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Adjective
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Here, the great theatrical advocate of wisdom-through-argument admits that argument itself has treacherous ramifications.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025 -
One idea floated by that distributor is to simply lengthen theatrical windows.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
18 Sep. 2025
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As bills were called up for debate, members lined up to ask questions about them, and the questions were often laden with histrionic and hyperbolic language.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Populated by unhinged men and masochistic women, and punctuated by fiery, increasingly histrionic set pieces, Smoke fails to reconcile its mood of noirish nihilism with its efforts at social commentary.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 June 2025
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There’s an awkward mix of comic highjinks and violence, melodramatic moments, dead spots and repetition.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Sep. 2025
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As is, the film is somehow both glancing and melodramatic, a strange and underwhelming cocktail of blasé Euro sleekness and TV-movie drama.—
Richard Lawson,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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Injury watch Justin Jefferson’s hammy will make its 2025 debut Monday night, and Vikings fans should not be expecting an all-world opener.—
Kevin Cusick,
Twin Cities,
7 Sep. 2025
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The military, led by an officer known only as the Major (Mark Hamill, the right amount of hammy), remains in control and supervises the Walk.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The most dramatic of these are the annual benchmark revisions, which align the monthly survey data with the more comprehensive Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), a near-complete count of jobs derived from unemployment insurance tax records.—
Jeff Gapusan,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement But when Episode 10 ended with Conrad boarding a plane to Paris in pursuit of Belly, fans began gearing up for a dramatic—and possibly heartbreaking—finale.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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And even though there are stretches of stagey-sounding expository dialogue, the story manages to wheel along at a clip.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Fence suffers from dialogue overload and a somewhat stagy mise-en-scène, although those elements occasionally yield strong sequences fraught with unsettledness, if not outright hostility, when the drama finally boils over.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Actorly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actorly. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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