Alexander Skarsgard

Salted freedom fries, mini sliders with toothpick flags and terrible biodynamic German wine: “Tailgate Party” finds the Roy siblings setting fire to American democracy.

The bulls—t brothers head west for a product launch at Waystar Studios in Los Angeles, with a new disastrous plan to price out Lukas Matsson by overinflating the value of the Waystar's newest pitch.

“Kill List” is ripe with subtext upon subtext, with power seesawing rapidly between the siblings, the old guard and the Swedes.

There is no dearth of ambition in Robert Eggers’ third feature, which forsakes arid Viking drudgery — the kind mired in the myriad folktales “The Northman” sources from — for orgiastic, chainmail-clad antics.

Skarsgård’s performance communicates the callousness of a cold-blooded soldier, providing a look into violent American patriotism.

Credits would roll, but it’d be difficult to string together a list of more than one or two relevant happenings in the episode.

“Long Shot” is at its core a film about a woman needing a man to “have it all,” and this is simply not a narrative that we need in the year 2019.

“The Aftermath” largely ignores this difficult world, instead lazily smushing a painfully awkward affair together with shoddy political side-stories. We the audience are left with a frustrating mess that, at its worst, is little more than misguided Hallmark soap.

A passion project 16 years in the making, “Mute” appears to be the type of dexterously engaging film that we’ve come to expect from Jones.