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"Critique is so limiting and emotionally draining." — Morf
Say this much about L.A. art critic Morf Vandewalt (Jake Gyllenhaal) — he's right about the act of criticism. It's reductive by nature, and it can take a psychic toll on the critic, who, if they're any damn good at all, worries that their zeal for identifying the essence of a work may prove inadequate, if not flat-out wrong.
The critic, for example, who sets out to critique the pleasantly bananapants Netflix film , in which Morf (look, the character's name is Morf, get over it) intones the above opinion, must take care not to leave readers with the wrong
