That’s old news.

I recall even reviews for Rubicon noting how great he was in that and on stage compared to how terrible the films he directed were.

You misspelled “Staten Island”.

I’m with you on Mudbound. I also think it was a problem that Carrie Mulligan’s character is the lead, when the more interesting story is that of the sharecroppers.

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Ignatiy, you’re probably my favorite writer here, but you shouldn’t take that long in a movie review to get to the movie you’re reviewing. Maybe that could be in a For Your Consideration piece.

I rented it digitally, but that was right before the Oscars rather than shortly after it was nominated. I briefly considered seeing it in theaters, but wound up seeing Uncut Gems instead due to worrying that my aversion to the comedy of discomfort would result in me repeatedly pausing it if I watched that at

Iran also got into the comedic criminal-poses-as-cleric subgenre with Kamal Tabrizi’s The Lizard.

That show had a good Brendan Fraser performance, but was otherwise way too long and indulgent.

People confuse them with porcupines, which are rodents.

Epimenides.

I am the evil twin of a Wes Anderson fan, because Yorgos works much better for me. At least in his English-language films.

It’s a variation on the Cretan liars paradox.

I knew John Landis directed Thriller, but I did not know about Scorsese and Bad. Or maybe I heard once and later forgot. It appears he did that around the same time he directed The Color of Money, which definitely seems like a paycheck film. I believe it’s also the only sequel Scorsese directed.

And he’s fully clothed in that short video, unlike other parts of the Huckabees shoot. Plus there’s the incident of getting in a fight with George Clooney, and what Amy Adams has said about American Hustle.

I don’t get it.

Yorgos Lanthimos has the best eerie deadpan dialogue.

Maybe current French filmmakers aren’t trying to emulate the old French New Wave?

I’m guessing you didn’t see Her Smell. She was great in that.