Jason Bateman

Affleck’s directing strikes the perfect balance between humor and heart; Robert Richardson’s cinematography is dynamic and engaging; and the production design brilliantly embodies 1980s nostalgia.

“Thunder Force” is Falcone’s signature raw chicken filmmaking to its core. The real superpowers belong to those who can enjoy it.

Here are our predictions for which nominees will go home (or, in this case, stay home) with a golden statue.

With Taylor-Joy’s gazing eyes and sharp wits pounding through the screen, the audience is transported to the front row of her countless intense chess matches. If you ever thought chess was boring, “The Queen’s Gambit” will surely convince you otherwise.

Though every comedy series other than “Schitt’s Creek” went home empty-handed, the night was an overall improvement over recent ceremonies that tended to award endurance over quality.

The surprising success of “Fleabag,” along with a historic win for Billy Porter, made this year’s Emmys ceremony a pleasantly entertaining affair.

We are presently in a golden age of television. It would be nearly impossible for one person to sort through all of the television at our fingertips and decide what is or isn’t the best. This is where the Emmy Awards come in.

Yet by returning to the old format and strategically writing out some of the fourth season’s most lackluster storylines, the fifth season finds its legs.

What fans didn’t bank on was that the same ridiculousness that the "Arrested Development" cast so perfectly affected would seep into the actors’ real lives.

It’s an admirable flagship in the tradition of big laugh-inducing American farces, the kind that eschews specificity in favor of jokes that skew broad.