“They think I’m hiding in the shadows,” he whispers. “But I am the shadows.”

Dowd flourishes his cape and disappears into the dark of night one last time. Godspeed, sir. Until the critic-signal appears in the clouds again, we’ll be watching.

A.A. taking a bow with a solid B, on a superhero film no less? Now I’m real excited

I’m still pushing for a Batman Beyond movie. There's so much they could do with moving past Bruce and moving into future Gotham

a little disappointed in Catwoman’s ambiguity here (sort of the whole reason she is such a compelling character), but otherwise sounds like a good watch. 

Farewell Dowd. You and basically everyone working at this site were so much better than J/O Media deserved.

everyone’s problem with every batman movie (particularly before they see it) has always been the casting, going all the way back to keaton.

Dowd, I’m glad the last movie you reviewed for this site was a halfway decent one. I’ll miss your good work around here.

Have you seen Robert Pattinson in any non-Twilight movies?

Try as he may, the droll John Mulaney can’t save a sinking episode of SNL.  C+

Steady gig. Pays reasonably well. You’re famous but not so famous that it becomes an inconvenience.  It’s not super reliable as a platform for future success so leaving involves an uncertain future.

I think Ansari and the writers definitely knew the fictional character Tom was carrying out behavior that was wrong, but the social mores of the time were that people found it funny to show characters so brazenly being offensive (see Barney on “How I Met Your Mother” for a more extreme case). We were laughing at how…

I don’t like how Ansari and Louis CK are always compared-and-contrasted. They did different things. It’s like comparing a jaywalker to Ted Bundy.

I have to agree with the conclusion, because this:

“...Ansari seems content to hold up a mirror to everyone but himself.”

As a warning to what, exactly?

He’s accused of being a jerk, but because there was sex involved, it’s characterized as on the spectrum of sexual assault. He’s a famous actor who brought a complete stranger home from an Emmy after-party; he assumed he was going to have sex and refused to give up trying long after the dream had died. It’s extremely…

The phrase “sexual misconduct” sounds more Orwellian every time I hear it. It sounds more and more like “sexual something.” He did something wrong, in a sexual sense. It wasn’t sexual assault. It was a sort of sexual infraction. He sexed badly. It was the wrong type of sexing. He badsexed.

Ansari needs to book a parallel tour where’s always playing across the street from Louis CK. Call it the “Hey, At Least I’m Not That Asshole Tour.”

Yeah this is an interesting one. I found it more impressive as a tightrope walk than an actual comedy special (though there were still some points that really made me laugh). All stand-up is calculated, but you’re more conscious of it when it’s done in the wake of a controversy. And it puts you even more on edge when…