I fail to understand why those things are separate.

A plot should never be a requirement (although "American Honey" certainly does have one), but this is a film far more about mood, character, affect. Not one to watch if you're looking for a conventional Hollywood narrative. Absolutely one to watch if you want pure sensory bliss.

Yes, a silent, black-and-white French film in 2011 was totally made just to win Oscars. The same goes for a throwback original movie musical that was a director's passion project for years. Makes total sense…

I could not disagree more. "Midnight Special" is totally inert, whereas "American Honey" was the most exuberant, outsize, soaring film all year with the single best use of music.

Everybody Wants Some!! Notice the exclamation marks. Get your act together, AV Club.

It reminded me of "Orpheus" (1950) and "Enter the Void" with its first person perspective and use of mirrors.

Why do they erase Melissa Villaseñor's ethnicity? Unfortunate.

Stop perpetuating the idea that this piece of shit will be in office for four years. The media needs to start covering the fact that electorates could still vote against him and that his inauguration is not even a done deal. More people need to know this so that it can happen.

Kind of a weird joke, because Disney animated Aladdin in the most Anglicized way possible to contrast him with the offensively cartoonish Arabs that populate the rest of the film.

It wasn't that good outside of the opening. Chiding white people for protesting? Uh, Chapelle, you do realize those protests are full of people who aren't white, and it's not the white people who are most angry…?

I'm retweeted therefore I am.

You're wrong. Sierra Nevada is beloved even among the most hardcore beer aficionados. And Kellerweis stands up to the best hefes.

No mention of Ayinger? That's my favorite easily, along with New Glarus's Dancing Man Wheat. Sunshine in a glass.

The Short Film sketch was a total failure. First of all, there would be multiple short films shown at a screening, not just one. But more importantly, what on Earth was this garbage even skewering? One could say "art house pretensions," although this term has proved far more "pretentious" than the work it's supposedly…

A succubus is a misogynistic patriarchal concept born of male anxieties related to female sexuality. If this were the only questionable sketch in the episode perhaps it wouldn't seem as troubling, but using as it does the objectified Margot Robbie who appears in other sketches as an exploitable sexual avatar, it irks.

I don't know, I found both the sinkhole sketch and the librarian one sexist and groan-worthy. The sinkhole sketch is just a one-note "joke" that reinforces the idea that men have to earn certain kinds of women, and that women who are perceived as conventionally beautiful have no reason to connect with anyone beyond…

Your use of the word "ingrained" is rather fuzzy. If they're ingrained, are they not congenital?

Punctual and eager? I don't actually remember that part.

I thought the episode was hilarious. So many great lines and sight gags fired off in quick succession. "He committed nature's greatest sin: coming inside." Burns: "I've been shamed! Smithers, prepare a thimble of ice cream." And a genuinely moving one: "I thought we could save any animal if we just cared enough."…

You must have missed Christopher Plummer in "Beginners." But you still have a point.