I've seen the film several times, plus just rewatched this scene closely, and somehow never picked up on that. Well done.

Thanks for the correction. I was overly confident I'd have at least heard of any Hollywood remake; should have checked just to be sure.

Thanks. (Click that word.)

The grade on this is wrong at the moment. Should be B, not B-.

Since people are dogpiling the Gone Girl comparison, let me note (as I so often do) that I don't write the headlines. Didn't and wouldn't call this the "original Gone Girl." What I did say was:

Pretty sure he was calling himself a contrarian, not me.

Well, that and the specific comparison I made in the review, above, regarding the unexpected structural reveal that punctures what had appeared to be a mystery and transforms it into something else.

That and The Duke of Burgundy, as yet unreleased.

I'm glad to hear that the Scooby-Dooness was at least intentional.

He's directed two shorts, according to IMDb.

Also I did not use the word "vastly." I don't write the headlines. (On Letterboxd I called it, more moderately, "a big improvement.")

It was really eye-opening—I'd do it every year were it not such a huge pain in the ass logistically. The year was 2007, so I saw (just for example) No Country for Old Men without knowing it was the Coens, as their credits were at the end and I'd spent a year in advance avoiding all movie news. (Correctly guessed it…

I'm embarrassed to admit that I've never seen The Professional. Planning to rectify that soon.

It's like barely mentioned in the start and I think that's the last you hear of it.

I love all three of those films, for the record. But I laughed.

Lolita does not celebrate the relationship between Humbert and Lolita. At all. It's a genuinely complex work of art. This film, I contend, is not.

I knew nothing about this film while watching it. Didn't read anything until afterward. In fact, I always strive to know as little as possible about movies in advance, to the point where I never watch trailers unless forced to at a theater (I still have no idea what Interstellar is about) and once managed to see every…

Yeah, I object to the content. How unorthodox.

If this were the story of a wholesome relationship between an adult and a child, there'd be no problem. But it's a romantic relationship. Unmistakably. The fact that they don't do anything sexual doesn't ameliorate that much.

Same jerk-off, actually (me). And while I realize it's satisfying to ascribe unusual grades (if B+ rather than A can really be deemed that bizarre) to forced contrarianism, that honestly is not the case. I'm not constantly seeking to stand out from some crowd. I'm just expressing my viewpoint, which in the case of Pers…