And a road win without Pat Surtain II would be the surest hallelujah yet.
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Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
1 Nov. 2025
There’d be a brief silence, before all the voices flooded in and the whole circle would catch fire like an unending wall of the most resounding hallelujah imaginable.
During our time there, we were treated to a three-course chef’s tasting menu that was a paean to the summer; think a profusion of tomatoes, stone fruit, local soft cheeses, and edible flowers.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Sep. 2026
After replaying Colbert’s Emmy acceptance speech, Kimmel playfully lambasted his friend for giving a sweet paean to his wife, Evie, which made all the other late night hosts look bad with their own wives.
Williams intermittently cuts to ominous exterior shots of a dark church and layers in a score of hymnal lament.
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Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
15 Sep. 2026
That ambiguity is echoed in Banks’ score, which takes on the tone of a lament and a celebration, frustration and hope, struggle and liberation, the quest for transcendence in the face of the challenges posed by daunting inequities.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Aug. 2026
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