Best movie review

Originally Posted on The Yale Herald via UWIRE

The best movie review is a review of Horrible Bosses 2, penned by Stephen Holden in the New York Times. In his touching review of what many are calling the “Citizen Kane 2” of fall 2014, Holden voices his immense admiration for the film, calling it, “one of the sloppiest and most unnecessary Hollywood sequels ever made.” An English major from Yale’s Class of 1963, Holden showers the review with his lovingly arcane Ivy League vocabulary, employing phrases such as, “disgracefully slapdash farce,” “cheerfully raunchy,” “twinkling levity,” “hateful gorgon,” and “nasty repartee.” To close his glowing review, Holden compares the film to the pride a child feels when he first accomplishes a truly remarkable achievement. He says, “it is the Hollywood equivalent of a rambunctious little boy pointing to the toilet and squealing, ‘Mommy, look what I made!’” I’m no English major (I’m more interested in fonts and letterforms, rather than they ideas they form when placed next to one another in sequence), so I don’t understand most of his sophisticated jargon, but when I saw the movie myself, it certainly made me Laugh Out Loud. For those of you already planning your Oscar Best Picture ballots, look no further than Horrible Bosses 2, starring Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day. Any film with this much praise is bound to win.

 

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