Yeah, I'll go on record saying that Antichrist is a really well-made film.

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Wow. That Wet Hot American Summer review is just…wow.

In his recent review of Straw Dogs remake, he indicated that he would have rated the original more highly if he were to see the film today. However, I think that in one of those reader question responses he addressed the general principle of re-reviewing as a definite no, basically because he's written too many of…

The aliens at least looked kinda cool. What I didn't like so much about it was that it ended up being a high-budget version of Left Behind.

Oh, and also in the "Ebert got it wrong" line—the guy panned just about everything David Cronenberg ever directed, until the D.C. movies got boring in the 2000s. If Rog thinks something is "icky," he rarely gives it a fair consideration.

Oooh, this could become the "Ebert got it wrong" thread…

I grew up in a radically conservative area of the Bible belt, but in our family station wagon we had a copy of Ebert's 1995 Video Guide, which I read spasmodically over and over again. He was the first adult I had the pleasure to "meet" who would admit openly to liking a movie (say, anything by Russ Meyer) solely for…

I was glad to see this explained, too. In the middle of an internship, I was too busy to visit the site for a while, and when I came back and every other comment referenced Dawes, I had to just keep quiet.

Hear, hear.
(Just got done student teaching at a prison. Not kidding.)

Cronenberg, however, has demonstrated that when he wants to do straightforward, non-weird storytelling, he can do it. M. Butterfly, for instance, is about as level-on as you can get, given that the story has to do with a spy who's in love with a man who he thinks is a woman and then who has sex with a man who he…

Georg Cantor, too, had his doubts. Cantor falls into the "brilliant but insane" category, however, so this comment tips the scale neither way.

That's *snow* clap…

If NPR has an admiring review of it, then you just know it's sexxxy!

I thought they were pretty balanced in their personal goodness/bitchiness ratios, but my wife walked out of the movie really hating Michelle Williams's character. I wonder how one's gender might impact such viewer judgements.

I went to see this tonight, and I thought it was kind of awesome. If you've ever seen the old movie of "The Andromeda Strain", that's pretty close to the tone: a few characters in there to advance the plot (what there is of one), but everything in service to its exacting demo of Science at Work.

I like hipsters, though I don't have time to be one.

Remember James Caan in Misery? James Caan looking like he's never internalized a thought in his life in Misery? Did no one ever tell him he looks more tough than sensitive? Mrs. Caan, no one?

This has something to do with backwards causality: if Paul Rudd had not committed to an interview at this site, then the movie would be better, and thus consequently would have gotten a higher grade. Capiche?

Some of the bravest child acting of all time. I'm surprised every time I see this guy in public and realise that he's, in fact, mentally competent.