Definitely. I’m usually the first guy to peter out with my clapping. 30 seconds seems reasonable if I’m ecstatic about something, but even then... dunno.

Hey, their black metal isn’t preten--. Wait. Nevermind.

Oh no I get the Cannes tradition. I just think it’s so over wrought and pretentious. It makes me kind of ill thinking about it. I can’t imagine being on the receiving end of one of them, and the people who buy into it. Oof.

A six minute ovation? Jesus. I’ve never experienced an ovation of any kind nor been to a performance where an ovation lasted longer than a minute or two at most, but that seems ridiculous and boring. What do you do after the first few minutes? Is this all just crowd dynamics —everyone assuming the role of the tasteful …

I haven’t been bothered to go see one of his films in the theater since Tree of Life, but -- despite this review which seems fair -- I’ll probably end up trying to see this one... this kind of bucolic dream smear seems more apt when it’s not coming from characters that are bored obnoxious white Americans (being one…

Sure, I’m not naive enough to expect all that much from a freshman representative, but with the nearly constant lauding from left of center press, people calling her a “hero” in comment sections like this one, coupled with the fact that she was groomed for this position in my district when she had very little voting…

I think Glover is remarkably talented. This movie doesn’t look very good though. I plan on being wrong though.

I support her, voted for her, and think the pillorying is grotesque political theater. But I can’t get behind the hero-worship of her either. She honestly hasn’t *done* enough yet. She’s said mostly the right things, but lacks articulation for someone who is required by her job description to have it (I get her…

I can’t wait for this lifetime movie. 

I don’t understand how a group of movies can cause such consternation and hurt feelings that the AVclub can keep generating articles like this. 

What a powerful musician. I guess it’s cliche at this point, but the first four songs on Nite Flights are still some of my favorite music ever. 

But... of course, their entire fictional universe is “silly,” and that’s totally fine.1

I guess I don’t see how their magical society is compatible with belief in a God. Who would need Jesus or Allah or whatever when your magic is Godlike? And while it’s fine and good to be inclusive of religious people/readers, I think it seems kind of silly in context of that world. Honestly, one of the things I…

Wait, how does having a religion work in Harry Potter magic-verse. Like you can be Christian and a wizard? I’m honestly curious.

The National is adult contemporary music.

haha, that’s very true. my bad. It may be my anti-Marsalis bias coming through. 

I haven’t seen the movie; I have no plans to. It’s easy, because this is probably the 18th version of this criticism I’ve read. It wasn’t charitable to call it “easy,” admittedly. 

So they’ll wait until it’s released?

A professor in Minnesota got reprimanded (possibly fired at this point, dunno) for using the word in context to teaching James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. The world has gone a little bit nuts.

If you want to be accurate, Shirley wasn’t a “jazz” musician. Even Bradford Marsalis stated that in the New Yorker: “Don Shirley’s music is a joy to listen to. It’s not jazz, and his approach is clearly influenced through classical training. Because he is not a jazz soloist, he has to create momentum through color and…