- 2/1/13 /
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Lorrie Moore Is Not a Carrie–Brody Shipper
"They lack mutual trust or any palpable erotic vibe."
Close Reading
- 5/16/12 /
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Breaking Down the New York Review of Books’ Defense of Girls
It's here!
- 2/17/12 /
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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.
- 12/21/11 /
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The Adventures of Tintin Is a Lot Like Indiana Jones
At least according to all the reviews.
- 12/16/11 /
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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.
- 11/18/11 /
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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."
- 11/11/11 /
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Just How Awful Is Adam Sandler’s Jill Character in Jack and Jill?
Really, really awful.
- 11/2/11 /
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Coping With the Deschanel-Gibbard Breakup: Vulture Analyzes the Musical Clues
We're just trying to understand.
- 8/17/11 /
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Can The Hour Sate Your Mad Men Craving?
Mostly critics just want people to stop comparing them.
- 8/12/11 /
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Every Movie Critic: 30 Minutes or Less Should Have Been 30 Minutes or Less
Which is to say, they didn't like it.
- 8/5/11 /
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The Change-Up Is Just Freaky Friday With More Poop, Apparently
Plus schmaltz and bimbos.
- 5/13/11 /
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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?
- 4/15/11 /
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What Parts of Atlas Shrugged: Part One Did the Critics Find Most Ridiculous?
Sex! Trains! Newspapers!
- 3/18/11 /
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Matthew McConaughey Gets Well Reviewed in The Lincoln Lawyer
Pigs fly, etc.
- 2/18/11 /
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So Just How Ugly Are the Aliens in I Am Number Four?
The ones who aren't Alex Pettyfer.
- 12/22/10 /
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When Keitel Reteamed with De Niro and Everyone Was Disappointed: A Little Fockers Review Roundup
Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro try to make you forget 'Mean Streets' with something awful.
- 12/17/10 /
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The Wackiest Descriptions of Jeff Bridges’s CGI-ed Face in Tron: Legacy
"Rubbery Botox-android" and "animated death mask" among them.
- 12/10/10 /
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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."
- 8/3/10 /
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Ke$ha’s New Video Attempts to Redefine the Term ‘Hard-core’
So that "hard-core" and"glitter" are synonymous.