They also dressed the story in bathos and political correctness, arguing that female moms and cubs would be preferentially at risk.

FORBES: Drowning Polar Bears And the Return Of Ursus Bogus

Bathos and rage, ambition and frustration, and forbidden lust (filmed with a post-pornographic precision) converge in a sort of furious and less than fond farewell to himself.

NEWYORKER: Pola X

With no movie technique (but a great cameraman, Ed Lachman), Simmons has assembled her interests as if in a toy chest: old movies and TV commercials, Broadway songs, good-to-feel-bad bathos, and the effluvia of domestic life.

NEWYORKER: The Music of Regret

With a sharp eye for telling details, he avoids satire and bathos and creates characters of a rare complexity, which his incisive yet passionate visual style (with its rare attention to light and its absence) realizes empathetically.

NEWYORKER: Frownland