Carey Mulligan: The Actress Who Crushed a Critic

Because we live in the age of stupid, a period of hair-on-fire hysteria when you can, for instance, lose your job for allowing your thumb and forefinger to meet, I suppose it shouldn’t surprise us that a writer’s job hangs in the balance for the crime of writing something he didn’t write.

Dennis Harvey is a 60-year-old gay man who has written film reviews for Variety for 30 years. Last January he reviewed a Sundance Film Festival offering, Promising Young Woman, that wasn’t put in general release until December. There was nothing particularly noteworthy about his piece, which was somewhat mixed but mostly positive in its analysis of both the film and its star, Carey Mulligan.

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Kyle Smith is the film critic for the Wall Street Journal.

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Because we live in the age of stupid, a period of hair-on-fire hysteria when you can, for instance, lose your job for allowing your thumb and forefinger to meet, I suppose it shouldn’t surprise us that a writer’s job hangs in the balance for the crime of writing something he didn’t write.

Dennis Harvey is a 60-year-old gay man who has written film reviews for Variety for 30 years. Last January he reviewed a Sundance Film Festival offering, Promising Young Woman, that wasn’t put in general release until December. There was nothing particularly noteworthy about his piece, which was somewhat mixed but mostly positive in its analysis of both the film and its star, Carey Mulligan.