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there's always one random whatsit left over every time I put a bookcase together
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The villain this time around isn’t a person but an all-powerful artificial-intelligence whatsit known as the Entity, which fools a super-advanced Russian submarine into destroying itself in the film’s clever pre-credits sequence.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 July 2023
Disaster strikes when Loretta is kidnaped by eccentric zillionaire Abigail Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes to use her anthropological knowhow to recover an ancient whatsit from a remote jungle island.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Mar. 2022
That’s nothing if not a unique premise, but writer-director Cesar Cabral’s animated whatsit proves more compelling as a concept than as an actual movie.
—Michael Nordine, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
Equal parts art-house whatsit and car-fetish classic, the film works so well thanks to director Sarafian’s ability to shoot a chase, as well as his feel for the landscape.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021
The numbers of whosits and the intensity of the whatsits really does depend on who is running.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
Thirty-seven percent of whosits voting at a greater intensity than 41 percent of whatsits, etc.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 July 2023
Disaster strikes when Loretta is kidnaped by eccentric zillionaire Abigail Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes to use her anthropological knowhow to recover an ancient whatsit from a remote jungle island.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Mar. 2022
That’s nothing if not a unique premise, but writer-director Cesar Cabral’s animated whatsit proves more compelling as a concept than as an actual movie.
—Michael Nordine, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
Equal parts art-house whatsit and car-fetish classic, the film works so well thanks to director Sarafian’s ability to shoot a chase, as well as his feel for the landscape.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021
The numbers of whosits and the intensity of the whatsits really does depend on who is running.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
Thirty-seven percent of whosits voting at a greater intensity than 41 percent of whatsits, etc.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
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“Whatsit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whatsit. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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