A dreary list, a compendium of the mediocre and the overpraised.
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"It makes me angry to be so overpraised," he tells me of the attention.
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He was a little distrustful of me at first because he felt that I overpraised him.
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They've overpraised; they've underpraised; they've dwelled too long on imperfections that hardly deserved the molecular scrutiny.
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During its first act, "Young Man" had me thinking that it had perhaps been overpraised during its early outings.
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Phoenix's live-wire work alone makes "Joker" an intriguing film, if one that has been conspicuously overpraised amid the irrational exuberance of film festivals.
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Normally, that would be an intense snoozefest that would lead to me whipping my cell phone across the room because it was being overpraised.
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Director will go to del Toro; it should go to Nolan for an achievement in "Dunkirk" that was initially maybe overpraised but is now underestimated.
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And if some films were overpraised for their deeper meaning — Halloween is not nearly as substantial as people seem to think it is — at least we're taking horror seriously.
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None of this is to say that TV is or isn't better than the movies, or that certain TV shows aren't overpraised, or that the conversation around television can't become overbearing.
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The sci-fi universe wandering game No Man's Sky got a vocal and sizeable negative reception after a portion of players felt it overpraised with hype and pre-release advertising but didn't deliver ultimately with actual gameplay.
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Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B+. Keith Uhlich of Time Out New York named Step Up 3D the third- best film of 2010, arguing that it "[one-upped] the overpraised stereoscopic advancements of Avatar." In 2020, Uhlich named it the tenth-best film of the 2010s.
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Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "American Graffiti is such a funny, accurate movie, so controlled and efficient in its narrative, that it stands to be overpraised to the point where seeing it will be an anticlimax."Canby, Vincent (September 16, 1973). "'Heavy Traffic' and 'American Graffiti'-Two of the Best".
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It's a very good album, but unless you are in love with everything this band does, you might find that it is definitely a bit overpraised. Again, that's not to say it is a bad album at all, but I'm not handing out the awards for it yet." New Release Tuesday's Kevin Davis wrote that "Suburba is an album like nothing else you will hear today...Suburba is hooky, ambitious, and dripping with honest, candid emotion. This is what a rock record is supposed to sound like.
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Over the next 30 years, he produced his major work: A Dance to the Music of Time. Its twelve novels have been acclaimed by such critics as A. N. Wilson and fellow writers including Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis as among the finest English fiction of the twentieth century. Auberon Waugh dissented, calling it "tedious and overpraised—particularly by literary hangers-on".Alan Watkins, Brief Lives with Some Memoirs (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982), 197 Long-time friend V. S. Naipaul cast similar doubts regarding the work, if not the Powell oeuvre.
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During this period, some Republicans felt that Palin was being unfairly attacked by the media. Timothy Noah of Slate magazine predicted that Palin's acceptance speech would be "wildly overpraised" and might end speculation that she was unqualified for the job of vice president because the press had been beating her up for "various trivial shortcomings" and had lowered the expectations for her speech. On September 3, 2008, Palin delivered a 40-minute acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that was well received and watched by more than 40 million people. The Palins and McCains in Fairfax, Virginia, September 2008 During the campaign, controversy erupted over alleged differences between Palin's positions as a gubernatorial candidate and her position as a vice- presidential candidate.
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