A great, great film falling victim to the inevitable Tumblrization of all art in our current times, and also our hatred of any idea that people could be more complex than ‘good’ and ‘evil’. Shades of grey? Not anymore.

Sorry but I don’t want to live in a world where artistic content is dictated by the acceptable…

The real hero of this movie is Woody Harrleson’s bag.

Yeah, I feel that whatever redemption arc there is for Rockwell’s character is firmly subverted by the conclusion of the film. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that subverting and playing with audience expectation and sympathy is pretty much the film’s MO.

There’s an even better version of this movie with Dixon’s victim included, although I appreciated the parallels drawn between the casualness with which the bar man at the end and Dixon spake their evil acts.

The amount of people here saying “I haven’t seen the movie yet, but here’s what I think about it” is embarrassing.

The idea that a human being can’t hold abhorrent beliefs in one area and not continuously and permanently occupy the same place in the moral spectrum in all subsequent scenarios as a result of that is its own bizarre form of puritanism.

this whole outrage as the new and undisputed form of social currency is wearing me thin, I tell ya.

Jeez... I love film criticism... and I’m progressive... but we’re getting to a horrible social media version of the era when every single book and play was filtered through a feminist and racial critique. (Thankfully, Twitter users aren’t getting to the Marxist criticisms yet.) I don’t think these are bad approaches,…

The idea that it’s “offensive” to suggest we might see our preferred cultural targets as anything less than one-dimensional monsters is a reminder that when people say they like art that’s “challenging” and “subversive”, they don’t really mean it.

So we just have to bitch about everything now, huh? That’s fun.

“Good puppets do exactly what you want; Hillary Clinton would’ve made a great one.”

A Bittersweet Life is better than Man from Nowhere in almost every possible way. No mention of that movie?