"Ree" is correct. Also known as Arikara.

Watching this, I felt like how Tarantino's critics must constantly feel: like the movie kept referencing other, better movies that only made me wish I was watching another, better movie (I think Tarantino stands on his own, but I get the criticism). Herzog is in there, Malick is in there, Kurosawa is in there (with a…

Nah, Hardy's perfect where he is - he's best in villain mode, and every time he's on the screen, the movie lights up. I don't know what actor you could successfully put in the charisma void that is the film's version of Glass - Dowd is exactly right that he's less of a character than an idea - so he might as well be…

Ugh to most of these, but especially to the description of Battle of New Orleans:

Geez, if I had a dollar for every time someone set my lawn on fire after a movie discussion…

I think you're taking this way too seriously.

It Follows was from 2014 and it's on their list (festival premiere v. release date.) Out 1 was first theatrically released in the U.S. this year, so it counts, right? A.O. Scott put it on his Best of 2015 list, so I'm following his lead.

Yeah, the final scene in Phoenix is hard to beat. I wasn't sold on the movie overall, but that was a top-notch way for it to end.

You should check out the video they did for his second song, "Sunday Candy." It's one-shot, musical theatre awesomeness.

He's going for a 21st century flâneur sort of thing, but I think one of the reasons that genre of literature has fallen out of style is that it's really hard to create a narrator who's both passive enough to let the city take center stage, but interesting enough to keep our attention.

Solaris is pretty devastating, but also quite funny - I wish we had a better translation than the two available.

I gave up during the second half. The author's note, where he admits it's a bad book and he's embarrassed by it, was my favorite part.

I hear you - it's definitely not for everyone. I think it's popular for a number of reasons:

I haven't read it yet (it's waiting patiently on my 2016 shelf), but I flipped open to the first page and immediately fell in love:

I feel similarly but I'd stack them differently: Confederacy on top, then the other three. I couldn't finish the Egan at all.

Good to know, re: Didion. I'm in the same boat (love her essays), and I have a copy of Play It As It Lays in my 2016 queue.

Not a Tolstoy fan in general, but Hadji Murat is top-notch. It's the one I recommend to everyone who groans at the weight of his Big Novels.

Kindred is amazing, and it's far from her new-agey stuff.

For what it's worth, I think the consensus opinion of Zhivago is that it's not a particularly great novel - but that the Zhivago poems in the back are in the running for greatest collection of Russian poetry ever written.

That Čapek novel may be in my top 3 books of all time (I've read it a dozen times, and it blows me away every single time), but I do love McCullers, so no harm no foul.