Sometimes it’s pretty clear when golden ages end, and who ended them. Thanks for all the great work, Noel.

“He gave us this!”

“(with Pattinson still potentially having some more at-bats)“

Batman viewing hoods as Lay’s potato chips? “Beat you can’t beat (to death) just one!”

Thanks for keeping this going for so long and at a consistently great level of analysis, criticism and advocacy. I’ve found movies — or more often, given movies a shot I would not have otherwise — because of your writing on them. It’s been comforting to know that every Friday, either When Romance Met Comedy or one of…

Ah, those were the days.

Paxton and Cameron would’ve been great. I can see Paxton as sort of a grounding agent for Cameron as he gets increasingly tech-heavy, still retaining a character actor who can be offbeat but always 100 percent real.

There was a fair amount of terrible commenting I think (Beth Ditto interview, anyone?) but in terms of music, Noel Murray’s Popless feature alone started and encouraged more great discussions of music than most websites will ever see. 

Reading the AV Club when it was in print? What a Pathetic Geek Story!

I really like how the last time we see Hawke in Boyhood, he’s giving advice again and it’s somewhat questionable, but Mason is old enough to register that now — he listens but you can tell he’s not going to necessarily take it to heart. He’s wiser with age, in this moment Hawke is not (although like you say he’s…

I’ve told this story before, but when a group of us saw this in the theater I (the only guy) thought Jesse was more at fault and the women all thought Celine was more at fault, which I thought was pretty indicative of how well Hawke/Delpy/Linklater nailed the dynamics there. I know in my case I was watching Jesse and…

“I’d like to see it go on until Jesse and Celine are old, and then, when the day comes that one of them passes”

Counterpoint: Grades got us the sadly forgotten “War Horse good” meme after it got an A-, so they are good. War Horse good!

“but is a necessary part of most broad-interest entertainment sites’ (flawed) ecosystems and perfectly fine to put up with if it allows good writers and critics some breathing room on the more interesting stuff, which for a long time I’d maintain that it did. But, doesn’t seem like management is willing to hold up…

Thanks for all your great work over the last (holy shit) nine years, not just on the reviews but in features like Palme Thursday and in the overall movie writing on the site. Even after the AV Club lost a lot of its big voices, this was a place to find good writing on stuff that wasn’t tied to the hyped release of the…

It’s like how Franklin does have to deal with being in a wheelchair in a world making that actively difficult, but he’s also an annoying asshole! Which is to say, human.

It’s really good! Tommy Lee Jones hunts del Toro, many people are shot and knifed. A much more stripped-down and brutal Fugitive. Anyway, I was joking about how if you squint it could be a werewolf flick and goofing on the actual movie where del Toro transforms into a horrible ravenous beast, Fear And Loathing In Las…

The final knife fight in The Hunted kicks so much ass. It’s a great movie, as is Bug, but neither of them have a Fuck House -- I don’t know why Jade gets such a bad rap.

What about that one with Benicio del Toro, where he plays an unstoppable feral killing machine? You know, The Hunted?

“the callous, casual violence is replaced with standard spectacle.”