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Debating the best movies of 2008. (9) - By Jeannette Catsoulis, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Dana Stevens, Jessica Winter, and Stephanie Zacharek - Slate Magazine
slate.com - 1/7/2009
Debating the best movies of 2008. (9) - By Jeannette Catsoulis, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Dana Stevens, Jessica Winter, and Stephanie Zacharek - Slate Magazine
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Dear Dana, Lisa, Jessica, and Jeannette, Let me add to Jessica's heartfelt defense of Step Brothers . I also think that picture works as a response to, more than a clueless example of, the Apatow-style man-boy comedy. (Though that's not a blanket condemnation of Apatow—I love Knocked Up and like ...
Debating the best movies of 2008. (1) - By Jeannette Catsoulis, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Dana Stevens, Jessica Winter, and Stephanie Zacharek - Slate Magazine
slate.com - 1/7/2009
Debating the best movies of 2008. (1) - By Jeannette Catsoulis, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Dana Stevens, ...
— slate.com — Dear Colleagues, Thanks so much for joining me for this, Slate 's 11 th annual Movie Club,... our chance to kvell and kvetch about the films of 2008. Movie Club always turns out to be my favorite workweek of the year. After the mad onslaught of December ... Debating the best movies of 2008. (1) - By Jeannette ...

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Termite Art — We're with you Jessica (and Stephanie too!): " And somehow I doubt I have much company in advocating for the mostly maligned Step Brothers. Comedy is subjective, of course, but there's some feral pocket of my frontal lobes that wonders how it's possible to resist a movie in which the great Richard Jenkins...delivers a rousing speech about how he always wanted to be a dinosaur when he grew up. ....Step Brothers strikes me not as the cynical nadir of the Judd Apatow-associated trend of manboy movies but as an ...

You Can't Turn Plastic Into Gold
Carpetbagger — ... about the ’08 season, including an encomium to Clint Eastwood’s face from Stephanie Zacharek. At a time when plastic surgery seems to have severely limited the ability of certain actors to convey genuine human emotion because their faces can’t respond to the impulses of the host, or the director, Mr. Eastwood “owns that face.”

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