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The trailers lean hard into cinephile in-jokes, typically riffing on film history before colliding those references with the realities of running a defiantly non-mainstream festival.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
The musical, brimming over with Broadway in-jokes and phallic humor, doesn’t build so much as whip itself into a frenzy.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Fuentes came of age in an ecosystem of edgelord posting and trolling in-jokes.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Correcting The Corrections has since become something of an in-joke for those of us inclined toward prestige drama—on page, and onscreen.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
The musical, brimming over with Broadway in-jokes and phallic humor, doesn’t build so much as whip itself into a frenzy.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Fuentes came of age in an ecosystem of edgelord posting and trolling in-jokes.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Correcting The Corrections has since become something of an in-joke for those of us inclined toward prestige drama—on page, and onscreen.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for in-joke
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“In-joke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-joke. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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