”...when asked if him and Reitman every discussed the role.”

Poison Ivy is the worst performance of Thurman’s career. I’m shocked it’s this high in the list. Arguably she’s worse in that movie than Arnie.

True enough, but they’re on-record as saying this version of Bruce Wayne hasn’t quite gotten to the “put on an ‘eccentric billionaire Bruce Wayne’ mask” just yet. It also seems like this Bruce Wayne is a little more anonymous, less Kardashian and more like one of Bezos’ kids. (Does Bezos have kids? Probably? I dunno.)
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It’s pivoting to a bi-monthly curated basket of snacks.

I always appreciated your reviews and I’m looking forward to reading your stuff elsewhere. Whatever my (myriad) issues with post-disqus AV Club, I thought the film coverage remained excellent and insightful. Disappointed to see yet another talented writer leave as the AV Club hastens its transformation into...I don't…

Seriously don’t understand why Barsanti gets paid to write such feeble semi-humor. Is it just working cheap and fast? Is it that AV Club chased away all the talent?

Vampires and Ghosts of Mars are both hot shit on toast.

Because so much of the motivation is about finding Sam, I would say the movie incorporates more from Uncharted 4 than from any of the others. Which is reasonable, because as you said, it’s the one UC game that put the most effort into its narrative. (And I suspect that had a lot to do with The Last of Us being such a…

100% truth. All of it. But you can tell people that until they keel over, and the vast majority won’t listen to you. You’re just an idiot who doesn’t like super hero movies. The conversation is over. I’ve given up.

I think what says it all is that to make his big passion project Coppola is spending $120 million of his own money. It’s an absurd amount of money, and it’s good for him that he’s in a position where he can do that but it says it all that Studios are not interested in taking a gamble on an original project from…

And a number of directors who, 50 years ago, might have been also making movies like The Master or Phantom Thread, are instead trying to sell us on the “personal vision” they brought to their second MCU entry or Harry Potter movie or whatever.

with Coppola, with Scorsese, with Ridley Scott

When the first promotional still dropped, and the cast looked like they wandered off the set for an Iphone ad, I instantly knew this was going to suck.

Remember when there would be hundreds of comments on a recap/review of a single TV episode on this site? And if it was for an episode of Community the number would be in the thousands? And you could look forward to a Sean O’Neal masterpiece every Friday afternoon? It’s so sad to see the AV Club going through a…

Its baffling to me the way both shitty “direct sequels” have made zero attempt at the ragged, semi-improvised documentary realism. As soon as you tell this story using more Hollywood-classical performance styles, you make it almost impossible to connect with.

Saying he thinks the entire cast is underpaid is not “speaking for them.” That’s an opinion on industry practices; he’s not directly commenting on the other castmembers’ decisions to sign on (at least not here), and while there is room to infer, it’s still much more inference than implication. Your comment comes…

It’s telling how much more nuanced the AV Club seems on this issue when the proponent of context is actually on the phone with them.

“Referencing that episode, it seems like there’s this idea that context doesn’t matter, which was a common critique about the blackface sketch, and which seems worrying”

I’ll admit that Batman Forever is probably a major guilty pleasure movie for me. It’s mostly terrible, but it has a creative garish terribleness that I find captivating. Jim Carey is having the time of his life as a villian and I kind of like how the movie boldly attempts to recreate the jolly madness of the 60's…

I maintain that Batman & Robin is much, much worse than Batman Forever. The latter has a few jokey lines—disproportionately focused on in the commentary above—and Two-Face is a waste of a good character. But it has by far the best story line(s) of any of these four films, has a well-assembled cast, does in my opinion…