The season four finale of The Handmaid’s Tale, “The Wilderness,” provides one of the more stylistic approaches to showing character dynamics, allowing for closure and finality in the relationship between Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) and June Osborne (Elizabeth Moss). The…
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 4×09: Major betrayals set up the season finale next week
This week’s episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, “Progress,” helps bring together the threads left from the beginning of the season as it approaches the finale. In Canada, at the end of last week’s episode, June (Elizabeth Moss) decided to tell…
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 4×08 Review: “Testimony” explores power dynamics outside Gilead
The Handmaid’s Tale this week finally takes a turn towards the showdown we’ve all been waiting for, with June (Elizabeth Moss) in Canada telling her story to bring down the Waterfords. June has struggled with being oppressed by her “superiors,”…
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 4×07 Review: “Home” amps up the emotion
Comparatively to the last three seasons, season four of The Handmaid’s Tale is more toned down in its approach to the drama, evidenced by its choice of blue hues throughout the color patterns, opting for a more subdued atmosphere to…
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 4×06 Review: “Vows” peels back the layers of June
One of the major flaws of The Handmaid’s Tale is its frequent rinse and repeat of June’s (Elizabeth Moss) plights. We’ve watched her be caught and released over and over again, yet every time June decides she needs to stay…
Movie Review: The Square
The Square is a film about a social experiment which is, in its own odd way, itself a social experiment. Said experiment asks if a panel of Cannes jurists can overlook a film’s glaring structural problems, general listlessness, uneven tone,…
Sundance continues uphill climb to nowhere with ‘The Free World,’ ‘Wild’ and ‘Ali and Nino’
If you attend a lot of film festivals, one of the idiosyncratic and geeky pleasures is recognizing weird motifs that unintentionally connect very different films. This year’s Sundance appears to have a fascination with spiraling staircases and dead dogs —…