exist in this moment, beyond our obsessive need to relive past trauma with no desire to learn from it.
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Patrick McHale's series captures the moral storytelling and darkness of early-modern fairy tales, even as it contains modern sensibilities in humour and character.
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Featuring various techniques of defamiliarization, Hacksaw Ridge is war film that is both conventional and original, and, ultimately, deeply affecting.
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Neither as slick and enthralling as Narcos, nor as well-shot or well-acted as Bloodline, Ozark is still surprisingly capable and sometimes excellent. This is solid second-tier TV.
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