This was great. Three minutes in I was wondering what was so brilliant about what seemed to be a perfunctory set-up scene, but when the music drops out it is a punch in the gut. Paltrow sells it beautifully, but what I think really puts it over the edge is Jones's reaction. It's like he knows that he is seeing…

in his defense, Jackie Blue sounds NOTHING like anything else they ever recorded.

My dad is from Springfield, Missouri (where the Daredevils are based) and if Jackie Blue comes on the radio/gets mentioned, he will go on a 5-minute rant about how anyone who likes that song is not a true OMD fan. Direct quote: "It's no Chicken Train, that's for sure."

Great review, as always, but a glaring grammatical mistake in an opening sentence really bothers me to an indefensible degree. How did that get past a writer and an editor? Honestly not trying to be a dick. But can a reader get an independent clause up in this bitch???

Ok, we get it, you guys are too cool for Green Day. But if you can't appreciate the pop songwriting in Warning and especially Dookie then you're missing out. Green Day was never trying to be Dead Kennedys. They're pop artists that use the aesthetic of punk music, and that's what they've been since the beginning. I get…

I'm with you, I think he really perfected his aesthetic starting with Moonrise Kingdom and everything since then has been in a class of its own. Sure, they're not morally complex, difficult dramas but that never seemed to be his goal. I like the characters and plotting much better in his later movies too. The…

Totally agree on Led Zeppelin. It has 3/4ths of an all-time great band. I just cannot stand Robert Plant's voice. There's something about it that seems so measured and faux-mystical and theatrical and it just turns me off in almost every song. It doesn't seem to be as grating on tracks that are more pop than epic or…

No you're not—if you were voicing your opinion, you would have done it once and moved on.

But is trolling really defined by intention? So you're on a serious mission to convince a comment board of people commemorating him that he was an obnoxious pompous hypocritical snob that we should all hate?

I think you missed the lesson in Trolling 101 that states if you troll a hundred times on one comment page it becomes kind of obvious that you're trolling

One time Ebert devoted an entire blog entry to highlighting some of his commenter's blogs–which he regularly looked at—and included my blog. I was 16, and it literally changed my life. I had no confidence in my writing until he encouraged me to keep doing it. More importantly, he showed me his bottomless capacity to…

Since when has Ignatiy Vishnevetsky written here? EVERYONE should check out his stuff on Mubi.com. One of the most talented and dedicated young critics out there.

Best cocaine depiction I've seen is in Goodfellas, that whole 30 or so minute sequence when he's making pasta sauce, selling coke, running errands, and constantly looking at the helicopter he (correctly) thinks is following him. I love it because of how over the top it isn't—like real cocaine, it isn't an encompassing…

This is embarrassing because it still seems like it just came out, but I'm going with Green Day's American Idiot. I was in the 7th grade at a suburban Catholic school and becoming increasingly angst-ridden when it came out. It made my lame life epic, like I could be part of my own little rebellion against…some…