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Neither hagiography nor hatchet job, the movie casts an understanding eye on a once-infamous musical artist who weathered dizzying highs and devastating lows.—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024 No amount of mainstream media hatchet jobs can disguise those optics.—David Medina, Hartford Courant, 18 Nov. 2024 But the most shameless is Informer, a scandal sheet that features hatchet jobs and images of buxom women.—Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023 Later, the scene is recut as a hatchet job on social media that leads to Tár’s downfall.—Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023 In other words, the book is not a hatchet job.—John Tamny, Forbes, 27 May 2021 Trump supporters say the potential prosecution is a politically motivated hatchet job disconnected from the law.—Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023 Rumor has it that someone is writing a book about her life, which will be a hatchet job.—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2022 Rick Reilly’s hatchet job in Sports Illustrated, painting Bo as a coward, was merely the most infamous and casually vicious of the genre.—al, 27 Oct. 2022
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