There’s something powerful—and, yes, stripped down—about seeing these politicians and newscasters without being able to hear their language.
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Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
24 July 2026
The group ventriloquized the voices of authority—parents, school principals, cops, military officers, judges, politicians, newscasters, Soviet apparatchiks—and turned them into expressions of mass insanity.
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Andrew Katzenstein,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
Law Kar-ying, an accomplished Cantonese opera performer in real life, stars opposite Paw Hee-ching, whose casting anchors the film’s central relationship in lived experience of the art form.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
9 Sep. 2026
The result is a restaurant that joins the Buffalo Bros sports bar and standby Babe’s Chicken Dinner House as Old Town anchors.
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Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2026
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