Aw, we’ll miss you. I’m holding out because, you know, inertia.

The little peak around the corner like “did they buy it?” Hathway does after ending her damsel in distress charade is just perfection.

I rewatched Dark Knight Rises last night and Hathaway brings so much to the movie as well as dragging both Batman and Bruce out of his isolation. I love how she is able to switch her personality completely between innocent and badass with just some facial expressions, no need for a Selina with a bad demure wig.

Damn dude, he wasn’t at any point trying to invalidate any of your opinions, he just asked a simple, good-faith question. You made a comment about Pattinson being a watered-down emo goth, and he wanted to understand where that comment came from; the source of that comment was unclear, and like Jesse, the only…

Farewell Dowd. You and basically everyone working at this site were so much better than J/O Media deserved.

Mulaney had an affair that was consensual. Sure it’s not a squeaky clean look but it’s a lot different then drugging and rapping multiple women.

and now he has a kid which for some feels like a betrayal

Personally I believe his appeal is that he’s funny and a brilliant joke writer but I guess I am wrong and it is actually the made-up persona you’re bizarrely attached to that is arguably not even tangentially related to his actual existing artistic output.

I think it’d be much funnier if he’s like “Hey I can help you on this case” and she’s like “No thanks, I’ve seen your courtroom work. But sure, let’s fuck.”

Agreed. I’ve got no idea what these guys think it is that’s gonna make it change the world when it just seems to work like a normal bank only much, much worse. It’s like the South Park meme:

I mean...

Always nice to hear when someone you thought was just another celebrity/actor turns out to be a thoughtful, intelligent, socially conscious and/or genuinely decent person. Especially when so many stories break about the opposite being the case, and especially when they’re as delightfully unexpected as this example.…

BONG

This is my favorite AV Club saga of all time and I am so delighted by this comment

Unfortunately true. I feel like during the switch to Kinja when everyone was saying how this would kill the community, someone on the tech side explicitly told us “you guys represent like, 2% of the site’s traffic.”

Truly, it’s the end of an era...

On this site, I often barely noticed the grade before diving into the review. It’s not like they’re highlighted in 80 point font. They read more like “okay, here’s a summary of what I thought about the movie, good, bad and otherwise. Oh, and a letter grade because I have to.”

Hey folks. I just wanted to drop in and say thank you to everyone here for all the kind words, and also for reading what I’ve written at The A.V. Club these past nine years. I know I wasn’t always the most consistent presence in the comments, even before the Kinja transition, but I dipped in fairly regularly, and for…

Attempting to encapsulate all of a movie’s qualities with a one-byte letter grade has always been ridiculous. The world would be a better place if film reviews never contained letter grades or star ratings or any other kind of numerical summary.

In retrospect, Iron Man 3 was a continuation of my biggest problem with the MCU: they turned Iron Man into a sentient deus ex machina. The bulk of the movies were a series of problems being solved by Iron Man inventing whatever needs to be invented to solve the issue, with absolutely no difficulty. This trend…