My daughter snuck a few minutes’ worth of a peek at the movie while we were watching it, and then whipped this out with her Duplos:

What’s great about both those moments, too, is how naturally they fit into the demands of the action movie. Max “giving Furiousa permission” to use the rifle would have let the tension out of a scene where the characters are supposed to be literally seconds from death; having him wordlessly provide his shoulder as a…

Miller uses CGI the way it should be used; to augment practical sets and effects. I don’t care how advanced the technology is, full landscapes or sets still look distractingly like video games.

Two and a half years later, this movie still leaves me breathless. I saw it seven times when it first hit theaters, an eighth time when it came back in IMAX 3D, and a ninth when the black & chrome version got its brief theatrical release. If it ever comes back to theaters, I’ll go again. I love when films can elicit a…

Killing Angharad is one of the ballsiest and nastiest things I’ve seen in a long time. As you note, it’s timed brilliantly (the audience is still digging that thumbs up). But the knife twist is deeper — why do we think she has immunity? Because she’s pregnant. If only on a story level, we are valuing her not as a…

This was actually worse in the original cut, where the alien monster takes his mask off and shouts at the camera “DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO A TOAD WHEN IT’S STRUCK BY LIGHTNING?”

I think it would only be fitting that if this series somehow ends up as a large book it is used by Matt Damon to break a dude’s face.

Fury Road is the most emotionally gratifying action movie I’ve ever seen. So many action movies would be vastly improved by even one moment as powerful as Nux’s final “witness me” or Furiosa realizing the paradise she promised Joe’s harem didn’t exist anymore. And yet Fury Road has several of these moments, every one…

Yeah, if Tom publishes A History Of Violence as a book, I’m buying it immediately.

As much as I’d love a sequel and as much as Theron deserves another go at her most iconic character, I think we’ll be okay if one never materializes. I’d definitely not want to see one done by another director. And in a culture where almost every even sorta successful property gets sequel-ed and bled for every…

I realize the publishing world isn’t what it used to be, but if this series somehow ended up as a large book with some multi-page photo layouts and maybe some filling-out of the also-rans, I would pre-order my copy as soon as I was able and probably pre-order a few copies for friends so I could make their year.

I normally don’t notice things like editing in movies I like, it’s usually only something that stands out to me when it’s noticeably bad and confusing. It’s a testament to the greatness of this movie that the editing actually stood out to me in how coherent the action scenes are. You ALWAYS know where all the vehicles…

The first time we see Immortan Joe, we see his repulsive back lesions. Then we see his underlings putting plastic armor covered in fake medals over that mottled skin. And we see Joe standing before the people he’s oppressing, bellowing, “I am your redeemer!” As luck would have it, Donald Trump declared his…

Tom’s writing is so shiny! So chrome! While Kinja AV Club has become MEDIOCRE.

A seemingly endless series of indelible images, and some of the best action ever committed to film. An instant classic. Mad Max: Fury Road is the only movie I have seen twice in the theater in the last decade. I just watched it on blu-ray for the first time in preparation for this column, and I don’t know if it was…

I’m having a hard time understanding how, since I doubt you’d stoop so low as to talk to a homeless person, you’re privy to their secret and nefarious sympathy-garnering getting-tripped-over conspiracy.

How do you accidentally step on the person? Do you walk around all day tossing your hat in the air like Mary Tyler Moore?

You’re a sad sack of shit.

“Why don’t they just move to somewhere they could get a job?????” - every American problem-solving brain genius

We should consider the horrifying reality that, to most Americans, “the homelessness problem” does not refer to the suffering of the people who are living on the streets; rather, it consists of the inconvenience of having to look at them.