Wesley Morris in The Occasions: “When Beyoncé explored love-pain, she known as her challenge ‘Lemonade.’ When Lopez does it, heartache turns into cardio, a lot of sweating and struggling and boxing and panting and heaving. You admire the form of her physique as a lot as you mourn her emotional discontent. It’s ‘Lululemonade.’” (Due to Josh Futterman, Manhattan, and Allen Tarlow, West Hollywood, Calif., amongst others, for nominating this.)
Anne Branigin in The Washington Publish: “It would definitely take house the trophy for The Most J-Lo Factor J-Lo Has Ever Executed. In it, she’s the magnetic middle of the universe: She sings, she dances, she channels all of her rom-com superpowers — she even raps. It’s her Magnum Lopez.” (Virginia Matish, Chesapeake, Va.)
Wesley additionally weighed in not too long ago on a really totally different form of performer in a really totally different form of film, appraising Paul Giamatti’s Oscar-nominated efficiency in “The Holdovers” as a profoundly — however not hopelessly — embittered prep faculty trainer: “You may measure the emotional magnitude of his righteousness by the creases, traces and squiggles that striate Giamatti’s brow. What he’s after is richer than plain fury. Sure, he can provide you Vesuvius. However right here, in essentially the most deeply inhabited, most sharply etched use to which that forehead has but been put, Giamatti has additionally situated Lake Placid and charts a course towards it.” (Bonnie Oberman, Chicago, and Doug Sterner, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., amongst others)
Sticking with The Occasions, John McWhorter had some translingual enjoyable with the primary particular person plural: “Within the Kwaio language of the Solomon Islands, the phrase for ‘we’ differs relying on whether or not you imply your self and the particular person you’re speaking to or your self and another person. There are additionally totally different phrases for ‘we’ in case you are speaking about your self and three individuals together with whom you’re speaking to or three individuals not together with whom you’re speaking to or greater than three individuals. Kwaio can go away an English speaker with we-ness envy.” (Sheldon Seidenfeld, Teaneck, N.J., and Keith Friedlander, Lloyd Harbor, N.Y., amongst many others)
Dwight Garner marveled on the author Carson McCullers’s day by day pharmaceutical consumption as described in a brand new biography of her: “The lists of capsules fill whole paragraphs. She should have rattled when she walked.” (Sally Hinson, Greer, S.C., and John Jacoby, Cambridge, Mass.)
