Michael Shannon delivers a Robert De Niro-in-'Raging Bull'-caliber performance as real-life contract killer Richard Kuklinski. Too bad only Winona Rider, Robert Davi, and James Franco approach his level.
'Orphans,' the Broadway play that stars Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster, and Tom Sturridge (and was the focus of a good deal of Shia LaBeouf controversy earlier this year) is closing six weeks ahead of schedule.
FX's 'The Americans,' starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, is at its best in the season finale, which laid bare the inner workings of the FBI, Directorate S, and the Jennings family.