As a critic put it recently, there is a large subset of cinephiles who get locked in on the *idea* of a movie rather than the actual content on the screen, and I feel like this is one such movie. It's a big crazy independent passion project and I'm happy it exists more than I am actually watching it
Greate example of getting in and locking the door behind oneself. Musk an extreme critic of allowing anyone else the chance to enjoy the system he exploited.
I walked through Musk's great-replacement-style hyperventilation about immigrants and elections to explain all the various things he got wrong. Gift link: wapo.st/3TQLL2a
The right-wing owner of X has been increasingly fervent in his opposition to a process that granted him citizenship.
One of the worst experiences based on the badness of the movie was also the funniest. LA Times film critic Kevin Thomas had given a glowing review to a film called "Hard," a "gay serial killer" movie that he heralded as brilliant and "the future of indie gay cinema" or some such. So we went…
"your outer critic is extremely effective because it's your inner critic pointed outward" yeah but why is the outer critic so fucking funny where did that come from because it's like saying Natasha Leggero is just an average German citizen pointed outward
Yes, I should take seriously the opinion of the guy behind... (checks notes) ...Duke Nukem Forever.
Hi... I didn't search on-line, but looked through the excellent book on Tracey Emin by Jonathan Jones, the Guardian arts critic, and found three images with the reversed N... which was actually fewer than I thought originally, so I must have noticed them immediately and they stuck in my mind.
In my defense I’ve been a critic of everything since 1967
NOTE: I have NOT read "James" by Percival Everett or "Martyr!" by Kaveh Akbar, before someone asks. I know every critic has those as their top-two books. I will get to them before the final list.
Everyone’s a media critic now and its tedious beyond comprehension