Yeah
This seems to be the consensus of web critics at least, based on their early Twitter responses. Andrew Grant called it a "playbook of gangster movie cliches," Karina Longworth noted that it's basically "mumblecore with ADR and guns"and our own S. Tobias bemoaned the visual crappiness of its digital video. Not…

Kyle: if Mulholland Drive, In The Mood For Love, Royal Tenenbaums, and Waking Life fall into "good-not-great range" for you, you might just not like movies very much.

You crazy, Kyle? 2001 was actually one of the best movie years of this decade, 'sjust that the Oscars decided to pay more attention to Ron Howard's "Casper the Friendly Schizophrenic" instead. That year produced Mulholland Drive, Royal Tenenbaums, Memento, Donnie Darko, Ghost World, Waking Life, In the Mood for…

Stephen Daldry is a cancer
The Daldry record at the Oscars terrifies me because it means one of these years he's going to win the damn thing, for some awful piece of pseudo-art/anti-cinema dreck like The Reader, and he'll surely beat out some far more deserving director (like when Ron Howard won over Robert Altman in…

Yeah, what zetes said. You're talking about like half-century-old ways of thinking about art and movies. Not to mention you clearly didn't even read the interview, because Bahrani a) explains why Goodbye Solo doesn't really have that much in common with Taste of Cherry and b) notes that he could name a hundred good…

"Wiki-movie"?
Are you gonna explain that ambiguous bit of coinage, or make us guess what you're talking about?

Are you kidding? That movie was the worst shit I saw that year. I mean, Gosling was wonderful in it, but there was no meat on that movie's bones at all.

Thirst vs. Let The Right One In
Mike, for comparison I'd be interested in what you thought of Let the Right One In, because I heard similar complaints from some corners about that one—that it had great setpieces but no connecting tissue. I don't think that's entirely true—LTROI was a bit sloppy at times, but…

gimmickry
I'm not the first to point this out, but let's all remember: Widescreen used to be a gimmick too. When CinemaScope was first introduced in the early '50s, it was a hail-mary to steal viewers away from the new magical television box machines that the movie moguls were thoroughly convinced would be the death…

you'll probably get into this when the time comes
But I've always wondered how the subtitle situation is handled at such an international festival like Cannes. Are there separate screenings for English-speaking audiences? Are there just two sets of subtitles on all non-English/French-language movies?

Oh man, I always forget about Clone High but it's so great and underappreciated. I don't give a shit about Scrubs at all, but Clone High (along with the very different but equally awesome animated comedy Mission Hill) is one of the saddest cases of premature cancellation of the decade.

fredric brown
Is there anything by Fredric Brown in that seemingly bottomless box? He was a hyper-prolific pulp author who wrote both crime/mysteries as well as science fiction. I'm currently reading his mystery "The Fabulous Clipjoint," which has been described as the "Catcher in the Rye" of detective novels, and…

She has the chameleon-like ability to be really hot sometimes, and look like E.T. other times. She is actually pretty sexy in "Julia" imho (I saw it last year at a festival).

Another drawback of the festival experience was that "Julia" was screening at this one really shitty multiplex that I never go to except during the festival (this is the Chicago International FF). It's one of those multiplexes with way-too-big screens, so the print is always stretched out, and the theaters are small…

I'd say more like B-
I saw this at a festival last year. I thought it started out great, with Swinton completely owning the self-destructive boozehound character. But the endlessly piled-on thriller twists, extending the movie past the two-hour mark, were more enervating than exciting, and by the end I was both…

Hurt Locker, bitch
This summer is gonna be worth being alive to see The Hurt Locker. Fuck any other movies.

I seem to recall he was also on Veronica Mars once?

forest for the trees
I think the bigger problem here is — no offense to the AVC — this guy using the site as his "exclusive" source for information about movies. If he broadened his horizons a bit and read some other film criticism, he'd see that Josh's review was only one end of a spectrum of reviews for Crank 2…

how i i met your mothafuckaaaaa
This episode was clicking so perfectly and moving along so smoothly that it didn't even matter that I've grown apathetic about the identity of the mother. I think we're all confident that it's not Stella, and while I'm not thrilled about having her back on the show (she was funny in…

I hope we get to see more of Dan Castellanetta as the homeless guy. The dollar-a-day thing could blossom into a nice running gag, and Dan C knows how to make with the funny character voices.