I saw The Lobster and Tale of Tales at Cannes last May, but that doesn't change the fact that they're opening commercially in the U.S. in the next few months. Nor does the fact that they can be downloaded illegally.

Not worth it. There's just nudity in the final scene that's not played for laughs at all, and it makes the earlier nudity seem deftly strategic.

Plug this into rot13.

I only use Spoiler Space if I actually want to write about something spoiler-y. In this case, saying that the backstory is dumb pretty much wraps up my thoughts. Not sure the site should be in the habit of revealing the twist of every single movie that has one, just to satisfy people's curiosity.

I knew that, even referred to Under Ground later in the review, and somehow still managed to screw it up. Fixed.

Yeah, I see the two as fundamentally different. If this scene were in an Altman movie we'd be half-following both conversations and seeing the characters in the back seat.

No.

I'd counted a film (Takashi Miike's Over My Dead Body) that was slated for release this year but never actually came out.

Wasn't that quick since I had to count down, but the answer is Ted 2.

Yes, though it's not in the same league imo (good rather than great).

You can't exactly blame me for that either, since I didn't know. Once I realized what had happened, I of course quickly retracted that criticism. (And yes, my overall opinion of the film as mediocre was unaffected.)

It was one scene. Not multiple key scenes. I can feel confident of that since I know the play well and would have made the same observation about any other notable scenes that I hadn't seen in the film.

It premiered at Sundance in January 2014. Wasn't released in the U.S. until this year; was eligible for our list. (I liked it, but not that much.)

2016 U.S. release.

I have it at #…[counts] 53. Which I realize doesn't sound impressive, but that's out of nearly 250 films—still very much in my "thumbs up" tier. (Had I reviewed it for the site, I'd have given it a B.)

I've seen it (and liked it), but it wasn't eligible for the list as it won't be released in the U.S. until next year.

I think you're slightly exaggerating the laudatory state of Ex Machina's reviews in general. Metacritic, for example, has it at 78, which the site designates as "generally favorable reviews." Whereas I find 42 films with "universal acclaim" just from the past 90 days, including many of the films on this list: The…

I'm one of the voters and I thought Ex Machina was pretty meh when I saw it in April. Nothing changed.

Speaking as the person who wrote the review on the site, I can confidently state that it cites this as the basis for the film's greatness, not as a criticism.

That wasn't me, for the record. The Martian is in my top 10.