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Sprawling, fearsome scenes of battle unfurl with a nightmarish, exhaustively detailed authenticity.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
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But somewhere along the way, mostly in recent years, the lamb cake took a weird turn as people began posting photos of their scary, creepy, nightmarish lamb cake fails.—
Lisa Gutierrez
April 3,
Kansas City Star,
3 Apr. 2026
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Because these interviews are edited and condensed, the parts of it that get cut out will retroactively make those parts of this present moment sort of ridiculous.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Recently, despite their consistent and ridiculous denials, it was found that Iran had built numerous missiles capable of reaching all over Europe.—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Apr. 2026
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Morris lets his subjects' personalities sparkle, weaving a wild farcical tale about the mundane that is believable but just weird enough to stand out.—
Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Feb. 2026
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Each member of the Flynn family is given demons to fight, and each has their own farcical plotline that leads them through crisis to a relatively happy outcome.—
Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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This is the sort of movie that thinks nothing of dropping in a human-centipede roundabout of bootlicking and the surreal sight of a PR guru’s head turning into a video screen.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2026
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The immersive-entertainment company’s alien theme fits well within the surreal sculptures at its Denver outpost as designers and models take the stage at its Perplexiplex venue for a night of beautiful and bizarre creations.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
26 Mar. 2026
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Those who value and respect America but couldn’t find their way through the Kafkaesque immigration system deserve a chance to rectify their situation.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
10 Aug. 2025
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In a Kafkaesque twist, Trump’s chart assigns Eswatini the lowest possible (10 percent) reciprocal tariff, despite the fact the nation applies the same external tariffs as Lesotho.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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Drawing parallels between this unpopular war and World War II is ludicrous and insulting.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
2 Apr. 2026
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This is an entirely false, even ludicrous threat.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
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Their romance emerges alongside the dreamlike atmosphere of the mysterious circus, their illusions becoming a way to communicate with each other.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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What follows is a sweetly oblique, even dreamlike interlude of recuperation.—
Jake Coyle,
Boston Herald,
3 Apr. 2026
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Republicans who backed the laughable and deservedly unsuccessful 2021 recall of Newsom won’t have a leg to stand on in blasting this as an undemocratic power play.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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When ChatGPT couldn’t reliably add and subtract, let alone search the web, the notion that AI programs would soon be able to do world-class machine-learning research seemed laughable.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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