The fare isn’t noteworthy or unique, except for the onion soup with its madcap, enormous puff pastry lid.
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Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2026
New reads abound for your vacation tote throughout the weeks of July, with fiction picks featuring a Carnival cruise casualty, a highly entertaining jewel heist at the Waldorf-Astoria, and a Soviet-era madcap adventure.
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Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
This buffoon thinks Trump was way out of line, writes columnist Steve Lopez.
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Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Oct. 2026
The biggest name in tech, Elon Musk, gets the most outlandish performance from Ike Barinholtz, who plays the richest man in the world as a cartoonish buffoon who is arguably the only person in Silicon Valley more impatient than Altman.
The comedian’s become a regular on TikTok and Instagram scrolls for her character work — particularly impressions of her Italian father and German mother, the latter always in a black turtleneck, hair pulled back, glasses inexplicably atop her head.
Here, she’s matured as a well-rounded comedienne who can pull the stops for subtle approaches to laughs, and though the mugging is still evident, it’s only used for propitious moments.
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Hank Grant,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Sep. 2026
Impacciatore, however, is a gifted, full-throttle comedienne who makes sure Esmerelda is much more than a villain.
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