Yeah, it's a hackneyed critique.

That digital ballroom sequence really drags it down, I think. I played video games in the early 90s that looked better.

I can't totally enjoy the 2006 Casino Royale because I can't watch the drowning scene.

I don't see any of this stuff. I use an ad-blocker to remove the right sidebar entirely, I guess that's where it appears? In the main news feed I'll see whatever crap people comment on, but that's nothing to do with Facebook, that's just third-party crap that's shared there.

The A.V. Club

Not even a smidgen. Which is the right decision on one hand, as it would be extraneous information, but contributes to this movie being pretty flat and forgettable on the other hand, because it keeps the whole concept of alien arrival at an intellectual distance.

I can see them as legs, but much shorter legs than in the model. I like it, it's a good look.

I hope you're being sarcastic.

"Outside of the Civil War, World War II, and including 9/11, this may be the most cataclysmic event the world has ever seen."

Just because she's wrong about a political candidate 20 years on doesn't mean that Bitch wasn't a great, progressive song. No reason to throw the good out with the bad.

That's… scarily possible.

I'm glad to see it used pejoratively, at least.

Even though he's objectively a manifestation of the alt-right, here in Austin he has a lot of "leftist" acolytes. I see far too many Infowars bumper stickers around town.

I have a PhD in History and am 32.

The problem with this tired discussion is that it supposes that things were ever different, and they were not.

I just thought it was flat and perfunctory. Nobody had much depth and the story was all on the surface. The core idea about the importance of communication is old hat, and I wasn't intrigued by the gestures toward non-linear reality. It's like every other low-key prestige sci-fi movie, but less so.

I'll make a point to see Moonlight in particular!

Right, and there are very few scenes in court, and most of those are not the famous case but the fallouts from the initial arrests. It's a dramatization of a famous couple, but it's not a courtroom movie.

That's really not quite accurate. It's a needless scene, but it's not a supervillain scene. The actor pauses often and delivers it as if he's trying to convince himself. The idea doesn't go anywhere, though.

The Handmaiden is great, it's like The Remains of the Day on speed. Loving is a vegetable movie, but effective and humane. Arrival is pleasant enough, but ultimately thin and disappointing.