Over on his new IndieWire blog, Todd McCarthy has a go at Jean-Luc Godard's latest, Film Socialisme, noting that it elicited an empty reaction set from him — neither provoking, amusing, stimulating, intriguing, infuriating nor challenging. Sight unseen, but based on descriptions of the movie as well as wading through a couple of Godard's last several films, I have to say I would most probably be inclined to agree. There's a difference between works that are abstruse, but leave one a bit gobsmacked and leaning forward, and the punishing hectoring of a brilliant but mean-minded auteur.