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Recent Examples of melodrama
Via visual gags, a cast of gifted comic actors and a script that pulls both from ’80s and ’90s TV movies and screen classics like Suddenly, Last Summer and The Children’s Hour, Maddie’s Secret straddles the line between comedy and melodrama, creating a wholly unique cinematic experience.
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Sep. 2025
With its calculatedly severe form, the film both distills and extends melodrama to avant-garde extremes.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Prime Video’s coming-of-age/love triangle melodrama scored 25 million viewers in its third season’s opening week, Amazon said.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Increasingly dismayed, Dudek hatched a plan that seemed to embody his mix of good intentions, hubris and melodrama.
—Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Sep. 2025
With its calculatedly severe form, the film both distills and extends melodrama to avant-garde extremes.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Prime Video’s coming-of-age/love triangle melodrama scored 25 million viewers in its third season’s opening week, Amazon said.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Increasingly dismayed, Dudek hatched a plan that seemed to embody his mix of good intentions, hubris and melodrama.
—Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodrama
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Advertisement Despite his predominance in the comedy sector, the Emmys presented a high-stakes challenge for an entertainer in the midst of a big push to escape that box.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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The Studio Ends Big Night With Record Wins Seth Rogen closed out a huge night for Apple TV+’s The Studio, which won best comedy.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The heavy-handed sentimentality is a welcome, necessary respite.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Then again, isn't that almost shameless sentimentality what also makes Downton so charming?—
Tom Gliatto,
PEOPLE,
12 Sep. 2025
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Its jacket copy states, With a voice somewhere between Violeta Parra and Bad Bunny, Paulina Flores paints a portrait of a city, a generation, and its distinctive characteristics in this tragicomedy.—
Diana Arterian
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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Told with a classic heist structure and hints of tragicomedy, the story follows an ordinary government employee obsessed with winning the Melate lottery.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
23 July 2025
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McQuarrie’s feats lack the comic timing, composition, and emotionalism that cartoonist-director Brad Bird brought to the thrilling Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Ethan/Tom spider-walking the Burj Khalifa skyscraper and outrunning a dust storm, Paula Patton’s womanly catfight with Léa Seydoux).—
Armond White,
National Review,
23 May 2025
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That form inflects the entire movie—the contours of its dramas, the style of the performances, the earnest emotionalism—while also embodying a noteworthy conceptual vision.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2025
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How that psychodrama played out in the UK could have lessons for the US — not least because Cummings eventually succeeded in undermining Johnson’s political career, ultimately defenestrating the prime minister through relentless briefings and leaks.—
Jim Waterson,
semafor.com,
6 June 2025
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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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The survivors were scattered around the world, and even over a century later, the tragedy still colors their view of their ancestral region.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
21 Sep. 2025
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Republicans, who say school security and improving mental health services are the best way to avoid future tragedies, have firmly opposed any new gun control measures.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
20 Sep. 2025
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Getty Images In the study, researchers crafted job adverts that called for a candidate high in one of six personality factors including honesty-humility, emotionality, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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But the semi-romance that should elevate the plot to a higher level of emotionality has, instead, the opposite effect.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
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The festival sparked two documentaries and a comedic musical is now in the works, starring singer Rita Ora.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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The 40th anniversary of John Farnham’s record-smashing 1986 album Whispering Jack will be celebrated with a new musical.—
Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Melodrama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodrama. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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