I don't want to give too many details because of spoilers, but I don't think the movie validates anti-witch hysteria. In fact I think the moral center of this movie is more radical: it posits witchcraft as a legitimate response to the puritanical assholery of the times.

Wright already made a movie set in the present day: Hanna, which I think is really underrated.

"Worryingly"? That's a weird choice of words. Refn is anything but erratic - Valhalla Rising, Drive and Only God Forgives are three of the best movies of the last decade.

There's also a weird thing where he sometimes seems to be trying for humor (like in the plastic plant bit), but those parts are just as funny the rest of the movie, which he intends to be serious.

If you listen to the commentary track, it's abundantly clear that M. Night is deadly serious about this movie. I love this insane, hilarious movie, and what makes it so wonderful is that it's pure camp created by an auteur who thinks he's making high art. This is the kind of filmmaking magic that can only happen by…

I was going to make the exact same comment. Both A Simple Plan and (the underrated!) The Gift amply show that Raimi can do a lot more than the kinetic stuff he's best known for.

This seems to be a highly divisive film - I appreciate the argument made here in favor of the movie, but boy it did not work at all for me. There are long stretches of (I assume) improvised dialogue between awful, awful characters, and I could not wait for terrible things to happen to all of them. Keating's most…

Holy shit, I grew up right by Wright-Patt, and my dad worked there for many years. What an exceptionally boring place for a movie! I'm not sure whether to be proud that my horribly dull birthplace is being represented onscreen, or just depressed that Hollywood has apparently run out of settings for movies.

That's a fascinating interpretation of the ending. I hadn't thought of that.

I'm one of about 7 people who really liked The Devil Inside, so I'll be watching this. Yes, I'm the reason these movies get made - apologies in advance.

I think the ending is more ambiguous than that. It's not clear that they won in any conventional sense. I do agree, though, that the movie is morally queasy: perhaps her suffering WAS worthwhile. The ethical center of the movie is… skewed, to put it mildly. I think that's a feature, not a bug, but YMMV of course.

That's a reductive view of the original film - the message is definitely not "torture is awesome."

I'm impressed that you watched every French horror movie ever made just so you could make this comment. That's dedication.

The original is one of my favorite movies of all time. There's absolutely no need for a nicer, gentler remake.

Everyone should know about McNairy after his amazing performance in Killing Them Softly - he's so good in that movie.

Altered Carbon is a really enjoyable science fiction noir - it's like Neuromancer plus a lot of gratuitous violence, which is always a good thing. If they do it right this'll be a whole lot of fun.

This is a good movie with exceptionally clever production design. If you don't like horror movies, fair enough, but Unfriended is a genuinely novel genre movie, which isn't something you see very often.

I don't understand the entitled demand for GRRM to finish the next novel quickly. When fans demand their entertainment asap they get garbage like Jar-Jar and midichlorians. I'm more than happy to wait until there's a good finished product… and I'd rather have no book than a shitty, rushed book.

Damn, I was hoping this would be an adaptation of Renny Harlin's masterpiece Mindhunters, a ridiculous and nonsensical film that I dearly love

Yeah, there's a really weird anti-critic streak among the AV Club commentariat - critics that give well-balanced grades (ie, grades where C is the median, as it should be) get lambasted. It's strange - there are tons of places to go on the internet if all you want is positive ratings for every movie. Why hang out on a…