Much has been said about Bella's plain-Jane persona, but Stewart's earnest performance vivifies the character with a plucky yet lovesick duality that also grounds the film's lofty fantasy sequences.
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Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
Lane, who is relentlessly serious and ambitious, gets complimented for being more grounded and intellectual than Gala.
And recent challenges around tariffs, for example, have sliced profits even thinner.
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Tovia Smith,
NPR,
30 Oct. 2025
Made in minutes in the skillet with only precooked cornmeal, water and salt, the corn cake’s fate is to be sliced partway, then stuffed with whatever appeals.
—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Oct. 2025
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