''Costner, grizzled and downbeat, escapes with his gruff charisma intact. He plays each scene as if he meant it, very straight and cool, and with enough vulnerability to show us that he's not hiding behind the macho thrill-kill postures.''

High camp and low-cut leotards: on the scene at Cyrus' wild opening night in Vancouver.

''Did we forget to mention that Travis Pope is a six-foot-tall praying-mantis supersoldier who wants only to eat and have sex? But don't let the weird and the wild deter you from this terrific postapocalyptic coming-of-age tale.''

''As mother-and-son oddballs Norma and Norman Bates, Farmiga and Highmore tag-teamed to make season 1 of A&E;'s modern-day Psycho prequel one of the best new shows of 2013. The duo were so mesmerizing in their twisted, dysfunctional relationship, however, that it was easy to overlook the issue that some of the plotlines surrounding them didn't always measure up.''