Here’s a sentence I did not expect to write in 2016: Kevin Costner turns in a credible performance.

Well-written, acted, photographed and scored, Mississippi Grind is no gamble.

With a screenplay that was conceived in what will undoubtedly be remembered as the blackest night of the creative lives of the four writers who contributed to it, Green Lantern may well be the most punishingly idiotic superhero movie since…well, I’m going to have to go back to the pocketful of box office kryptonite that was Supergirl.

Here’s a drinking game for all you kids looking to get loaded in a big hurry tonight. Head over to Rotten Tomatoes, start reading reviews of Buried and every time someone uses the word “claustrophobic,” take a shot. See, I got you started with one right there. While you’re at it, take one for every review that mentions “Hitchcock,” too.