Thanks to my colleague Christian Hamaker for alerting me to the fact that the Washington Post, in an article on the duds of the summer movie season, quotes a line from my review of License to Wed, though without linking to it or mentioning me by name.
Incidentally, I was reminded of License to Wed while watching Mr. Woodcock, but I didn’t mention this in my review of that film. Both movies feature a male protagonist who tries to dig up dirt on a male antagonist, and in the course of doing so breaks into his house, embarrasses himself by publicly making false accusations based on insufficient data, and so on. And both movies feature a female lead who you’re supposed to like, but she’s either so blind to the antagonist’s flaws or so oblivious to the protagonist’s concerns that you begin to resent her before the movie’s over.
JAN 1 UPDATE: My line on License to Wed was quoted again, this time as the representative “snippet of snark” in the Washington Post‘s list of the ten worst-reviewed movies of the year.
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