It must have had a week-long stealth run in Los Angeles last year. Often these are deliberately unpublicized so as not to steal the box-office thunder from the "real" opening weekend around Oscar time.

I don't write the headlines. Not guilty!

I actually had both that and "dime a dozen" originally. Decided it was too much. Sorry I cut the wrong one.

It's not a can, though. Not saying you're wrong. Just saying it's clearly not a can, so that wouldn't have occurred to me.

Have seen the film, so I can confidently say that Kenny is going to find out eventually, since Dave is building a long-term relationship with Kenny's ex that includes a child. At some point, you're gonna have to tell him. Putting it off until he's released is moronic, and putting it off even after he's released by…

Please give me an example of the Idiot Plot, as employed by Ebert himself, that I couldn't rationalize in exactly the same way.

Yeah, I was trying to impress readers with my knowledge of "obscure" arthouse filmmakers. You caught me.

If you mean the voters, no. I'm mostly responsible for its being on the list (it was my #2 for the year), and I've seen literally every film Hong has ever made. This is my favorite. (Had previously been Turning Gate.)

It can be both! (But you're right. I missed that detail, possibly because I'm colorblind and red doesn't leap out at me from a distance.)

That is correct. I worded it poorly.

Just to be clear, I'm not necessarily asking for more dialogue and I'm definitely not asking for (egad) backstory. I'm asking for more emotional layers.

I did see it at Toronto, shortly following its world premiere. What's more, I have a rule about going back and watching (in their entirety) films I've bailed on if they achieve certain benchmarks in year-end polls and surveys. A Single Man wasn't that well regarded. (Unfortunately both Indiewire and the Voice do a…

Nothing to do with empathy. I feel plenty of that. But wariness and longing (and you're right, I should have noted the latter as well) are not, by themselves, a personality. Compare the initial "Little" version of Chiron with, say, the protagonist of Ken Loach's Kes (to name the first example of a great film featuring…

I wrote a review when it was released; my entry above links to it. The fun escaped me, to put it mildly.

Ooo, this is a good litmus test. Will you agree with Beamish Kinowerks about 11 Minutes? Ask yourself this: Am I the kind of person who would respond to a list item I disagree with by saying "Fuck you"? If you are, you, too, may enjoy this loathsome movie.

Hasn't yet been released in the U.S.

The Woman Who Left hasn't been released in the U.S. This list consists of films that were released this year, but which we didn't review at that time.

Thanks for the info. Any idea why he has only two IMDb credits (this film included)? Are Chinese actors generally poorly represented on the site? Or is he under two separate IDs?

I really thought it was sense.

And sense you threw down the gauntlet, game on. Red pencil my writing…I will find more errors in yours.