1. I have some thoughts on that onanistic New Yorker review of The Incredibles 2, which makes more sense if you realize that Anthony Lane is a throwback to early days of the magazine.
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6. All of which is to say that Lane's review wasn't necessarily that of a dirty old man self-pleasuring watching a kid's cartoon but maybe a misfired joke: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/149209/new-yorker-offers-sex-drenched-incredibles-2-review …
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Is Lane the one who has the alarming habit of evaluating actresses' bodies? (That is, the prestigious reviewer.)
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FYI: Pauline Kael shat all over ‘You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown’ for literally no reason. Scared me for life.
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You have a generous mind, Jeet. I wrote him off decades ago.
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Georgia Brown pointed out once that Lane had a tendency to use the word ‘we’ to mean Americans. But he’s a Brit.
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His review of the Clinton/Patterson thriller is one of the funniest of this genre I've read in a while.
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