First up, while people are revelling following the verdict, the emotional intensity of reaction can be traced to a sense of loss.
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Callum Booth,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
Key speeches are faithfully delivered to an audience of two, not thousands; a scene of soldiers destructively revelling on a bridge is given a different spirit by ironic, out-of-time horseplay.
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Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 Mar. 2025
From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.
The first adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s infamous novel since Matt Damon and Jude Law cavorted around Italy stars the phenomenal Andrew Scott as the title character, Tom Ripley.
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Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2025
Relationships will be put to the test as couples cavort with singles in a tropical paradise.
All the dancers make their way inside eventually, with the elderly Bolger doing his best to gambol along with them.
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Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
The new brand’s packaging and visual identity – created by Mexican artist Francisco Herrera and featuring a winged spider monkey — evokes Kahlo’s exotic style, as well as her love of these monkeys, which once gamboled around her garden.
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