Sorry, but you folks tried to convince me an Olivia Wilde comedy was worth watching in 2019 and we all saw how that turned out. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, won’t get fooled again.

The most brilliant tweet ever written.

This is the most reasonable, factual, & respectful take I’ve heard regarding the Alex Pretti Border Patrol shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Take a few minutes & give it a listen.

the "weird/inappropriate laughter at movie theaters" thing is getting to a point where I heard two randos at MoMA talking about it yesterday

Aspiring Film Twitter doesn’t understand that a review really has little to do with opinion. It’s about reading a film—judging it by its intent and how it reflects its culture. That’s it. Slow, boring, woke, based, etc. have no place here.

In the Week in Culture, Ralph Fiennes pulls double duty, Gus Van Sant returns, Amanda Seyfried is a prophet, Mark Twain gets a new Tome, Tell Me Lies is tawdry heaven, and The Cribs still have it. https://t.co/hTAnp0qeZb

Bleak statement

In today’s @realpamphleteer, I discuss SONG SUNG BLUE, Tennessee filmmmaker Craig Brewer’s must see musical ode to the working class.

If you told me in 2004 that there would one day exist a robust popular discourse about Thomas Pynchon and Paul Thomas Anderson, I would have thought the country had become a very sophisticated and wonderful place full of supple arguments and learned interlocutors. And yet…

We posted rest in peace to the creator of the comic strip Dilbert. We received so much hate towards us and him, due to his political beliefs. We knew nothing of his beliefs, and frankly, it doesn't matter. He made a great strip, he died of cancer, it's sad, and rest in peace.

Time for a social media Bugonia.

We used to judge people for clapping in between movements of classical pieces. Now, some of you stop awards movies 29 minutes in to order to post hot takes. We ain’t coming back from this as a culture.

we always say we want our favorite directors to be successful but then they have a big movie and we’re forced to see morons engage with art they’ll just never understand

I don’t know man. I feel like One Battle After Another, Sinners and Hamnet are all great movies that don’t deserve any of this online trashing. It feels forced

Hamnet isn’t about healing; it posits that artists can’t heal because that void is central to their process. It’s a populist movie about channeling grief into the act of creation and accepting the mysteries of the universe. No wonder the legacy critics are after it.

This can’t be legal.

In the “The Week in Culture,” Bradley Cooper makes a divorce dramedy, a chimp goes apeshit on Gen Z, M.L. Rio proves her latest novel is required reading, and Swedish pop takes over the new year. https://t.co/lIPaj6akvc

Jerod penned a great piece in the Pamphleteer this afternoon about @jameszimmermann's lawsuit. You've seen him on Megyn Kelly, you've read about it on Twitter, now get it from The Pamphleteer.

In today’s @realpamphleteer, I discuss how @jameszimmermann’s suit against the Knoxville Orchestra could be a culture war turning point. https://t.co/EMIXYtijxd

I am so sick of SINNERS fans. It’s a movie about vampires. The vampires are core to its themes. IT’S A HORROR MOVIE. And it’s NOT above other horror movies. You just haven’t seen enough of them to know how emotionally and thematically deep the genre goes. Watch more horror.