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Miranda Priestly is still my hero

New Statesman·Susie Goldsbrough·24 days ago
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20th Century Fox Some things are just too good to improve on.  The Devil Wears Prada 2  may have made almost $250m in its opening weekend but if the original film was Prada quality, the sequel is more like a Camden market knock-off. Plenty has already been written about its problems: the lack of a memorable villain (yet more iterations of evil tech bro  Succession -knock-off doesn’t count); a tone that ricocheted drunkenly between the righteous (“journalism fucking matters!”), the soppy and the almost accidentally bleak (for the death of journalism is, well, quite sad); an alarmingly over-caffeinated performance by Anne Hathaway; and don’t even get me started on her inexplicably Australian love interest.  So it was interesting how few dedicated fans of the first film – either at my packed opening night showing in Brixton, or those I’ve spoken to since – seemed to care. The atmosphere in the cinema and spilling out onto the street afterwards was warm.…

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