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Making the most of his spindly body and LaGuardia High School–bred smirk, Chalamet uses his inescapable boyishness completely to his advantage, bringing an immature audacity to the classic in-over-his-head operator.—
Joe Reid, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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In the opening stretch, as young Pat fights the power, we’re touched by the actor’s boyishness, still clinging to him at fifty.—
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The men handling their maleness was interesting.—
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Fact is Bruce Springsteen has forever been a man of the people, a man in search of his own definition of his maleness and his humanity.—
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“Mannishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mannishness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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