hatchet job

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The groundbreaking first film - Ricky Gervais's favourite - focused on Tap's disastrous US tour, and the band still brand DiBergi's treatment as "a hatchet job".

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025

Though she was fully aware of the potential controversy of her charges, she never intended for her book to be the hatchet job that many reviewers believed it to be.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022

It didn’t take much to convince Woody Allen defenders that HBO’s four-part docuseries, “Allen v. Farrow,” was a one-sided hatchet job against the revered filmmaker.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2021

Allen, 85, has consistently denied the allegations and on Sunday issued a joint statement with Previn describing the series as a “shoddy hit piece” and “a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2021

Also, unlike my Pathfinder hatchet job, I had the full schematics of the drill.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir