That's disheartening solipsism for a film with a premise so scintillatingly brazen.
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The effect is of reading something almost obscenely personal, and perhaps for that reason, scintillatingly political.
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That's more than 120 minutes of visual porn: a sartorially stunning, savagely sexy, and altogether scintillatingly sinister piece, one that satisfies the fashion famished.
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The author visits high-tech facilities, a South African slum and Nepalese villages to convey, scintillatingly, what is known and what remains mysterious about the liquid.
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But what were our most popular stories, the ones most scintillatingly clicky, the ones that jumped out and grabbed your eyeballs as you thumbed through your feeds?
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Personally I've always disdained talk of a third party, mostly because the structural barriers against such parties are so high, no matter how scintillatingly attractive they seem in theory.
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It was great to hear the neglected Fourth Concerto for piano, left hand, played scintillatingly by Sergei Redkin, as well as the cryptic, neo-Classical, seldom-heard Fifth, dispatched handily by Sergei Babayan.
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Then there are the more common sense (though still scintillatingly well-informed) guidelines: Kissing definitely spreads COVID-19, so don't do that with anyone other than quarantine buddies, avoiding that and sex with them if you or they start feeling sick.
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In the unlikely event that a 21st-century reviewer could write as scintillatingly as Kael did, and that she had a movement as inspiring as the American New Wave to write about, most people would still have no idea who she was or what she said.
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Vanity Fair hailed it for its "blazing prose," which "ignites the 70s New York art scene and Italian underground." In The New Yorker, critic James Wood praised the book as "scintillatingly alive. It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures: Kushner is never not telling a story... It succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories, all of them particular, all of them brilliantly alive."James Wood, "Youth in Revolt," The New Yorker, April 8, 2013.
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American writer Julia Keller wrote in a review of the book in the Chicago Tribune that she was pleased that The Shining Girls deviates from traditional serial-killer fiction in that it does not glorify the killer. Beukes presents Harper as "greedy and seedy and opportunistic", rather than "scintillatingly brilliant and alluringly damaged". While the book's time-travel theme "stretches scientific plausibility", Keller said that the book's strength comes from Beukes's "audacious imaginative vision", and that she has made "delicate and redemptive magic" out of "something horrific and inexplicable". Simmy Richman wrote in The Independent that while the book has good ideas, it is "ultimately another high-concept novel that suffers in the execution".
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