"Heroes" is a key word here, too, I think. Obviously I don't agree with Fey's bit as actual life advice, but I don't really think it's intended that way — isn't it a bit about feeling helpless in the face of feeling like you need to fight against something — active white supremacist marches, rather than harmful but…

YES. Even someone big like Channing Tatum, it's kind of crazy that Soderbergh just decided this guy had it. I like most actors and I still confess I didn't notice a lot of hidden depth in Tatum beyond liking his funny dumb-guy shtick in 21 Jump Street. But Soderbergh has put him in four movies and really teased out…

Don't thank me yet! The ranking may be up more like next week, now. If only we could pay ourselves to do this stuff. ;)

White Album definitely feels less mechanical in that regard. I love a lot of Green Album songs but it has the odd sensation of a record where each song is a little bit less good than the one that precedes it. I don't want to overhype it but White Album is very solid. It probably would have been tagged a disappointment…

Did you not care for last year's White Album? I think that one is, if not as good as those three, at least as good as the Green Album!

I simply mean vintage in the sense of "old." I'm actually not a huge fan of Lock, Stock although I think Snatch is his best movie by far. I actually dig Man from UNCLE a lot.

They're a great pair for that point of comparison, though — and recall an era where there was perhaps less of a gulf between genre directors and auteur directors (the former sometimes seeming in short supply today, mainly, I think, because indie directors get promoted to Big Franchise director so fast, and the kind of…

It's a tricky comparison to make, because so much of Soderbergh's work, especially in the back half of his career, depends on that kind of journeyman genre versatility and productivity but with a sheen of self-awareness about how these movies work within their genres. It's this odd, clever combination of genre thrills…

See the movie and you may be SURPRISED. I mean they still don't look alike, but it doesn't feel egregious.

Samesies (about it not being that bad, I mean… I never really thought of it as a cheap Tarantino knockoff, for better or worse):

It's sort of both! It's not as in-your-face as vintage Guy Ritchie but it is a little brighter and poppier than a truly gritty/realistic heist movie. A nice push-pull with the boundaries of plausibility.

I was more confused that it seems like the Charlotte Motor Speedway is not actually/technically in Charlotte, is that right? (I mean, I guess it's not unusual for something that huge to technically sit outside the city limits.) But yeah, I figured what with CharlottesVILLE in VA, it couldn't hurt to specify. That's my…

I'd say it's funnier than either of those (well, not the Nicky Katt part of The Limey, that's like the funniest thing in any Soderbergh outside of Nicky Katt in Full Frontal), and decidedly lighter than The Limey, but it's up there as one of his best for me. Full ranking over at SportsAlcohol.com TK later this week.

Pity that I was born too late to review Passenger 57 in its original theatrical run (or rather, curse the USA Today Junior Movie Critics program for not selecting me in the early '90s!!!).

Fixed, so I should thank you, but to be honest, I'm always a little put off by the outrage of the armchair copy editor.

Your original point was pretty stupid; you should hope lots of people obscure it. The idea that (a.) nothing about the so-called "alt right" could have preceded Obama's election and (b.) movies made before the inception of the so-called "alt right" could not influence at all is… interesting, I guess? I think it's…

Huh. Didn't know that. Interesting. So by that math, I'm wondering if "8 years in a row" is really an accurate way of describing the results of two elections.

Wow, eight years in a row! I had forgotten just how many elections happened back in the Obama years. How quickly we forget.

No, I understand. It's a bad scene. A lot of us don't want much to do with us lot either. :\

I personally find GPB a lot funnier, though I saw and liked both back in the day. Some Cusack affection helps, I'm sure (though I didn't seen Say Anything until a year or two later), but I also think GPB has a drier, weirder sensibility; I remember R&M feeling a little simpler and shtickier — not to mention how…