There's a disturbing conversation to be had here about why the corrupt judge of the real case is replaced by a justice -
loving curmudgeon — and, better, how it is that this film revolving around women's rights in the workplace is fought and won by men acting like boys, swooping in to rescue their damsels in distress and accusing one another of being girls while the actual girls sit around crying.
Not exact matches
At the risk of sounding like a social media
curmudgeon, I have a
love - hate thing with social media and there are some things I just don't understand about it.
Watching that funny duo come to understand Nanjiani's
love for their daughter (Zoe Kazan) brought this
curmudgeon to tears.
Red is the kind of lazily written, thankless
curmudgeon role that uses the trials of advanced age for cheap laughs rather than harnessing a veteran actor's talent to engage our empathy; in this sense, Red's characterization as a belligerent, prostitute -
loving coot is rendered so outlandish that the audience has no choice but to laugh at him.
Whether you're a softie who jumps at any opportunity to tell everyone around you how much you
love them, or a
curmudgeon who thinks February 14th is a holiday manufactured by Hallmark and the candy industry to make everyone spend money, Valentine's Day gets a rise out of almost everyone.
The reading world is in
love with
curmudgeons — perhaps because we all feel unbearably awkward at times — and Eleanor Oliphant, the lonely heroine of Gail Honeyman's debut novel, is the latest hit.
- Orlando Sentinel «This talky
love story will turn the most romantic reader into a
curmudgeon.»
It has all of the action, laffs and ridiculousness that kids
love, plus all the unapologetic irreverence and questionable potty humor that grumpy
curmudgeons love to complain about.