Z&L: The Lives of Others was a bunch of sentimental Oscar-bait. It doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as this film.

The Deformitory
… is fantastic. The book isn't widely available yet, but I was lucky enough to come across it at the SF Zine Fest yesterday, where it was by far the best comic I picked up. It has wild flights of fancy but with a haunting inner logic. I couldn't stop thinking about the story of the girl with the…

The word "Conformism"
does imply an intentional hewing to the mainstream. Whereas all this graph really shows is that you're more likely to lay on the same side of the line as a majority of critics, perhaps due to some underlying tastes of yours that are particularly representative of the critical consensus, or, more…

Congratulations
on somehow relevantly mentioning Sophie's Choice and Once Upon a Time in the West in reviewing a film that has absolutely nothing to do with either.