He made those “theater is better” statements at the same time everyone else. As I recall it, the Old Guard in Hollywood was upset that Netflix was making really good movies without Steven Spielberg’s permission, so the Studios went on the offensive. Most of the people complaining were old and established, and it made…

That seems like the quintessential Twitter joke: a super hot, bitchy take with no nuance. I don’t agree with that assessment for any of his movies except maybe TDKR. Interstellar has a weird curveball “gotcha” ending, but I wouldn’t call that “dumb.”

“Naval”?

The whole town is doing yellow face. 

Is this confirmation that the yellow characters on The Simpsons are actually white?

Sorry if I was not clear, Katie Rife’s comment was lame, not yours. It was lame and also appears to be almost directly lifted from the Washington Post’s review of the series:

Agreed, it was a pretty stupid thing to write. It says nothing about the actual subject of the film or its merits. 

And if anyone would have embraced the current movement for police reform it would have been McNamara, whose ideas about crowdsourcing investigations and victim-forward storytelling have both taken off in the four years since her death

Dude, DeAngelo wasn’t a retired police officer; he was a fired police officer. He was fired for shoplifting. 

“And if anyone would have embraced the current movement for police reform it would have been McNamara, whose ideas about crowdsourcing investigations and victim-forward storytelling have both taken off in the four years since her death.”

Again, you CLAIM to have watched the entire mini-series, yet you blatantly give…

“On a less progressive note, there’s no getting past the overwhelming whiteness of the interview subjects”

Yeah, I guess it was shortsighted for them to only interview people *actually* involved. Maybe instead they should’ve pretended that some of the victims were POC so that they could be more balanced?

JFC, it’s god…

“But in the end, he was no match for the group of self-proclaimed “citizen detectives””

Um, it says you watched the entire mini-series for review, so you know that this is patently untrue. 

I think she’s still nursing her wounds from her failed stint at the Apollo.

“This is a wonderful, melodramatic telenovela, something I would love watching for cheap entertainment, like a narco-thriller on Netflix. But this should not be called by anyone ‘the great immigrant novel, the story of our time, The Grapes of Wrath.’ Why?” Esmeralda Bermudez, LA Time book critic, when being…

“Author Lauren Groff, reviewing the book for The New York Times Book Review, found herself completely immersed but wondering whether she should have accepted the assignment.

There’s a certain school of thought that says that racism can only go in one direction, from the powerful to the powerless.

Yeah, but a lot of things that get plaudits are utter trash. It usually isn’t framed as an outrageous moral failing on the part of the honoree. Or at least it didn’t used to be, but now we seem to be eliminating the possibility that things can just suck without needing to be atoned or apologized for.

Please consider this my all-purpose FFS on these matters.

Is it a good book?

[shrug] write your own book then.