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"Gladiator II is equal in scale and spectacle, and weighted with metaphor, but it’s also shot through with the kind of wry, absurdist slant that’s come to dominate Scott’s work of the last decade and a half," wrote Clarisse Loughrey.

However, Slant says the film "tries to be a lot of things, only to end up being about very little" and it's also been accused of using "tropes of trans stories" by Empire.

The two connected again on fourth and goal at the one-yard line as Cooke caught a quick slant to increase the Cougars’ lead to 21-8 with 11:30 left in the second half.

“Fox News has pro-Bush slant, film asserts,” Chicago Sun-Times, July 17, 2004.

"Emilia Pérez was originally intended to be an opera, which perhaps partly explains its saccharine sentimentality, repetitive lyrics, and diverging story branches. But that doesn’t excuse its almost random, whiplash-inducing tonal pivots," said Slant's Kyle Turner.