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The legendary David Lynch announced himself to the world with this startling, nightmarish debut feature.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Jan. 2026 -
This was the nightmarish miracle of the castrato, whose bell-clear tones were immaculately preserved but oddly flavored, like butter buried in a peat bog.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Drinks come in ridiculous glasses—like a copper bathtub complete with a rubber ducky—the music is blasting, and the entire restaurant is there to have a good time.—
Molly Barstein,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2026
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Like, who’s being the most ridiculous?—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
1 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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Senegal stormed off the field in protest at a penalty awarded against them before returning to beat hosts Morocco 1-0 after extra time and win the Africa Cup of Nations amid farcical scenes in Sunday’s final.—
Kayla Hayempour,
NBC news,
19 Jan. 2026
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Babu describes their first day filming as surreal.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2026
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In many neighborhoods of Chicago, the scene was surreal early that Groundhog Day morning.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
2 Feb. 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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Until this point, Bridgerton’s domestic staff have mostly been comic relief used to gently poke at this high society’s more ludicrous members.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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The idea a side captained by Cristian Romero, who is expected to play an important part in defending the World Cup with champions Argentina this summer, and including talents such as Micky van de Ven and Xavi Simons, could be relegated sounds ludicrous.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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Shame and Money does have striking, violent moments towards the end, but Morina also leaves us wondering if those are actual incidents or something more symbolic and dreamlike.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2026
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Later novels routinely took inspiration from family members or former or current lovers; the 1980 novel that baffled Frank Kermode is a dreamlike fable about a man guiltily trying to have an extramarital affair.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Kataib militiamen tried to come up with solutions for their vulnerability, but their countermeasures were laughable.—
Elizabeth Tsurkov,
The Atlantic,
11 Jan. 2026
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Trump’s notion of giving Americans $1,500 to buy their own insurance is laughable.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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