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Tara Ariano
Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:
Writer, editor, and snack enthusiast Tara Ariano is the co-founder of TelevisionWithoutPity.com and Fametracker.com (RIP). She has contributed to New York, the New York Times magazine, Vanity Fair, Vulture, Decider, Salon, Collider, and Slate, among others. She also co-hosts the podcasts Extra Hot Great (on TV); Again With This (a compulsively detailed episode-by-episode breakdown of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place); and The Sweet Smell Of Succession (about the HBO drama). She lives in Austin.
Publications:
Movies reviews only
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Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees (2024) |
It diminishes Get on Your Knees to compare it to any of Netflix’s worst specials starring male comics. But good comedy on the platform only makes the bad comedy look worse. - Cracked
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| Posted Aug 28, 2024
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Jenny Slate: Seasoned Professional (2024) |
Slate’s particular gift, as displayed here, is to wring goofiness from even the most emotionally fraught moments. - Cracked
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| Posted Aug 28, 2024
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Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen (2024) |
Brady is hilariously frank making herself the butt of jokes, while also pointing out the absurdity of the social conventions she knows she’s supposed to observe in order to be, as she frequently puts it, “normal.” - Cracked
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| Posted Aug 28, 2024
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Unfrosted (2024) |
Maybe The Lonely Island or Lord and Miller or Rogen and Goldberg would have struck the right tone of absurdity to make this story pop. But probably no one could have, because it’s too high-fructose corny an idea to work under any circumstances. - Cracked
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| Posted Aug 28, 2024
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Nikki Glaser: Someday You'll Die (2024) |
For now, at least, Glaser seems very committed to childlessness, and has a lot of excellent reasons for it. Cynicism has never seemed more fun. Or sensible! - Cracked
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| Posted Aug 28, 2024
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Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go (2024) |
Everything Must Go can be off-putting. We don’t understand why these aesthetic choices were made, and though her stories are candid, her affectations keep her from seeming particularly vulnerable in telling them. - Cracked
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| Posted Aug 28, 2024
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Jackpot! (2024) |
The way the characters’ periodic moments of attempted emotional resonance stop the action dead made a lot more sense once I found out that screenwriter Rob Yescombe has spent most of his career writing video games. - Cracked
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| Posted Aug 28, 2024
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Hysterical (2021) |
Even a comedy dabbler will, I think, find this vague mess frustrating, shallow, and amateurish. - Primetimer
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| Posted Apr 02, 2021
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