It's not a popular opinion but Natalie Portman didn't give any personality to that woman she played. (Amidala?) She never seemed like a woman in love. Maybe if you hated Hayden Christenson that was emotionally satisfying. But the character was supposed to be.

Really, when Frank went to the Kempeitai and confessed in an effort to save Ed, the show really pretty much established his bona fides as a good guy. He's got the best credentials of all. This sort of thing makes me think the real animus against Frank is that he's a cuckold. (Yes, the series allows us to think Juliana…

Childan as originally presented wanted nothing more than Japanese acceptance. Cowardice was a large part of that. But he was depicted as buying into cheating the Japanese rather easily because he was humiliated a couple of times. That just seems like a lot less motive for a personality change than other characters…

It's odd to see how many people resent Frank ditching Ed, leaving him to worry about paying off the Yakuza, after the whole series kicks off Juliana ditching Frank, leaving him to deal with the Kempeitai. It seems to me Frank was much more justified in his confidence in Ed's ability to deal with the forgery than…

This guy sounds like an asshole. Why is anyone listening to him twitter?

Since you believe Taylor was possibly lying about the rape, you believe he may have brought on the beating by his lies, and that his later murder of one of the boys may have been fundamentally motiveless. Well, the notion that school shootings are basically Bad People Doing Bad Things is the conventional one.

Fell asleep and was too bored to bother finding a way to go back and finish.

It would be a lot easier to take the reviewer seriously if he noticed how little difference in quality there is between this movie and The Departed.

Not literally true, I think…but true enough to be really funny.

Personally I lack the sophistication to identify the Holst and Wagner rip offs in Williams' scores, as opposed to the Respighi, Orff, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hovhaness, etc.

Two things stand out after reading this review. First, you'd think a professional reviewer would notice the reliance on music videos, which was very Christmas special-ly indeed. I didn't think the country music videos in Hell or High Water were all that great, and there were too many here too.

The Gift, or maybe, Midnight Mass, has Edgerton's best work I think.

It sounds like this references the number of series, but isn't the number of hours of original scripted programming important? Two ten hour series are less original scripted programming than one twenty-two hour series in one sense. Two thirteen hour series are more original scripted programming than one twenty-two…

Sanctuary and M*A*S*H I think did fake documentary episodes. Did St. Elsewhere? And the X-Files Cops episode should count here too.

The pro-God message in the otherwise inexplicable bromantic couple was pretty heavy handed and hokey.

Answer to first question: Important people don't read mail from nobodies. Personally I wouldn't even sign such a letter.

I've binged the whole thing. But I'm not finding this so obvious.

Good thing they knew ahead of time how long it would take good old Joe to get off the boat. It would have been so embarrassing if they blew up the film too.

Best to say explicitly "Christmas" was meant as an identifier as to date, not as descriptive of any emotion.

Tom Holland gave an impressive juvenile performance in The Impossible, a disaster flick about the Christmas tsunami. He was also good in a peculiar movie with Saoirse Ronan, How I Live Now, a post-apocalypse YA drama. He was a minor character in In the Heart of the Sea, a movie which I mostly liked (the framing story…