When “mother!” opened nationwide last month, it divided critics in a way no film had in a very long time. For every review that called the movie a masterpiece, there was one detesting it as nothing but Darren Aronofsky’s sick, bloated metaphor. Such a polarizing response can be exciting, and it would appear based on a new study that Aronofsky’s latest really does rank as one of the most divisive films of the 21st century.
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The Gizmodo UK team has released their official ranking of the 50 most critically divisive movies of the last 17 year, and it’s a list that includes the likes of such provocateurs as Lars von Trier, Terrence Malick, Jonathan Glazer, Harmony Korine, David O. Russell, and more. Gizmodo looked at over 9,000 films listed on Metacritic with at least 40 reviews.
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The Gizmodo UK team has released their official ranking of the 50 most critically divisive movies of the last 17 year, and it’s a list that includes the likes of such provocateurs as Lars von Trier, Terrence Malick, Jonathan Glazer, Harmony Korine, David O. Russell, and more. Gizmodo looked at over 9,000 films listed on Metacritic with at least 40 reviews.
- 11/22/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
As the most seasoned television watchers know, drama is at its most compelling when everything seems to be going wrong. When an episode can create exhausting conflict from every scene and make the audience feel as if nothing worse can occur for the characters, it is exhilarating television. “Fallout,” the tenth episode of Masters of Sex, is one of the series’ bleakest, saddest episodes to date, using the tensions of two nuclear drills at the hospital to make the characters look inward at their own forms of ‘falling out.’ Every scene is heavy with personal conflict, merged with the existential ennui that befalls any ‘end of the world’ scenario. As a result, even in an episode without the terrific Caitlin FitzGerald, we get one of the finer hours of the show so far.
The episode comes from TV veteran Lesli Linka Glatter, one of the best directors of the small...
The episode comes from TV veteran Lesli Linka Glatter, one of the best directors of the small...
- 12/2/2013
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Masters of Sex, Season 1, Episode 3: “Standard Deviation” Written by Sam Shaw Directed by Lawrence Trilling Airs Sundays at 10pm Et on Showtime -
The title “Standard Deviation” more obviously refers to William Masters’s chance encounters with homosexual men, who provide his latest ethical and moral hiccups in pursuing sexuality scientifically, but it also works to demarcate the episode as being the precise point Masters of Sex decides to make a clean break from history and chart a potentially very different path for its characters. I won’t go into too many specifics for fear of potential future-series spoilers, but it’s already clear that Michelle Ashford is setting out to use Masters and Johnson as more of a loose framework to probe big ideas about societal relationships to sexuality than strict historical portraiture.
The result is a bit of a mishmash, moreso than the first two episodes. The...
The title “Standard Deviation” more obviously refers to William Masters’s chance encounters with homosexual men, who provide his latest ethical and moral hiccups in pursuing sexuality scientifically, but it also works to demarcate the episode as being the precise point Masters of Sex decides to make a clean break from history and chart a potentially very different path for its characters. I won’t go into too many specifics for fear of potential future-series spoilers, but it’s already clear that Michelle Ashford is setting out to use Masters and Johnson as more of a loose framework to probe big ideas about societal relationships to sexuality than strict historical portraiture.
The result is a bit of a mishmash, moreso than the first two episodes. The...
- 10/15/2013
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Showtime promised Masters of Sex to be the fall’s most exciting new show. Standard Deviation, directed by Lawrence Trilling, is the first episode to reach those lofty expectations. It strikes a masterful balance of dark humour and heartbreaking drama and also manages to ask daring and thought-provoking questions about gender, especially given the show’s period context. There is also a certain comfort in knowing that it only took three hours of the series to get to the “deviant” outliers that would have to be a part of any all-encompassing scientific study on sex: homosexuality.
In this episode, Masters and Johnson are working as partners but are still not entirely compatible with each other. He still sees her as an errand girl in charge of organizing his experiments and showing people around the hospital while he helps to deliver quintuplets. Johnson is eager to prove herself as an assistant,...
In this episode, Masters and Johnson are working as partners but are still not entirely compatible with each other. He still sees her as an errand girl in charge of organizing his experiments and showing people around the hospital while he helps to deliver quintuplets. Johnson is eager to prove herself as an assistant,...
- 10/14/2013
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
After William Masters' sex study was booted from the hospital, he was forced to move his work to a brothel.
In "Standard Deviation," we see that the study isn't working out the way Masters had hoped because he's not getting the type of subjects he planned for. In his words, his subjects must be "normal" or "average" and this, in his view, does not include homosexuals.
In a series of flashbacks between Masters and Provost Scully, we also learn just how long Masters has been interested in conducting an exploratory study on human sexuality and the lengths he has gone to get here, while delving into the close history between these men.
Human sexuality and physiology are something William Masters was interested in studying before he was even finished being a student. Around the time he applied for his fellowship, he asked his friend Scully (pre-Provost) what it would...
In "Standard Deviation," we see that the study isn't working out the way Masters had hoped because he's not getting the type of subjects he planned for. In his words, his subjects must be "normal" or "average" and this, in his view, does not include homosexuals.
In a series of flashbacks between Masters and Provost Scully, we also learn just how long Masters has been interested in conducting an exploratory study on human sexuality and the lengths he has gone to get here, while delving into the close history between these men.
Human sexuality and physiology are something William Masters was interested in studying before he was even finished being a student. Around the time he applied for his fellowship, he asked his friend Scully (pre-Provost) what it would...
- 10/14/2013
- by leigh.raines@gmail.com (Leigh Raines)
- TVfanatic
Mark it in your calendars everyone: Today is the day I lost all faith in the Journal of Sexual Medicine as a reputable source of information. I am sure by now you all have come across this latest study that "finds" a correlation between the shape of a woman's lips and her ability to have a vaginal orgasm. This paper ... is not good science. It's not even fun, entertaining sorta-science. It's a rage inducing pile of crap so laden with misogyny and misrepresentation about women's bodies and psychology that I'd be surprised if the authors have ever personally even been in the same room as a genuine female orgasm. I cannot for the life of me figure out what the editors and reviewers at Jsm were thinking. (Oh wait, yes I can, they were thinking of the shiny, shiny headlines). I hope you all are in the mood for some figurative blood and guts,...
- 6/29/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
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