{"id":172048,"date":"2025-11-04T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=172048"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:19:23","slug":"rotten-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/rotten-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotten Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-172049\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/screenshot-2025-10-23-at-105029-1024x716.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/screenshot-2025-10-23-at-105029-1024x716.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/screenshot-2025-10-23-at-105029-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/screenshot-2025-10-23-at-105029-768x537.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/screenshot-2025-10-23-at-105029-1536x1073.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/screenshot-2025-10-23-at-105029-2048x1431.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the\u00a0<\/i>Review\u2019<i>s site. Often we\u2019re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you. Here are some we found this month.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>\u2014Sophie Haigney, web editor, and Olivia Kan-Sperling, assistant editor<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From A. S. Hamrah\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9781635902686\/last-week-in-end-times-cinema\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last Week in End Times Cinema<\/span><\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Semiotexte)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a daily bulletin of movie news:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>April 28, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selling point of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is that it doesn\u2019t require any \u201cMarvel homework\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WBD and Amazon \u201cmay have unknowingly\u201d used North Korean companies for animation work on two of their TV series<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studios have begun hiring some directors based on the Rotten Tomatoes scores of their recent movies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kalshi, a financial exchange and predictive-market company, offers a betting product for Rotten Tomatoes scores. \u201cNow anyone can make money by being a movie critic,\u201d is how they sell it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WBD CEO David Zaslav\u2019s $49.7 million salary is more than the entire operating budget of WBD\u2019s Turner Classic Movies, flagship channel of American film history<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of reporting subscriber numbers, Netflix will use a new metric they call \u201cFandom,\u201d which is based on how many people watch trailers or parts of trailers on their platform.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOver six billion impressions every month,\u201d they claim, as if that means anything<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comedian\u2013<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfrosted<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> director Jerry Seinfeld says \u201cthe movie business is over,\u201d replaced by \u201cdepression, malaise, confusion\u2014disorientation.\u201d This succinct, not untrue statement has got him mocked on social media<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s last film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sc\u00e9narios<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, completed the day before he died, will debut at Cannes, then be distributed and sold by an NFT company, Roadstead<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rapper-director Kanye West launching adult entertainment studio, Yeezy Porn<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writer-director Aaron Sorkin is planning an antidisinformation J6 movie that is also a sequel to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Social Network<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> star Chris Pratt and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger, author of the book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gift of Forgiveness:<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inspiring Stories from Those Who Have Overcome the Unforgivable<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, have torn down the architecturally significant modernist Zimmerman House in Brentwood, built 1950. The couple purchased the house for $12.5 million and will replace it with a 15,000-square-foot \u201cmodern farmhouse\u201d-style mansion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A saggy, older, deflated appearance is characteristic of the emaciation now known in Hollywood as \u201cOzempic face,\u201d named after the prescription weight-loss drug that\u2019s overprescribed in Los Angeles. Using too much of it too quickly is causing an endemic zombielike look, with sunken eyes and gaunt cheeks<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things Change<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> writer-director David Mamet insists his two actor daughters, Zosia and Clara, are not nepo babies, because learning from being on set earned them a spot in the bigs.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey haven\u2019t benefited from any type of privilege,\u201d he says<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writer-director-actor Ben Stiller announces he was shocked no one liked <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoolander 2<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The comedy sequel came out in 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lucasfilm has partnered with a dairy company to make and sell <em>Star Wars<\/em> Blue Milk. Formerly only available at Disney theme parks, the liquid food product will be sold in grocery stores and through DoorDash<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tram derails at Universal Studios Hollywood as it passes too quickly through the Jurassic Park exhibit. Fifteen injured, some seriously. California Highway Patrol investigating.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Anika Jade Levy\u2019s novel <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/books.catapult.co\/books\/flat-earth\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flat Earth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Catapult):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you two want to go for a ride? Boy #I asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What about our phones? Frances asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dry bag, said Boy #2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you know how many debutantes die in jet ski accidents every year? I said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You two don&#8217;t exactly look like you&#8217;re coming over on the Mayflower, said Boy #1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frances happens to be from a prominent Southern family, I informed them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I need to get to a gallery opening. Could you drop us off in Lower Manhattan? Frances asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And they agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Boy #1 pulled his jet ski up, made himself perpendicular to the rocky beach.<\/p>\n<p>Boy #2 kneeled so that Frances could take his hand and step onto his knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I stepped out of my low heels and put them into my purse. I reached out to take the toned arm of Boy #1.<br \/>\nThen the boys pointed their jet skis toward the city.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Cynthia Zarin\u2019s novel <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374610166\/estate\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estate<\/span><\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notes for a novel: he was a man who liked women who did not have children, but now, two of the women he loves have children, while a third wants to have a child. Mine are always with me, their hands on me, even now when she is tired and we are reading in bed, Pom will slip her hand into the neck of my blouse, her lips moving. Even George relaxes as he sits very close to me. Sometimes, very late at night, he comes in when he is home from school and gets into bed with me. Tell me, I say. Listen, Mama, you are not listening, Louie complains. I \u00adremember asking you if Valeria was planning to leave her husband, and you said with irritation, I don\u2019t know, shaking your head. It is not a question I would ask now. The other afternoon when it was getting time for you to leave, I pulled your pink-\u00adand-\u00adwhite striped shirt from the chair and put it on. I was cold. But I had been eyeing that shirt for a while, and wanted my bare skin inside it. For a small man you have broad shoulders, and the shirt was big on me.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndbooks.com\/book\/on-the-calculation-of-volume-book-iii\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On The Calculations of Volume (Book III)<\/span><\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(New Directions)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">translated by Barbara J. Haveland, the third installment in Solvej Balle\u2019s time-loop trilogy:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I shop sporadically. I drift in and out of the house. I pull out the box of provisions from under my bed and find supplies I don\u2019t remember buying. I fetch cans from the kitchen, leeks from the garden and onions from the shed, buy odds and ends on brief trips to town. My day is jumbled, indecisive. I climb out the window or slip silently out the door. I hurry around the side of the house as Thomas comes down the stairs. In a few seconds, I am out of sight.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New books by Solvej Balle, A. S. 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