Has such respect for its audience's intelligence. At one moment we see Robert Stack's character attempt to go into a bookstore in Warsaw to place a photo within a book that will identify the Nazi hiding within the resistance ranks. Due to the heavy Nazi police force, he's unable to make it inside. We then cut to Carole Lombard going inside the bookstore and placing something inside the book. She leaves, and then we see that the photo of the…

It has scares and dread but I walked out of Talk to Me without a clue as to what the filmmakers were trying to say about the myriad of themes the film has. This combines a basic addiction story with a lazy grief/trauma backstory before getting to mental illness, all without ever having anything interesting to say about any of these things. The third act completely folds in on itself in service of giving the audience that twisty last image.…

It's fine.

That might sound dismissive, and with all the hype and positivity around this movie it might seem like a purposefully deflating sentiment. But that was truly my initial reaction to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As a movie, it's fine.

Maybe that's all devoted Star Wars fans needed to be satisfied. Just don't fuck this one up, fans were thinking. They didn't. They actually did a lot of things extremely well, like create really rewarding and charismatic characters.…