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My own reading led me down a narrower and perhaps less nightmarish alley, but one with cautionary implications of its own.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2025 -
These scenarios are both nightmarish and probable.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
26 Oct. 2025
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In many ways, that scene kind of represents the entire show, or at least what our intention was with it, something ridiculous juxtaposed with something, hopefully, very real.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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The idea that trading somehow held it back is ridiculous.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2025
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Two enemy soldiers are tasked with the farcical mission of guarding a middle-of-nowhere border in the remote desert.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Oct. 2025
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The ending could be wittier, but this is one of the more singular V/H/S entries — for its outlandish effects, its hint of farcical humor, and for how Vigalondo uses the format to indulge one of his favorite themes, the wandering attentions of restless family men. 17.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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In my favorite works of his, like A Case for the Existence of God and A Bright New Boise—a play that has its own surreal dynamic with television screens, which play images of hell in the middle of a big-box store—Hunter locates an unnerving mysticism in between the atoms of the hyper-real.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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But Terrifier 2 mostly uses those details as pillars to prop up one surreal, splattery set piece after another.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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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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College football twitter aligned itself in Manning’s corner after The Athletic promoted a story with a ludicrous headline suggesting Manning is the first flop in college football history.—
Blake Toppmeyer,
USA TODAY,
9 Oct. 2025
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Any insightful commentary on the 1% protecting themselves is rendered rote with a wimpy, ludicrous dénouement.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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The photographs became tableaux, dreamlike reconstructions of youth and landscape.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
18 Oct. 2025
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Following a young woman navigating life after growing up in an orphanage, the film transforms her shrinking apartment into a dreamlike maze of memory and loss, using striking visual metaphors to explore belonging, self-worth, and the fragile hope of starting over.—
Essie Assibu,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Branded as Fast-XP, short for Fast Experience, these models push shoe design beyond legal limits, into what many considered laughable extremes.—
Cory Smith,
Outside,
25 Oct. 2025
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This is the kind of overwrought language that even sympathetic readers like me find laughable.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Alice-in-Wonderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Alice-in-Wonderland. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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