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Nathan Rabin is a film critic based out of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and former head writer for [[Website/AVClub The A.V. Club]], the pop-culture sister site of ''Website/TheOnion''. Rabin famously [[TropeNamers coined the term]] ManicPixieDreamGirl in his [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-bataan-death-march-of-whimsy-case-file-1-eliza,15577/ review]] of ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}'', and to [[http://bygonebureau.com/2009/07/27/a-better-kind-of-scum-an-interview-with-nathan-rabin/ a lesser extent,]] [[DiscreditedMeme The]] WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy [[DiscreditedMeme Effect]].

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Nathan Rabin (born April 24, 1976) is a film critic based out of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and former head writer for [[Website/AVClub The A.V. Club]], the pop-culture sister site of ''Website/TheOnion''. Rabin famously [[TropeNamers coined the term]] ManicPixieDreamGirl in his [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-bataan-death-march-of-whimsy-case-file-1-eliza,15577/ review]] of ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}'', and to [[http://bygonebureau.com/2009/07/27/a-better-kind-of-scum-an-interview-with-nathan-rabin/ a lesser extent,]] [[DiscreditedMeme The]] WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy [[DiscreditedMeme Effect]].
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'''Bibliography:'''
* ''The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture'' (2009)
* ''My Year of Flops:'' (2010): A book version of his popular ''A.V. Club'' column, including several entries that are exclusive to it.
* ''Weird Al: The Book'' (2012): The official biography of Music/WeirdAlYankovic, co-written with the man himself (in fact, Yankovic personally selected Rabin for the project)
* ''You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me'' (2013): A book about many things, chiefly about covering the fanbases of Music/InsaneClownPosse and Music/{{Phish}}, but also Rabin's impending marriage and his near-bankruptcy while writing the book.
* ''The Weird Accordion to Al'': A song by song analysis of every officially released "Weird Al" song. An upcoming project that he will first write on Nathan Rabin's Happy Place before collecting in an e-book.

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Rabin's autobiography, ''The Big Rewind'', was published in 2009. A book based on ''My Year of Flops'' (which has long since passed the single year that Rabin planned for the feature to last) was released in 2010. Through The A.V. Club, he is one of many co-writers of ''Inventory'', which compiles over 100 lists.

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Rabin's autobiography, ''The Big Rewind'', was published in 2009. A book based on ''My Year of Flops'' (which has long since passed the single year that Rabin planned for the feature to last) last, and was later relaunched as ''My World of Flops'' covering all types of media) was released in 2010. Through The A.V. Club, he is one of many co-writers of ''Inventory'', which compiles over 100 lists.


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In April 2017, Rabin launched his own personal website, [[https://www.nathanrabin.com/ Nathan Rabin's Happy Place]], which features various pop culture columns and features. Following ''The A.V. Club'''s cancellation of ''My World of Flops'' the next month, he [[https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2017/5/1/big-announcement-like-huge announced]] the column would be continuing on Happy Place.

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Nathan Rabin is a film critic based out of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and former head writer for [[Website/AVClub The A.V. Club]], the pop-culture sister site of ''Website/TheOnion''. Rabin famously [[TropeNamers coined the term]] ManicPixieDreamGirl in his [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-bataan-death-march-of-whimsy-case-file-1-eliza,15577/ review]] of ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}'', and to a lesser extent [[http://bygonebureau.com/2009/07/27/a-better-kind-of-scum-an-interview-with-nathan-rabin/ popularized the term]] [[DiscreditedMeme The]] WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy [[DiscreditedMeme Effect]].

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Nathan Rabin is a film critic based out of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and former head writer for [[Website/AVClub The A.V. Club]], the pop-culture sister site of ''Website/TheOnion''. Rabin famously [[TropeNamers coined the term]] ManicPixieDreamGirl in his [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-bataan-death-march-of-whimsy-case-file-1-eliza,15577/ review]] of ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}'', and to a lesser extent to [[http://bygonebureau.com/2009/07/27/a-better-kind-of-scum-an-interview-with-nathan-rabin/ popularized the term]] a lesser extent,]] [[DiscreditedMeme The]] WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy [[DiscreditedMeme Effect]].
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Nathan Rabin is a film critic based out of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and former head writer for [[Website/AVClub The A.V. Club]], the pop-culture sister site of ''Website/TheOnion''. Rabin famously [[TropeNamers coined the term]] ManicPixieDreamGirl in his [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-bataan-death-march-of-whimsy-case-file-1-eliza,15577/ review]] of ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}''.

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Nathan Rabin is a film critic based out of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and former head writer for [[Website/AVClub The A.V. Club]], the pop-culture sister site of ''Website/TheOnion''. Rabin famously [[TropeNamers coined the term]] ManicPixieDreamGirl in his [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-bataan-death-march-of-whimsy-case-file-1-eliza,15577/ review]] of ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}''.
''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}'', and to a lesser extent [[http://bygonebureau.com/2009/07/27/a-better-kind-of-scum-an-interview-with-nathan-rabin/ popularized the term]] [[DiscreditedMeme The]] WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy [[DiscreditedMeme Effect]].
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Nathan Rabin is a film critic based out of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and former head writer for The A.V. Club, the pop-culture sister site of ''Website/TheOnion''. Rabin famously [[TropeNamers coined the term]] ManicPixieDreamGirl in his [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-bataan-death-march-of-whimsy-case-file-1-eliza,15577/ review]] of ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}''.

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Nathan Rabin is a film critic based out of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and former head writer for [[Website/AVClub The A.V. Club, Club]], the pop-culture sister site of ''Website/TheOnion''. Rabin famously [[TropeNamers coined the term]] ManicPixieDreamGirl in his [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-bataan-death-march-of-whimsy-case-file-1-eliza,15577/ review]] of ''Film/{{Elizabethtown}}''.
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Rabin was one of six longstanding A.V. Club writers (including editor in chief Keith Phipps and film editor Scott Tobias) to leave the site between late 2012 and Spring 2013, for Pitchfork Media's film website ''The Dissolve''. He continues to look for failed flicks in [[http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/ "Forgotbusters"]], which compiles movies that grossed enough for the yearly top 25 but have either worsened their reputations or been forgotten. Around May 2015, he left The Dissolve and went freelance, writing for websites like ''Slate'' and ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' and even restarting ''My World of Flops'' in June 2015.

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Rabin was one of six longstanding A.V. Club writers (including editor in chief Keith Phipps and film editor Scott Tobias) to leave the site between late 2012 and Spring 2013, for Pitchfork Media's film website ''The Dissolve''. He continues to look for failed flicks in [[http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/ "Forgotbusters"]], which compiles movies that grossed enough for the yearly top 25 but have either worsened their reputations or been forgotten. Around May 2015, he left The Dissolve and went freelance, writing for websites like ''Slate'' and ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' and even restarting ''My World of Flops'' in June 2015.
2015. He also continues to search for cinematic oddballs in Decider's ''[[http://decider.com/absolute-beginners/ Absolute Beginners]]'' "an ongoing column devoted to movies streaming online that movie stars and top directors made before becoming household names," and Rotten Tomatoes' ''[[http://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/sub-cult-grandmas-boy/ Sub-Cult]]'', "a series devoted to weirdly infectious cinematic oddities on the cusp of becoming the cult films of tomorrow."
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