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she tried to dig up any information she could for the report on sharks
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The director uses her loose crime movie template to chronicle a place still trapped in its troubled past — a past that gets dug up like all the ancient artifacts excavated by Veska and her crew — while facing a future of inertia and decline.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2026
There’s also a sand pit where children can dig up replicas of pygmy mammoth bones.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
Veska’s job digging up the past literalizes the arc of her character during this stay in Matochina.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
The team’s goal was to dig up the regolith and then deposit it in the form of a long berm, a challenge that mimics NASA’s future needs to build up protective walls on the moon’s surface to keep infrastructure safe when rockets launch and land, kicking up lunar dust.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 May 2026
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2026
There’s also a sand pit where children can dig up replicas of pygmy mammoth bones.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
Veska’s job digging up the past literalizes the arc of her character during this stay in Matochina.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
The team’s goal was to dig up the regolith and then deposit it in the form of a long berm, a challenge that mimics NASA’s future needs to build up protective walls on the moon’s surface to keep infrastructure safe when rockets launch and land, kicking up lunar dust.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 May 2026
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“Dig up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dig%20up. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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