It's what the Japanese call a shomin-geki, a term that English-speakers inadequately translate as "slice-of-life". First, watch it in its own terms, not as some sort of failed drama but as a successful shomin-geki.

Shomin-jeki. Shit, not jidai-geki, shomin-geki. I don't speak Japanese, I just have several similar-sounding Japanese movie terms in my head. I'll try that again.

"No One Knows About Persian Cats is a drama largely devoid of, well, drama"

Awww hell, I think that you people who hate all of her movies need to understand that she doesn't make straight dramas, which is what you were probably expecting.

Don't start with Last Mistress. Last Mistress is like, "Interesting, but . . . ."

The wost thing about Xanadu is that the ending dance sequence is really, genuinely great.

Scared of the dark. I meant scared of the dark. It's a quote from the Brit-com "Coupling" about Helen Mirren in that episode where . . .

To give the man some credit, his looney, off-the-mark criticisms of some films that he hated and I liked always ended up giving me a greater appreciation of those movies. Like, his bizarre review of "Police, Adjective" (and the blanket hatred he expressed toward all new Romanian films) made me think about that movie…

It's like her breasts are sacred of the dark.

Coming of age in the 80s, I can remember when catching a glimpse of some hot fur was still the objective.

C+
Honestly, the actions scenes are . . .

So, was Jennifer a vampire, or a werewolf, or, like, what?

I just want to have this on record:

Ahhh, Carlos Mencia. The last comedian to figure out that saying "I'm not politically correct" was the 1990s version of "What's the deal with airline food?"

I liked Read My Lips when I saw it in the theater . . . then liked it a lot less when I caught it on TV a few years later. Just didn't seem all that terrific upon further reflection.

Hey, I like some of those biopics that dispense with three-act-structure.

It's pretty obvious what the story is . . .
*Synecdoche, New York* really DOES have a story - it's the story of Ralph Ellison, Truman Capote, Brian Wilson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Mitchell and every other creative person whose early, huge successes gave way to long, long years of writer's block.

This movie is really A- good? Because those trailers look awful, just awful.

Yeah, you just started noticing them.

The problem is that movies like this don't have a "handle" - that is to say, this genre of film doesn't have a name, so audiences always come into these kinds of movies stone cold.