Given that the statute covers speech, text, and behavior, and given that the range of propaganda defined includes things like promotion, "allure", and "distorted picture of equivalence" (!!!), and given that "among children" is understood in Russian law to mean "anywhere children may be present", i.e. public space……

Just to give you one small example, since you asked: you seem to not actually know what the law is.  It's not just "specific forms of propaganda material": in fact, the lack of specificity is precisely why it's been construed as such a threat.   The law bans:

This is really impressive… there's literally nothing in your comment that's accurate: not the content of the law itself, or its context, or its supporters, or its applicability, or the politics of Russian and foreign powers, or the role of the Olympics, or anything about NBC.

It's good, but for me the high bar in recent sound design is still held by Van Sant's Paranoid Park, which was amazing.

I wouldn't run out to see it, but it does do some things well.  The nuts and bolts of survival are interesting enough, and there are a few rousing hairs-breadth moments on the raft, without a doubt.  The problem is that the biopic elements are really, really bland - and the hagiography no way deserved, considering…

Ha!  I forgot I'd written this a few months ago:

The sharks, I figured.  What else?

Well-played.

Best use of CGI: Kon-Tiki

Babette's Feast has an army!

Yeah, she's far better known as Dinesen in English.  Far, far better.

@avclub-501c54d131c3b93043a744af0c259c58:disqus : Yeah, I made a point of not seeing the - no need to excuse - fucking sequel.

@avclub-1982161d0fe636d1caabd47a2ac23e12:disqus : haha fair enough.  For what it's worth, I've read both La Princesse de Cleves (in French) and Bernard-Henri Levy (in English, thank god).

Yeah, you just made my day.  Ha, that is amazing!

Well… it's clear he's been listening to a lot of Kanye.

It's possible (likely?) he was assigned the movie instead of choosing it.  Either way I don't mind a critic taking on a movie he doesn't like, because negative criticism can be just as insightful as positive criticism.  The important thing is not to be lazy (which even people who love films can be, in their reviews.)

I hate Burnt by the Sun with the fire of a thousand… er, suns.   Its Russian reputation is far worse, because it was so clearly an act of self-mythologizing by the director/star, and a transparently hokey one at that.  I've never understood its critical cachet.

@avclub-1982161d0fe636d1caabd47a2ac23e12:disqus : public outcry?  Over the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?  Does the public even pay attention to that category?

Ditto.  That movie actually makes me angry.

Argh, DISQUS won't let me tag you, Mike. This is a response to you: