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Here, Mercury is all about quick thinking and mental agility, as if your brain were on fast-forward, jumping from one idea to the next.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 27 May 2025
Still images captured by photographers at the bottom present a confusing tableau, as if a giant has tipped a box of action figures out onto the hillside, bodies are upside down, or airborne sideways, and limbs are flailing everywhere.
—Don Riddell, CNN Money, 25 May 2025
The movie oscillates between forms—a dramatization of therapy, a cockeyed meditation on family, a two-hour sitcom—as if searching for a new creative frequency.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
Making the move from animation to live action, Brad Bird directs the film as if the medium made little difference.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2025
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 27 May 2025
Still images captured by photographers at the bottom present a confusing tableau, as if a giant has tipped a box of action figures out onto the hillside, bodies are upside down, or airborne sideways, and limbs are flailing everywhere.
—Don Riddell, CNN Money, 25 May 2025
The movie oscillates between forms—a dramatization of therapy, a cockeyed meditation on family, a two-hour sitcom—as if searching for a new creative frequency.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
Making the move from animation to live action, Brad Bird directs the film as if the medium made little difference.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2025
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“As if.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/as%20if. Accessed 22 Jun. 2025.
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