When Scorsese first started floating his premise years ago I was a little cynical, I enjoy the MCU films but I definitely saw where he was coming from. And since then the MCU films have proven him correct with increasing regularity. It’s really more disappointing to see what used to be a stacked site for film…

Scorsese is 80 years old, and it galls him to know that the Marvel films through Avengers: Endgame represent a signature cultural event in the cinema of our time. When Marty is gone, and an entire body of work steeped in the belief that toxic masculinity is the organizing principle of the cosmos is reassessed, it…

Yeah, this is just the author couching flaccid criticism of Scorsese in Social Justice lingo to try and sound deeper than whatever the point seems to be. Like we’re not talking about nuanced takes of masculinity like Scrader’s films that can oftentimes feel like they’re elevating bad men. The men in Scorsese’s films…

Did you all see Silence?  NO ONE saw that movie, and it was pretty freaking sublime.  That’s some good stuff, Marty.

This site used to be such an important voice in film and television. Very sad to see where it is now.

Literally, what the fuck are you talking about?

The person writing this has no perspective. No historical insight. They think everything viewed through the prism of box office is the only thing that matters. Yes. Major movie studios used to make more movies aimed at adults. Yes, more people used to see more adult themed movies in movie theaters. One can definitely…

This reads like Ray Green’s version of the Jerk Store comeback.

Holy shit who wrote this the Disney PR department? 

This is genuinely one of the most rancid, thoughtless articles in the history of the AV Club. It is antithetical to what this website used to be. G/O Media should do us a favor and shut the whole fucking thing down.

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Honestly, the roasting this piece is getting on Bluesky right now is some of the best stuff I’ve read today. But still not worth the pixels this take took up.

This was obviously written by someone who had their brain scooped out and before the top was sewn back on a rat shat in the cavity, and then they went straight to work.

Scorsese continues to get funded at a scale superior filmmakers like Coppola and Altman could only dream about.

This sucks dude.

Not even going to read this. A lot of effort spent on Martin Scorsese (Marty?) and none on for example the recent loss of Terence Davies. You don’t give a f  about cinema anymore, av club.

I know this place isn't a hivemind, but saying the Irishman is a snore and linking to a review that gave it an A minus is certainly something. 

Someone suggested it’s going to be for a Super Bowl spot or something. That makes a lot of sense, especially since Seinfeld has done stuff like that without the entire cast. Maybe he just hasn’t asked Julia yet.

I’ve feared this day since Seinfeld went off the air twenty-five years ago. Jerry’s gone mad with power. Soon he’ll be forcing everyone at gunpoint to dress like he did: with large sporty sneakers, snug jeans, and a dress shirt so comically oversized, even Wayne Knight could run laps inside it.

bruce willis was always the coolest movie star and this slow degradation is heartbreaking. i’m just gonna pretend he went out on top in 2011 with looper and moonrise kingdom and then retired.