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The epitome of low-budget high concept, this impressively sustained but often irritatingly overwritten real-time exercise features an ever-assured Johnson as a streetwise young traveler and Sean Penn as her very loquacious cab driver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

As such, it can feel irritatingly artificial and insubstantial — beneath the philosophical and literary veneer, there’s not a whole lot going on.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2023

Although it sold 84 million copies in print worldwide, The Da Vinci Code received mixed reviews when it was published in 2003 with Mark Lawson in the Guardian describing it as "irritatingly gripping tosh".

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2022

During summer, this probably indicates overwatering, though it can also, irritatingly, mean underwatering.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2022

Irritating, and irritatingly familiar, like something she was supposed to remember but couldn’t.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart




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