Movie Reviews
Movie Review: Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name ventures into a realm of romantic and sexual possibility in some sunny territory referred to only in the film as “somewhere in Italy.” Luca Guadagnino is a master of lavish and seductive tones but, guided…

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Fargo 3×10 Review: “Somebody to Love”

Somehow, Fargo’s final episode, “Somebody to Love,” manages to be both stupidly excessive and disappointingly anti-climactic. The ending, which pits the show’s two defiant moral figures sitting face to face, is perhaps its one inspired moment, but everything that precedes it…

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Fargo 3×09 Review: “Aporia”

In the second to last episode of the season, Fargo experiences an overwhelming drop in quality from episode eight’s twisted and colorful odyssey of violence. “Aporia” continues to unroll Noah Hawley’s endless disappointment in humanity. Yet without the unobtrusive optimism which made…

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Fargo 3×08 Review: “Who Rules the Land of Denial?”

The first half of “Who Rules the Land of Denial?” feels like the result of an idle and unassertive showrunner. Unsure of what to do with its characters, the episode spends the entire first thirty minutes absorbed in a fever-dream foot…

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Fargo 3×07 Review: “The Law of Inevitability”

“The Law of Inevitability” seems to have a tighter hold on the series’ disjointed narratives, but as the pieces all fall into place one can’t help but feel underwhelmed by the lack of chaos which made the series so watchable in…

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TV Review: Fargo 3×05 “The House of Special Purpose”

The fifth episode of Fargo’s third season seems to be about boundary pushing and it’s well timed. We’re halfway through the season, and though plenty has happened, our characters’ journeys, intertwined under the absurd laws of the universe, haven’t yet…

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TV Review: Fargo 3×04 “The Narrow Escape Problem”

Fargo’s fourth episode opens with Billy Bob Thornton reading Peter and the Wolf, a symphonic fairy tale told primarily through musical expression and voice-over narration. With Gloria as the heroic Peter and Varga as the villainous Wolf, the allegory between…