A brave moment of truth-telling that rips the band-aid of fiction off contemporary television retellings of corruption, injustice, and systemic racism in this country

By Season 2, the show is “operating at the peak of its powers. … It feel[s] very much like a series that has found its moment in history.”

Jessica M. Thompson’s simply-structured film is harrowingly effective in its streamlined, low-frills way: sensitive without ever being sanctimonious, brutally frank without ever lapsing into exploitation.

With a much-needed message for our times, a talented ensemble cast, and the period appeal of a Mad Men-with-a-feminine-flair production design, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is well on its way to becoming the next obsession for Gilmore Girls devotees.

The proof that the “Trip” formula hasn’t become formulaic? How often, and hard, these two can make an audience laugh.

As otherwise powerful as The Vietnam War is as a film and a historical document, it misses a significant opportunity to go beyond the rhetorical ‘for what?’