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The movie includes intense domestic abuse (verbal, physical and emotional), gun violence, death and descriptions of patricide.
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Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
It’s done in the saddest way, with the original sin of patricide.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
This audacious patricide led to her election as head of the party.
—Constanze Stelzenmüller, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
The patricide was covered in lurid detail in the press.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
Within her extended Olympian family – forged in patricide and infidelity – she’s known as the trashy one.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 May 2023
Of course, the paradox doesn’t apply just to instances of grand-patricide, but to all hypothetical situations where a time traveler goes back to prevent something from occurring.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
After all, Kendall’s methods since his press-conference patricide at the end of Season 2 have come straight out of Logan’s playbook—and this season has delighted in the parallels.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2021
And Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) kills the planet that is his father - a private Ragnarok that's also a righteous patricide.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 June 2021
Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
It’s done in the saddest way, with the original sin of patricide.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
This audacious patricide led to her election as head of the party.
—Constanze Stelzenmüller, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
The patricide was covered in lurid detail in the press.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
Within her extended Olympian family – forged in patricide and infidelity – she’s known as the trashy one.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 May 2023
Of course, the paradox doesn’t apply just to instances of grand-patricide, but to all hypothetical situations where a time traveler goes back to prevent something from occurring.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
After all, Kendall’s methods since his press-conference patricide at the end of Season 2 have come straight out of Logan’s playbook—and this season has delighted in the parallels.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2021
And Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) kills the planet that is his father - a private Ragnarok that's also a righteous patricide.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 June 2021
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“Patricide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patricide. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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