take stock

Now, the bookshop is drenched in mud and they are taking stock of the damage.

“George Clooney playing a movie star taking stock of his life may not sound like a stretch,” writes Glenn Whipp, “but making something look so smooth takes work.”

I started to take stock of where I was.

A movie about a famous and, frankly, selfish actor taking stock late in life feels like the kind of exercise in self-reflective narcissism that, once upon a time in Hollywood, Oscar voters adored.

Days before heading down to San Diego for her first Comic-Con, Brooks sat down to chat and take stock of her journey into a world she once knew very little about.