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The Help

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On Movies & Media

My own thoughts on The Help, shared by an unlikely critic

Somebody agrees with me about The Help! “If you were to come to me and say that you were ambivalent because you felt the writing was not balanced… that you felt — like with Aibileen and Minny and Yule May and Constantine — that you didn’t feel there were a lot
11 Feb 2012
On Movies & Media

The Highlight of the The Help: The hard-of-hearing guy behind me in the theatre.

I finally saw The Help. It has such honorable subject matter that it puts a critic in a difficult place: You'll sound insensitive and heartless if you criticize it. But film critics aren't asked to consider what a movie's about so much as how
01 Dec 2011 3 min read
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