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'The Devil Wears Prada 2' review: smart, stylish sequel
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'The Devil Wears Prada 2' review: smart, stylish sequel

NME·Nick Levine·about 1 month ago
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a  sequel for summer blockbuster season? Groundbreaking. But this follow-up to The Devil Wears Prada – which grossed a hefty $326 million and featured an Oscar-nominated Meryl Streep – actually feels quite exciting. If anything, David Frankel’s 2006 adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s salty roman à clef has grown in stature over the past two decades. Biting one-liners like “by all means move at a glacial pace” and “details of your incompetence do not interest me” have entered the pop cultural lexicon. Meanwhile, revisionist thinkpieces have argued that the real villain of the piece wasn’t Streep’s Miranda Priestly, the fearsome magazine editor who terrorised Anne Hathaway ‘s unlikely assistant Andy, but Adrian Grenier’s negging boyfriend Nate. Even Vogue boss Anna Wintour, whom Miranda was allegedly based on, has called the film “a fair shot”. It helps that pretty much everyone – except for Grenier, of course – has returned for The Devil Wears Prada 2 .…

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