R. S. Martin

The sf-horror film Under the Skin , directed by Jonathan Glazer, isn't a thriller. It's an austere, deliberately paced character stu...

Writer-director Asghar Farhadi has a genius for intricate, richly nuanced domestic melodrama. His 2013 film The Past , his first made outsi...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . Nebraska , director Alexander Payne’s sixth feature, is an absorbing if uneasy mix o...

This review first appeared on Pol Culture . The TV series The Blacklist , created by Jon Bokenkamp, has a solid pulp-adventure premise. R...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . The Wolverine is the sixth film in the X-Men movie franchise, and the second solo ...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . The comic-book hero Superman, created in the 1930s by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, ...