Ganatra and Weiss make everything feel a bit mechanical rather than an escalating spiral of craziness, and too many scenes play like montage fodder without actually taking the plot anywhere.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
Right frolics—forward, backward, sideways, in a spiral or a zigzag, going nowhere.
Ominous clouds prompted a diversion to the Trango Towers, a rampart of granite spires esteemed by big-wall climbers.
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Nick Paumgarten,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
The alpine lake sits at around 10,000 feet in elevation, and is ringed by the Cirque of the Towers—a picturesque semi-circle of 12,000-foot granite spires that has long enchanted rock climbers and trekkers alike.
There was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach.
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Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
21 Apr. 2022
In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope.
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Leo Rubinfien,
The New York Review of Books,
11 Feb. 2021
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