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Intriguing, Pop Trash! Hmm.... maybe I'll have to watch again.

Hi Peng, sounds like we’re not connecting. I don’t follow your objection to the article I posted.

I don’t agree with you, Peng, that this type of criticism is zeitgeisty. Feminist literary criticism has been around for decades and it’ll be around long after we’re gone. ...

Good points all around, Pop Trash. And maybe I’m projecting my naive romantic ideal onto the real world in which mismatched couples weirdly fall in love. ALL. THE. TIME. In spite of unfortunate power...

Right, Woodcock isn't physically abusive. However, he terrorizes women emotionally with his hot and cold game, and we see a pattern of it being very cold once he has his latest victim in tow and...

I had a hard time picking which paragraphs to quote because the argument unfolds in the review and there is not a zinger summation paragraph. If you read on, she’s actually pretty even-handed in...

As if the way we live now has nothing to say. As if the Great White American Male Filmmakers were making films in a vacuum. Yes, let’s pretend shall we?

Ah, the flame-throwing Internet. Delightful.

My nay is articulated well by this article. I agree with DavidSeven that the filmmaking is insular.

Here are the first two paragraphs of the article:

The Conjuring 2 was brilliant.

Everyone has to see Downsizing! It’s a big sappy preachy mess of a movie but it’s got a big heart and I LOVED it! Don’t listen to the critics. Can we have a dedicated thread? Thank you to whoever...

You're wrong about the script.

Argument:

The script does a beautiful job of building a closed scenario, a scenario in which there is a lot of dread and disgust, and which we figure will play...

I agree more with Molly Lambert over @ Grantland. Her take on the women of the show reflects mine: that episode 6 had a real showcasing turn for Michelle Monaghan and that Monaghan nailed it,...

I haven't. Do you recommend it?

Would love to see a review thread of this film. Mods?

Thanks!

Wonderful moody Wong. A carefully constructed dramatic story matters little in a film like this. What matters is the drama of the sounds of ice crystals breaking/shifting, the framing of a glowing...

I think this one is measured by how invested you get in Ellis' coming of age story, Mud's lovable dog personality, and their relationship. I really couldn't get enough of it. Nichols writes great...

Marvelous sound design. But. Increasingly inane plot (it's best act is the first with the Thief) made worse by the perversely elliptical, badly acted (especially Carruth), and self-serious scenes...

Hah! You're not much of a football fan, are you? Hell, not much of a sports fan. This PED stuff matters big time. It's the whole integrity of a number of sports now that are coming under fire. It's...

Disagree. This is about his legacy. There's a lot of people out there looking at Ray Lewis as the best LB of all time. If this PED stuff came out, he'd be considered a great LB who took PEDs. That...

Ray Lewis will get his comeuppance when he gets pounded with the inevitable PED charges following his "miraculous" two-month recovery from his torn triceps injury. An injury which usually takes...

Apparently, these are called Django moments. The writer of the article talks about how Django moments are when a person of color feels uncomfortable with the perverse enjoyment of a white viewer, but...

I agree with KF. This film fails as a piece of entertainment. The ending is way boring. There are no stakes and Django is invincible. And I felt sort of nauseous when Django was shooting Stephen in...

I recommend any of the shorts produced for BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas, especially Warning to the Curious and The Signalman, adaptations of MR James and Charles Dickens' short stories. Both on...

I may have liked this one better than any of the Lord of the Rings. I LOVED that it took a while to get going. The opening hour was perfectly matched with the way Tolkien started the book - in tone,...

Phil Jackson is the better short-term choice