Well, we’ve enjoyed the reviews, which for me stood as the last vestiges of the old AV Club, the AV CLub we used to know. I hope all the departing writers make a similar valedictory post so we can all say farewell - I for one will be de-bookmarking this place I’ve read regularly since, I don’t know, 2006. It’s too…

At the risk of self-indulgence, I’m gonna pop down here for whoever is poking around in the comments section to say that this is my last A.V. Club review. (I believe that’s the case for everyone writing an A.V. Club movie review this week.) This is really more of a farewell-toned piece, ICYMI:

Farewell Dowd. You and basically everyone working at this site were so much better than J/O Media deserved.

everyone’s problem with every batman movie (particularly before they see it) has always been the casting, going all the way back to keaton.

Dowd, I’m glad the last movie you reviewed for this site was a halfway decent one. I’ll miss your good work around here.

Have you seen Robert Pattinson in any non-Twilight movies?

The bigger departure is that the girl isn’t wearing a girl-specific outfit - she’s wearing the exact same thing the boy is. I also noticed there’s a little badge on their arm, meaning they aren’t just some kids going on an adventure - they must actually be working for some protection agency, likely a nature…

Williams #1 is laughable.

This list is a good reminder that style is subjective...

it is hard to imagine a more wrong list. my god. McLaren and Renault should be blurred out of all video and photos for how obscenely ugly they are.
meanwhile Williams, while inoffensive, is not particularly good it is disjointed and has no connection to anything that would make you look at it and say “that’s a williams”…

I think most actors become better at just being quieter.  Keanu wasn’t the natural actor that Pitt and Hawke are, but regardless all three looked like they were trying to nail a role rather than settling back into it and letting the scene come to them.  It becomes about the movie rather than their individual…

I think that’s absolutely true. I do think that some guys like Reeves and Pitt just plain get better as they get older. Why wouldn’t you get better at something after doing it for 30 years? (Sure, you might hit a peak, but unless you’re a child prodigy, that peak should not be in like, year 2.) But at the same time,…

Donald Sutherland is so damn good in this movie. 

I assume this is another casualty of the great resignation.

I am so sad this column is coming to an end. I love that it’s a serious analysis of a lot of films which often get overlooked or treated with disdain, and there’s been a good mix of classics I’ve seen, underrated gems I want to see, and some really terrible pieces of work. Another one bites the dust...

Macfayden is such a gifted actor. He might give my favorite performance on Succession.

There’s a fairly famous line where Elizabeth declines to join Darcy, Hurst & Miss Bingley on a walk with the excuse that the three of them make a picturesque grouping and the lovely effect would be ruined by adding a fourth, which comes from William Gilpin’s advice on sketching cattle in the landscape:

What struck me when I first read P&P (somewhere in my late twenties) was how modern a lot of it seemed. When Mr Collins is proposing to Lizzie, both negging her and insisting she’s just turning him down to increase his affection for her, it was just like the screenshots of texts you see all over the internet from…

I love this movie.

I’m really baffled that in discussions of the greatest directors ever, no one ever seems to bring up William Wyler. Wuthering Heights, The Letter, The Little Foxes, Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress, Roman Holiday, The Big Country, oh, and a little movie called Ben Hur. What more do you need?