Who could watch this farrago and still maintain that travel broadens the mind?

NEWYORKER: Jumper

But the world's Friedmanites have waged a relentless guerrilla war against the idea, denouncing it as a farrago of value-destroying nonsense.

ECONOMIST: Attitudes to business

That would certainly be more tranquil than this farrago, which allows no sequence, however fleeting or slight, to pass without a crunching musical accompaniment.

NEWYORKER: This Means War

"Love's Labour's Lost" is the most extravagantly artificial of Shakespeare's comedies, a pun-encrusted farrago of frenetic wordplay that lacks the emotional immediacy of his better-known plays.

WSJ: Star-Crossed Teens Clueless in Verona

As an irritating nebbish named Kleinman, who gets caught up in a search for a mad killer, he anchors a farrago of generic art-house themes and personalities.

NEWYORKER: Shadows and Fog

Piece by piece, Mr Shapiro builds the case the contemporary witnesses, the tracks left by printing houses and theatrical practice, the thousand details that show, apart from anything else, how unnecessary the whole farrago has been.

ECONOMIST: The man and his pen

Three fine actors were lured into this farrago: Ewan McGregor plays the young Obi-Wan Kenobi, Liam Neeson is his Jedi mentor, Natalie Portman plays a teen-age queen, and all of them look as if they were recently abused by robots.

NEWYORKER: Star Wars: Episode I��The Phantom Menace

McQueen, aided by his screenwriter, Abi Morgan, has stitched together a bespoke idea of the city rather than the place itself, in the same way that he frames erotic pursuit more as a neat conceptual art work than as the farrago of lunging, dithering, yearning, and near-farce in which most of society wallows.

NEWYORKER: Hot and Bothered