“You deserve to be recognised for giving one of the top five best leading actor performances of the year, but one of Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Jackman, Joaquin Phoenix, and Denzel Washington pips you to number one” doesn’t strike me as especially cutting. It’s not like ranking acting performances is a precise sport…

Completely agreed.

Malice is more than that. It’s she was lying and knew she was lying and lied with the express purpose of causing harm. Which, given that the article under review didn’t offer any specifics that tied the abuse to Depp, harm is pretty much bullshit.

The juror did not apparently believe that she was abused.

To be fair, it’s probably more about which actors are willing to return rather than which story is more compelling.

To be fair, the posters invariably have “James Bond” and/or “OO7” in big writing alongside the title. It may yet prove that “A Knives Out Mystery” isn’t officially part of the title either.

Seriously, what a terrible way to introduce the game’s aesthetics.

Nonsense. This is the exact same situation as describing an interaction between two women and needing to structure your sentences in a way that clarifies which she is which in any given usage.

And how does everyone know so much about the on-the-ground events of Infinity War and Endgame?

Oh, I’m sure they can afford it, but it will probably now cost them significantly more than if they’d renewed before the original deal expired, hence the “kicking themselves”.

You don’t understand. It’s just Twitter’s poor video compression that makes it look like a 15+ year old game lacking in anything resembling artistry.

So you’ve got to assume Paramount execs were getting very excited about fast-tracking Top Gun 3, right up until the moment this suit was filed. Assuming Maverick did do enough to beat the cut off, would they now be kicking themselves at not have renewed the copyright anyway, or would Maverick’s existence extend the…

George R R Martin? I kid (sort of — the lack of “mathematical” structure in such a complex work is very likely a big part of the reason that he ended up tying himself in knots), but tons of writers just wing it. Often they will have a general sense of where they want the story to end up, but sometimes they just write…

You’re correct, this article is not the place.

I think it’s more that it’d be nice if some Trek followed that model, or if it has to be different, at least be good. I’m no purist (Deep Space Nine is the only Trek I’ve ever loved), but Discovery and Picard were absolute shitshows of truly dreadful writing (or at least they were before I gave up on them). I’ve not…

Rise of Skywalker struck me as a clear attempt to get the most toxic Last Jedi haters back onside, seemingly at the expense of basically everyone else (and all good storytelling sense). It backpedals so hard that you kind of have to assume Kathleen Kennedy and/or JJ Abrams are themselves toxic Last Jedi haters.

That seems like a hot take, but the competition is so weak that even though I didn’t think much of The Last Jedi, I can’t come up with a strong reason to disagree.

The chase is pretty incoherent. Weirdly so, considering it’s basically a race down a straight stretch of highway.

Oh sure, you’d absolutely want both some high level tracking and diverse voices involved, but it’s this system specifically that seems to be overcomplicated.

Yeah. I would say the biggest failure is in thinking you can quantify these categories numerically.