For Ozu recommendations, check out Late Spring. I think it's his best work by far.

I've come to the conclusion that Nabin tends to write reviews based on what makes for a nice-sounding sentence, regardless of how accurate or useful it is.

Friday night, got a bunch of friends together to watch (and laugh at) Face/Off. It's probably the closest I'll ever come to an ironic The Room-like movie-watching experience: I wrote a short analytical essay of John Woo's filmmaking, and we all wore dressy clothes and had fancy wine and food. As for the movie, it was…

Wow, I thought I was the only one who disliked Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. My problem with it was similar to yours, Wolfman—the film never gives us a reason why any of the plot matters. It's just a bunch of horrible people screwing over a bunch of other horrible people; nothing and nobody in the film is worth…

"In a timid comic world, Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie feels genuinely dangerous and transgressive: it makes a virtue of going way too far because other comedies don’t go far enough."

Dammit, SPOILER ALERT

My impression of John Semley's answer: "I'm going to hate all popcorn movies that don't conform to my exact specifications."

I wish for movie studios to pull their heads out of their asses and give Guillermo del Toro a blank check to adapt At the Mountains of Madness. I was bummed for days after hearing that that project crashed.

@avclub-1f5b519cde67ac0d0fcab419aa3048a4:disqus I can't remember a time when Oldboy WASN'T dubbed-only on their streaming service. Maybe I came too late to that particular party. My larger point, though, is that you can't control which version of a film is on Netflix streaming; you have access only to the one version…

At first I just thought you were some random Netflix marketing plant, but then I read your insulting postscript and concluded that you're actually Reed Hastings.

Prime Cut has been all over the AVC message boards the last couple of days. Did it just get a Criterion edition or something, or is there a new hivemind I've been unaware of?

"You say you want to watch a foreign film? Hey, we got Bikini Girls on Ice on streaming, what more do you people want?"

I'm amazed they can justify phasing out DVDs when their streaming service is still so poor. Last year, it was impossible to watch Oldboy on streaming unless you were willing to accept its shitty English-dubbed version. Now, Oldboy isn't even available on streaming, period. And that's before you even get into issues…

Double Indemnity is one of my favorite movies of all time and also has my vote for "greatest film noir ever made." I might like Sunset Blvd slightly more, but for straight-up noir goodness you can't beat Double Indemnity.

I watched Another Earth. Great premise, great ending, but MAN was the characterization awful. It basically amounts to a lot of portentous nonsense mixed with a romance plot that wouldn't seem out of place in a network soap opera. This was a huge disappointment for me after hearing such good things about it (seriously,…

Thirded. Thoroughly enjoyable? Yes. Best Picture contender? Er … no.

Jeez, @avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus , they added Bikini Girls on Ice to their streaming library—what more do you want? Honestly, there's no pleasing you people.

Right on about Wilder's dark sense of humor, @Rich Tanguy. The other thing that gets me about his films is that almost all of them—or at least his best ones—take some pretty audacious risks considering they were made during an extremely conservative era in Hollywood. I can't imagine the equivalent of a Sunset Boulevard…

My impression of Moneyball is that the only people who think it's great are baseball junkies who actually give a crap about sports number-crunching.

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