I may or may not have kept rewinding so I could listen to her say "Cremwell" over and over again.

I've always suspected that the protagonist of at least one of those cozy mystery series is actually a serial killer and is just pinning the crimes on other people around the town. Call it the Jessica Fletcher Effect.

Agreed. It was disappointing that Lanny got sidelined for that storyline. Plus, Lanny might have had his quirks, but he wasn't 1/10th as irritating as the brother.

Germany submitted Labyrinth of Lies. They did have Victoria on their shortlist, but I read somewhere that they clocked (seriously, like with a stopwatch) the amount of time that English was spoken in that movie, and it came in literally seconds under the Academy's cutoff, so they probably didn't want to take the…

Yeah, when people are saying that they read the same thing in other reviews, I think they're thinking of his dispatch from Cannes for the Dissolve (the content of which was inevitably spread around in comments sections and the like) and not realizing that it was the same reviewer.

They didn't. The scene is definitely there. I don't know how Mike missed it, but he did.

I didn't read any other reviews that mentioned the second meeting being cut: only D'Angelo's review here and his earlier dispatch from Cannes for the Dissolve. I'm really curious now if other people made the same mistake (because the meeting is definitely not cut). Do you happen to remember any of the ones you read?

I don't think that's the case, because Mike said that the scene was omitted when he saw the movie at Cannes, and they obviously didn't show a truncated version there. I did think it was weird that I didn't see any other reviews mention that the sequence was cut (since you'd think other critics would have pointed out…

He really didn't seem that into the kiss, did he?

If I recall correctly, that poster had him standing against a plain grey(?) background. At least this version has a kitchen background. I wonder how long it took someone to say about the original, "Hey, maybe we should think about this one a little more."

Keen Eddie remains her career peak after all these years. She was amusingly bitchy in that one.

I'm not sure why, but it seems odd to me that they changed almost everything about the documentary for the remake, but still kept the fact that it takes place during a specific election in Bolivia, a real country. I guess they wanted to keep the story "grounded" (rather than taking it into a Duck Soup direction), but…

I did laugh at Zapata's "I don't want to eat cold pizza in your loser-ass apartment."

It makes him seem seriously unstable. Not in a "doesn't play by the rules and gets results!" way, but more of a "possible danger to the FBI and the public at large" way.

The dynamic between Jane and Weller is so weird that the romantic angle is legitimately creeping me out. He seems so intensely focused on her almost all the time, and she frequently seems almost unnerved by his interest in her. The whole thing just makes me kind of uncomfortable.

I would ordinarily point to Redford, since this is the sort of thing that he really seems to love (earnest political dramas that critics and audiences tend to greet with a collective yawn), but he's not a producer on this one.* So, yeah, I guess someone thought they were aiming for Oscar, because it's not like anyone…

This is exactly how I feel about Christopher. I can't watch David Sutcliffe in anything ever again because all I see is that piece of shit Christopher. Even seeing him in photos makes my blood pressure rise.

Luke nonchalantly pushing Jess into the lake and Jess being more confused than angry is one of my favorite moments of the whole series. It's their relationship in a nutshell.

You'd think that Weller's superiors would eventually demand that he ditch the neckbeard.

Oh no, I actually liked Calvary a whole lot. I just thought Gillen was awful in it. It's your classic "good movie, bad performance" situation, but at least his part was pretty small.