The Leftovers
There are passages of genuine beauty and joy and weirdness and sadness here, and Lindelof is trying to blaze a generally interesting trail, but all of it feels so calculated, unnatural, and unfelt by its writer.
The Mysteries
Acceptance
The texture of this final volume comes to mirror the uneasy, perplexing experience of its characters.
The Knowledge of the Holy
A proper understanding of the Christian God enhances an individual’s spiritual life and rightly aligns a church’s teaching.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
The story cycle’s richly envisioned, multi-layered scenario, and Wolfe’s ability to unsettle with playful and obscure language, make it terrifically memorable.
Demian
It doesn’t answer all of life’s questions, but says it’s okay to not know the answers just yet.
Taste of Cherry
It is humbling to watch this film as an American living in relative comfort, in the same way that it is humbling to travel to a third world country.
The Last Wave
We have roofs and windshield wipers, umbrellas, faucets, basins, and swimming pools, but when nature rears its chaotic head no buttress will stop the last wave.