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But even here — under a tangle of rope and lace, designed by Rajha Shakiry, that seems to literalize the World Wide Web — the argot of social media invades.
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Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
Or to literalize the notion that, duh, relationships can be scary?
—Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2023
It’s a haunting image that suggests the way the father’s hopes, and perhaps his failures, may be borne into the future — a future O’Hara and the scenic designer, Clint Ramos, literalize in a devastating coup de théâtre at the end.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
Men is the kind of movie to literalize those demons, mostly in the form of a man, performed by surprisingly malleable Rory Kinnear, who plays a cruel, spooky trick on her.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2022
The camera darts between the lovers’ angry, exhausted faces in a flurry of slamming edits and chin-severing closeups, as if to literalize the idea that something between them has broken.
—Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022
After a recording session with Jay-Z in which West talks his way onto a song, Simmons prompts Jay-Z for a quote, asking him to literalize his co-sign of West for the camera.
—New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
Director Zambello doesn’t literalize the wondrous transformation at hand (wondrous or corny, depending on your tastes).
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2021
But the film’s central effort, sometimes effectively, other times programmatically, to literalize this confusion.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2021
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Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
Or to literalize the notion that, duh, relationships can be scary?
—Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2023
It’s a haunting image that suggests the way the father’s hopes, and perhaps his failures, may be borne into the future — a future O’Hara and the scenic designer, Clint Ramos, literalize in a devastating coup de théâtre at the end.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2022
Men is the kind of movie to literalize those demons, mostly in the form of a man, performed by surprisingly malleable Rory Kinnear, who plays a cruel, spooky trick on her.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2022
The camera darts between the lovers’ angry, exhausted faces in a flurry of slamming edits and chin-severing closeups, as if to literalize the idea that something between them has broken.
—Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2022
After a recording session with Jay-Z in which West talks his way onto a song, Simmons prompts Jay-Z for a quote, asking him to literalize his co-sign of West for the camera.
—New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
Director Zambello doesn’t literalize the wondrous transformation at hand (wondrous or corny, depending on your tastes).
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2021
But the film’s central effort, sometimes effectively, other times programmatically, to literalize this confusion.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2021
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“Literalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literalize. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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