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This teensy brouhaha is really chilling if you actually read the original review. Unlike past "bad/gros critic" film twitter flaps, the words written about Mulligan are ABUNDANTLY, clearly just about unconventional casting -- that the reviewer is ultimately appreciative of. https://twitter.com/robbiereviews/status/1355081690255945729
An idea that is even central to the lede of the NYT piece in which Mulligan calls out said review. This is getting oxygen solely because nobody is actually reading that original review, and Variety put fuel on the fire by disowning it. Creepy stuff.
I'm out of this racket for the moment and so perhaps my opinion as a former female critic (who incidentally also defended Mulligan in print against what I would argue was actual sexism at a film festival) is irrelevant, but this whole thing is really upsetting and gross to me.
When celebrities have called out critics in the past (thinking of Ariana, Taylor, Lizzo) their publications were appropriately supportive of their reviews no matter how much people were yelling at them on the internet. (Also @senari is just smart and good at her job, so)
And it should go without saying that Mulligan is entitled to feel the way she feels about that review and take away whatever she wants from it. That's legit. But a celebrity journalist's job is ideally to provide some factual context for those feelings.
