I’d go a bit further and say what they’re missing is a movie review site that has earned the sort of trust you want to have in your movie criticism.

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The pairing of Jepsen and Hanks was likely conceived to play off of their nice person personas.

“Greta Gerwig cut a fart -”

It’s kind of incredible that the review lacks a single mention of either “Get Out” or “Us”. The scenario and satirical targets of this movie seem to “borrow” liberally from both.

3 comic book movies > 1 toy movie, got it.

Ah, a huge spoiler for The Great season 3, which was released 6 weeks ago. Thanks for that...

As usual, enough nuance to kill an elephant.

And right when stories written by women by black writers, trans writers and queer writers are starting to emerge, they want to hire robots to mine stories from the past 100 years.

From where I sit, Pixar has the same problem as most popular films, TV and books written in the last 5-7 years.

I can see nothing about this show that is sci-fi.

Oof, maybe AV Club just shouldn’t do political analysis.

> Write “Best movies” list

And while Boogie Nights is fairly unassailable, his first foray into feature filmmaking was the scrappy 1996 Hard Eight [...].

And they’re pointing to Bodyguard as an example of emotionally complex characters?!

The Color Purple hit theaters on Christmas Day.

I know it’s not really the reason, but Rachel Zegler saying she did Shazam 2 because she really needed a job was an odd choice for someone promoting a movie.

I’m describing bad criticism. When I call it paint-by-numbers, I’m critiquing the criticism as facile and uncreative.

That was also my takeaway. Her analysis sounds like my least favorite flavor of modern cultural criticism, which is more or less that everything isa symbol for some Larger Cultural Conversation and the author’s own views on it. Like every single line of dialogue and action must be read as making some distinct…

Really doubling down on your super fresh take that “Survivor is ACTUALLY just a game”, huh? You did this in your post last week, and it was just as dumb then.