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Ms. Rinehart, whose podcast, “The Female Body Politic,” spotlights women’s history, canters through Rankin’s career with the same drive that Rankin exhibited, batting away critics and rarely acknowledging the complexity of federal politics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Another underrated movie from Frears, this satire canters enjoyably through the world of English middle-class hypocrisy and vanity.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2020

"Someone like Steven Moffat does it really cleverly in Sherlock and canters off with the idea."

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2018

Directed by Steven Spielberg from a script by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, “The Post” canters along with crisp pacing and straightforward, unfussy clarity, its two icons-playing-icons bolstered by a superb cast of supporting players.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2017

It is ten forty-five when Booth pulls back on the reins once again and canters up to the wooden drawbridge by the Navy Yard.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly