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While she and his working mom (Sarah Snook) are initially seen as culprits, the boy’s selfish father (Jake Lacy, who played similar roles in the dire Moriarty adaptation Apples Never Fall and The White Lotus) turns out to be the guiltiest party of all.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026 -
The compression of knowledge into transferable principles turns out to be the key to generating the incompressible richness of reality itself.—
Amir Husain,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Cleans (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleans%20%28off%29. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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