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Aug. 29, 2016
What Did Rihanna Whisper to Drake at the VMAs? An Investigation
“That was funny”? “That wasn’t funny”? “That was fucked”?
By
Jackson McHenry
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Feb. 1, 2013
Lorrie Moore Is
Not
a Carrie–Brody Shipper
“They lack mutual trust or any palpable erotic vibe.”
By
Amanda Dobbins
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May 16, 2012
Breaking Down the
New York Review of Books
’ Defense of
Girls
It’s here!
By
Amanda Dobbins
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Feb. 17, 2012
Evaluating
The New York Review of Books
Anti–
Downton Abbey
Essay
One “problem”: Downton Abbey is supposed to be in the North of England, but it’s so obviously filmed in the South.
By
Willa Paskin
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Dec. 21, 2011
The Adventures of Tintin
Is a Lot Like
Indiana Jones
At least according to all the reviews.
By
Margaret Lyons
Dec. 16, 2011
Tom Cruise Is ‘Cocky,’ ‘Emo,’ and He ‘Looks Like a Maniac’ in
Mission: Impossible
But hey, at least he did a lot of his own stunts.
By
Margaret Lyons
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Nov. 18, 2011
Robert Pattinson Seems Pretty Familiar With Kristen Stewart’s ‘Fancy Moves’
“I mean I didn’t actually want to have sex with him on set.”
By
Amanda Dobbins
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Nov. 11, 2011
Just How Awful Is Adam Sandler’s Jill Character in
Jack and Jill
?
Really, really awful.
By
Margaret Lyons
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Nov. 2, 2011
Coping With the Deschanel-Gibbard Breakup: Vulture Analyzes the Musical Clues
We’re just trying to understand.
By
Amanda Dobbins
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Aug. 19, 2011
We’re Not Saying
One Day
Has a Twist Ending … and Neither Are These Critics
Or how to talk about something you can’t talk about.
By
Adam K. Raymond
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Aug. 17, 2011
Can
The Hour
Sate Your
Mad Men
Craving?
Mostly critics just want people to stop comparing them.
By
Adam K. Raymond
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Aug. 12, 2011
Every Movie Critic:
30 Minutes or Less
Should Have Been 30 Minutes or Less
Which is to say, they didn’t like it.
By
Adam K. Raymond
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Aug. 5, 2011
The Change-Up
Is Just
Freaky Friday
With More Poop, Apparently
Plus schmaltz and bimbos.
By
Margaret Lyons
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June 30, 2011
Beyonce’s All Grown Up, and Other Observations From
4
’s Reviews
“If anyone can make a quiet Friday night come off like an open-bar blowout, it’s Beyoncé.”
By
Amos Barshad
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June 30, 2011
Critics’ Best Backhanded Compliments of Michael Bay and
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
“The funniest, best-executed film in the Earth-protecting robots-that-look-like-cars-and-trucks series … [is] as head-slappingly stupid as ever.”
By
Willa Paskin
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May 13, 2011
Is Poop Funny? Is Christopher Hitchens Wrong? And Other Key Questions Posed by the Reviews of
Bridesmaids
Are women now equal to men, thanks to this movie?
By
Margaret Lyons
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Apr. 15, 2011
What Parts of
Atlas Shrugged: Part One
Did the Critics Find Most Ridiculous?
Sex! Trains! Newspapers!
By
Amos Barshad
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Mar. 18, 2011
Matthew McConaughey Gets Well Reviewed in
The Lincoln Lawyer
Pigs fly, etc.
By
Willa Paskin
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Mar. 11, 2011
Three Things Other Than
Twilight
That
Red Riding Hood
Can Be Unfavorably Compared To
Renaissance fairs, burning man, M. Night Shyamalan.
By
Willa Paskin
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Feb. 18, 2011
So Just How Ugly Are the Aliens in
I Am Number Four
?
The ones who aren’t Alex Pettyfer.
By
Willa Paskin
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Dec. 22, 2010
Keitel Reteams with De Niro and Makes Critics Sad: The
Little Fockers
Review Roundup
Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro try to make you forget ‘Mean Streets’ with something awful.
By
Willa Paskin
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Dec. 17, 2010
The Wackiest Descriptions of Jeff Bridges’s CGI-ed Face in
Tron: Legacy
“Rubbery Botox-android” and “animated death mask” among them.
By
Willa Paskin
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Dec. 10, 2010
The Craziest Descriptions of Angelina Jolie in Reviews of
The Tourist
Including, but not limited to, “an alien and an impeccably attired mannequin” and “live-action version of Jessica Rabbit.”
By
Willa Paskin
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Aug. 3, 2010
Ke$ha’s New Video Attempts to Redefine the Term ‘Hard-core’
So that “hard-core” and”glitter” are synonymous.
By
Willa Paskin
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Apr. 22, 2010
You Don’t Know Jack
Poster Suggests You Do Know Jack
And he is a bad guy.
By
Willa Paskin