BY: Sonny Bunch
December 22, 2017 5:00 am
Of all the trends in year-end pieces this December, the most annoying is the one typified by the first sentence of the AV Club’s wrap up: “Bad movies were the least of anyone’s problems in 2017.” This is true literally every year—no one’s most pressing problem has ever been spending $15 on The Emoji Movie—and so fatuously self-congratulatory in our current moment. We get it, you think the United States has devolved into an authoritarian hell-scape where the weak are ground into paste and fed to the Koch Brothers’ dogs. This decrease in surplus population and the vile capitalistic use to which it has been put, I presume, helps explain why the unemployment rate is at a 17-year...