If only I had a younger sibling and had heard hours of Raffi songs with which to make my anti-Raffi judgments.

Yes, I agree, a lot of commenters at the New AV Club do seem to hate reading articles.

May I make you a mixtape of maddening talking/singing toy jingles on a loop? I want to be able to tell you to stop trying to be so damn cool when you shut it off after 90 seconds.

I like that your rage is based on the premise that it's EXTREMELY hip and smug when a kid likes the Beatles, the Beastie Boys, or David Bowie (some of the most popular music acts of all time) — or They Might Be Giants, no one's go-to choice for the hippest indie music in the room. I don't think anyone in this piece…

There's also some neat character animation in Storks. I ultimately didn't love it but at least there's some personality to the way the characters move. Not so for this one.

There's some satisfying gangsters-on-KKK violence.

Right you are.

Can't wait for the Affleck version of BLACKHAT.

What about getting shot in the head??

Yeah, I was under the impression that this movie was opening in NYC and L.A. on 12/25 (as that was the plan at some point) but when I found out it was L.A.-only on 12/30, the review was pushed back. The release plans for this movie have been… less than clear.

There was some confusion about the movie's actual/final release date (it's 12/30 in Los Angeles only for a week, and then wide at the end of January).

Green Room and The Fits are both on Amazon Prime right now, I think.

Oh, there are definitely lots of references in La La Land — I just mean that it's not a total pastiche the way some of those Rain/Cherbourg descriptions imply (the final number also has some stuff reminiscent of the movie-within-a-movie number in Rain).

I wasn't a huge fan in 2012 and I'm not a huge fan now (it's my least fave of his four movies as a director) but I definitely don't hate it.

I mean, if they're about facts (e.g., "it's my opinion that the Earth is flat"), sure. But you initially asked why someone wouldn't say "the real reason other people didn't like this movie as much as I did is: I was wrong."

Steel yourself for ROCK DOG.

I haven't played the games. But I'm going to say yes.

I found it interesting but ultimately it didn't completely land for me. C+ isn't that low of a score! It's just a middling one.

I liked Moana a lot! It was in the running for slots 11-15 on my list; there were literally about 20 movies that could have gotten in those spaces.

I forgot that Hail, Caesar! wasn't on the proper list — that was a second title of mine that wasn't, so I really should have shouted that one out. Very funny and still somehow surprising.