Welcome to Crosstalk, wherein A.V. Club writers discuss their varied (or unvaried, as the case may be) perspectives on a pop-culture topic. This time, with the first half of 2026 firmly in the ...

Our film critics on blockbusters, independents and everything in between.

We're meant to see this as an example of individual strivers joining together and "sticking it to the man"; but what happened was closer to a "dog-eat-dog scenario", and many of the little people were ...