That's fair. I think it earns the happy ending (and I actually find the final few moments really affecting), but I completely understand people who think the ending's too pat, especially given that it does emphasize difficult choices and sacrifice for so much of the story.

I'm going to be sad to see this go, thanks for doing this for seven (!) years.

An F? That's not an F.

I'll have you know that at Barnes and Noble we sell it for the full $6.99!

I don't get "mad that this exists" from the review, I get "frustrated with narrative incoherence and bored by the rest of it, especially as it goes on for over two hours."

Prince of Egypt would like a word with you.

I honestly think it manages an admirable balancing act: it has cool action, it's genuinely funny, and there are moments that actually show the weight of this horrific situation without making the movie be an angsty slog. Not to mention the trick of "how to keep raising the stakes when the story is about repeating the…

Yes, I was hoping we'd get an I.V. review of this!

"Edge of Tomorrow is excellent" is a hill I will die on.
(Repeatedly.)

Well now I know what I'll be reading all weekend instead of writing my thesis.

I'm so upset with myself for prioritizing sleep over seeing Silence with some friends, thus missing out on it during the incredibly short time it was here.

Red Turtle's hitting our arthouse theatre this week! I hope it swings by you too soon.

It had a limited theatrical run in New York specifically to qualify, as I recall.

They sent us free preview passes for this at work.

The thing is he's never respectful of her boundaries; he basically ignores the whole contract and at one point ignores it when she safewords. There's minimal lipservice to the idea of consent and nothing else.

Dang O'Neal, that Radical Jack summary is a thing of beauty.

Did the English release rename Xuanzang?

Maybe I just absorbed the title from that somehow!

I love B99, but I don't think it's about cops so much as it's having fun both being an example of and poking fun at media about cops.

I mean, the biggest example I remember of him doing that was him deliberately making the point to Giardello of "this is what you want, me railroading this poor guy who has no idea what's being done to him, this is what you and the whole system are doing, abusing a poor black man to protect a bad cop." He counts on G.…