My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. “What keeps the film humming along as smoothly as it does is the chemistry and charisma of its leads.”Īnd Variety critic Peter Debruge found the movie to be “suave but slight.”Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: “Instead of making you dizzy with the kind of smart double crosses that leave you patting for your wallet on the way out of the theater, it just piles on more and more twists, each more implausible than the last,” Nashawaty wrote. So far, the film is receiving mixed reviews and currently holds a score of 61 out of 100 on review aggregator website Metacritic.Įntertainment Weekly critic Chris Nashawaty gave the movie a B grade, calling it “fairly predictable.” Robbie), who’s also very good with such schemes, shows up while he’s in the middle of a particularly complicated plan involving car racing. What are reviewers saying about the upcoming movie “Focus” starring Will Smith and “The Wolf of Wall Street” actress Margot Robbie?
