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But there is more, much more, to McKellen’s rendering of Erskine than uproariously unfettered misanthropy.
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Joe Leydon, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
The film follows a London housewife named Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) who takes her misanthropy out on everyone around her.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Returning was a heart-wrenching proposition—not least since Goggins’s on-screen persona of Rick—the twitchy, depressive boyfriend of the much younger Chelsea played by Aimee Lou Wood—shares a lot of the brooding misanthropy of his former broken self.
—Charlie Campbell / Koh Samui, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Instead of offering relief, lucidity sharpens his misanthropy.
—Stephen Kearse, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
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Joe Leydon, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
The film follows a London housewife named Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) who takes her misanthropy out on everyone around her.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Returning was a heart-wrenching proposition—not least since Goggins’s on-screen persona of Rick—the twitchy, depressive boyfriend of the much younger Chelsea played by Aimee Lou Wood—shares a lot of the brooding misanthropy of his former broken self.
—Charlie Campbell / Koh Samui, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Instead of offering relief, lucidity sharpens his misanthropy.
—Stephen Kearse, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Misanthropy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misanthropy. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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misanthropy
noun
mis·an·thro·py
mis-ˈan(t)-thrə-pē 
: a dislike or hatred of all human beings
misanthropic
adjective
ˌmis-ᵊn-ˈthräp-ik
misanthropically
adverb
-ˈthräp-i-k(ə-)lē
Medical Definition
misanthropy
noun
mis·an·thro·py
mis-ˈan(t)-thrə-pē
plural misanthropies
: a hatred or distrust of humankind
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