Bobby Cannavale

Secrets and lies laid bare by a strong cast make Roos' happy endings cathartic and reassuring.

You know what they call a Royale with Cheese in Austin, Texas? The Big One...ambitious and a typically satisfying outing for one of America's most consistent directors.

McCarthy does a fine job of juggling the domestic mystery, situational comedy, and inevitable drama, and his terrific cast is well-suited to the deadpan ethical satire.

Seemingly conceived on the fly as much as it's shot on the fly, Louie cultivates the unexpected.

While The War at times leaves one yearning for more intellectually curious analysis, it remains a potent emotional montage...

While fully embracing the single-camera and mockumentary trends that have all but taken over modern sitcoms, the show hearkens back to...snugly-fitted farcical plotting and traditional sitcom writing...

Blanchett's edgy comic brio, in Jasmine's blithely imperious manner, magically complements her tragic mental fragility and self-defeating desperation.

Bold, indulgent, polarizing, poetic, rapturous and artfully made but also an epic-length torment, like the secular The Passion Of The Christ.