The South Korean government patrols the sea along a contested line to keep the north from fishing. Then of course people like you gloat about reports of hunger in the north. As for the threat that supposedly justifies an endless siege, the only country that has used nuclear weapons is the US. It really should be…

Is it really ethical to go to a country under economic blockade, something designed to inflict the maximum misery possible upon a civilian population in the hope—-never before realized—-that it will lead to their revolt against the government and its replacement by a regime approved by foreigners, with the sole…

Your ballot only has two candidates? You are in a bind.

Upvote for noticing HRC isn't the devil.

The difference in quality between The Shallows and Non-Stop very likely has something to do with the difference in the quality of the script.

I'm pretty sure Smurf put her into J's bed. The cupcake was an acknowledgement of Julia but the accompanying command was only implicitly a threat.

I think Baz is afraid of information J carries to Smurf about his home life, either wittingly or unwittingly. J himself he seems to like well enough. So although he wants him away from his home base, sure, let the kid go to the strip club. None of them are taking him seriously or troubling much to see him as an…

From the review: "a cliff (the movie) slips straight off of whenever Keanu Reeves, as a shady motel manager, shows up to break the art-horror spell."

It is highly probable that all the reviewers are well aware that a C score is a notably low score, since it is rare to assign D or F scores. And that the C score was meant as such. As to the question of whether one thinks it at all reasonable to rate Free State of Jones lower than almost anything else out now, it is…

He was in the movie enough to disturb the reviewer. It's not like Reeves' mere existence irritates anyone, is it?

One nitpick with the OP: Lothar in the movie wasn't precisely Dick Tracy territory, he was a direct copy of Rondo Hatton, who commonly played heavies in thrillers like The Spider Woman Strikes Back.

It's the part about Barnes hitting people is really good for them that doesn't make sense, not the notion that Mark may understand how losing it can lead you to violence. And I'm not just concerned with the plausibility but the entertainment value of all this hitting (or killing…kicking or clubbing can inflict fatal…

The movie is the capstone to the series. The Dixie will rise again motif is more clearly expressed I think in the first aired episode, Train Job, where, sure enough, the space ship goes rising up at the right moment in the dialogue.

PS As of 7:30 Sunday June 26, AV Club ratings say the only movie worse than Free State of Jones is Central Intelligence. AV Club always has a tendency to fix on the currently trendy cliches but this is so weird one is inclined to think it symptomatic of political, not literary/dramatic, sensitivities.

EW themselves listed their rating in a quick guide box as "SKIP IT." So I'm pretty sure that metacritic is wrong in calling it a "50." And judging from the comments early in the thread this review was pretty successful in convincing people it would be bad. A lot of comments sounded like people who had no intention of…

Judging from the number of guns at that woman's cabin (two rifles and a pistol) I'm pretty sure the initial cache was home supplies. And they were explicitly being given support in food and information from people otuside the swamp. I assume that included some weapons at one point. There was some later dialogue about…

I don't track reviews. I see the ones in AV Club and Entertainment Weekly and they're both negative.

If this had been Hannibal, Sidney would say "What a cunning girl you are." And others would point out what she did too, without being prompted. I'm still seeing Megan wanting Mark to do this. But pretending otherwise gives a good righteous excuse to confront Donnie that didn't require confessing to trauma.

I disagree. I think that BS about white savior was invented by that woman over at io9 who was pissed the white people did the perp walkt at the end of Avatar. Fake left "critiques" are a favorite gotcha for wingers.

Followed up by They Died With Their Boots On, wherein Errol Flynn as Custer marches into the Little Big Horn to save the Indians from the whites.