Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Dec. 2024
The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
So, grab your dirty pet, a clean towel and get ready to rub a dub dub, your pup in a tub!
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Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
Localization is an art, not a science, and just like there are plenty of dubs that are just as good if not better than the original, there are also shows and movies with initially terrible localization.
There’s at least one major shoe that could drop — why devote an entire episode to the Gemstone origin story if that gold Bible isn’t going to pay off somehow? — but The Righteous Gemstones loves these grotesque, dysfunctional louts.
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Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
And when someone does cross the line, like the louts who doused cops in Harlem and Brownsville with water in 2019, most officers have shown remarkable restraint.
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Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2024
Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal.
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Gemma Tarlach,
Discover Magazine,
20 Apr. 2017
Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.
View Photos The standard air springs and adaptive dampers also further the impression of luxurious, untroubled heft, even with the 22-inch clodhoppers fitted to our test car.
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Ezra Dyer,
Car and Driver,
2 Mar. 2023
Still, the Rubicon 392 is a royal handful, a bellowing musclebound clodhopper on 33-inch tires.
Buck is a loquacious, glad-handing oaf who has a boring way with a witty story, and is marked for death.
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Fred Schruers,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 2025
Hackman’s aggravation early on that directors didn’t seek out and exploit his comic and even improv talents was handled unforgettably in his portrayal of Superman villain Lex Luthor, a flamboyant oaf of Trumpian proportions.
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