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6/16/19

Yes, I do believe that. The purpose of a review is to let you know whether you’d enjoy a movie; the reviewer’s opinion need not align with your own in order to do this. I’ve read plenty of one-star reviews of dumb comedies where I’ve ended the review thinking, “that sounded pretty funny, I should watch that,” and…

6/15/19

That D’Angelo review sounds to me like it fulfilled the basic critical objective of a review, though obviously I’d have to check the review itself. But it explains what D’Angelo disliked about the film in a way that allowed you to decide that, despite his dislike, you might find the documentary worth seeing. It’s…

6/14/19

The difference, I think, is that we have much more of a shared (and certainly less controversial) consensus on what makes good filmmaking

6/14/19

It probably helped that Gilber & Sullivan had done so much to establish talk-singing within the English theater tradition.

6/14/19

It is the ultimate movie to put on in a kids’ play room, where the kids can have several other things to do, and every once in a while, if they want to, they can look up at what’s on the screen and watch for a few minutes. There will usually be something going on that’s reasonably entertaining, and it won’t require…

6/14/19

Part of any act of criticism is a sorting out of what works and what doesn’t. If a critic talked about how My Fair Lady or Mary Poppins feel overlong today, for instance, or that the artificial-looking sets work well for the musical pieces but detract from the parts where dramatic acting has to hold our interest, I…

6/13/19

Username/comment synergy is off the charts.

6/13/19

*plenary

6/13/19

I guess when it came down to the wire, Marchand didn’t want to take a lickin’.

6/13/19

At times it tries for the absurdist hyperrealism of Lynch—at a morning meeting of the sheriff’s department, Martin sits in silence as his boss leads everyone in a chant of “Fascism!”, then busts out a ukulele

6/13/19

When did he win that? The year before Jennifer Weiner published her first novel?

6/13/19

Wow, I can’t believe you think Sparks is the hero of the story here.

6/13/19

Yes, I absolutely want to see every weird and unexpected facet of Lewis’s world in this series. That’s one of the things that makes the books so great, how bizarre and unexpected the supernatural intrusions can sometimes be.

6/13/19

It would be hilarious if the would-be assassins turn on the drug lord, and the authorities use their testimony to arrest him, and the drug lord essentially ends up going to jail because David Ortiz stuck it to his wife.

6/12/19

Curses! Foiled by the free market again! That’s it, I vote for socialism.

6/12/19

Don’t worry, I’ve got Nevermind on CD in decent condition, and will allow Universal to burn a copy for the low price of $1 million.

6/12/19

“The best movie you[’ll] see this year!”

6/12/19

I would say, if you are part of a team that had 13 goals scored against it, there is perhaps a hard upper limit on the amount of respect you are due?

6/12/19

I hope the USWNT uses all this finger-wagging as motivational fuel to shove 15 goals up Canada’s ass in the tournament, assuming Canada is able to make it that far.

6/11/19

This comment has aged well.