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Small wonder that although the statue is expressive of Jordan’s signature, physically sprawling move, one leg is as stiff as a pharaoh’s, his feet are weirdly flat, his jersey is pooched as if a possum were wriggling inside it.
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Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2025
The tonal whiplash you experience at that point, the sense that Barbarian can be genuinely terrifying one moment and weirdly funny the next, is what transformed the film into a cult hit.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shopping and a weirdly high body count.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
McKean gives his all with the performance, becoming, weirdly, one of the scariest villains in the franchise.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2025
The tonal whiplash you experience at that point, the sense that Barbarian can be genuinely terrifying one moment and weirdly funny the next, is what transformed the film into a cult hit.
—Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shopping and a weirdly high body count.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
McKean gives his all with the performance, becoming, weirdly, one of the scariest villains in the franchise.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Although no publicly available evaluation has classified Stines as mentally deficient, a number of coworkers and friends interviewed by state police said Stines was acting strangely in the days leading up to the shooting of Mullins.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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Stealerium, strangely, is distributed as a free, open source tool available on GitHub.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
4 Sep. 2025
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Artem Bolshakov/iStock / Getty Images Plus TikTok users were quick to weigh in on Wilson's video, with many finding the décor both hilarious and oddly appealing.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Just weeks after a previous UFO turned out to be a drifting hot water heater, their second mystery fizzled out just as oddly.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
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So, Orange County in the late 1970s and early 1980s seems a peculiarly unlikely place to have a hardcore punk rock scene.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Aug. 2025
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Earlier this year, a titanium mine was slated for construction on the edge of Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, an unusually diverse ecosystem that is home to some of the country’s most pristine wetlands.—
David Gelles,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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The film’s unusually long running time of 174 minutes would likely have required its images to be pretty heavily compressed to fit them onto a 66GB disc, but 100GB will hopefully give the remaster room to breathe.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Weirdly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weirdly. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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